End of an era as John Hawkins bows out as NZSA's chair

End of an era as John Hawkins bows out as NZSA's chair
Jenny Ruth
By Jenny Ruth Sept. 6 (BusinessDesk) - Nobody can doubt that John Hawkins’ nine-year reign as the New Zealand Shareholders’ Association chair transformed a rag-tag ginger group led by its flamboyant founder, Bruce Sheppard, into a highly respected professional organisation that listed companies ignore at their peril. Sheppard, famous for wearing a Viking helmet to various AGMs, started NZSA in 2000 and Hawkins says nobody was more surprised than him that he became Sheppard’s successor. Sheppard had to step down because he had been shoulde...

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