Christchurch City Holdings CEO Tim Boyd's resignation brought forward, salary shock

Christchurch City Holdings CEO Tim Boyd's resignation brought forward, salary shock
Tim Boyd resigned as chief executive of CCHL on Sept 7. (Image: CCHL)
Oliver Lewis
The controversial former chief executive of Christchurch City Holdings Limited (CCHL) was on a base salary of $430,000, significantly more than his predecessor, and received an undisclosed settlement as he left under a cloud.Tim Boyd resigned on Sept 7 after just six months in the role, a brief tenure that included a period where he went on leave while an investigation was carried out into communications between him and the board, as CCHL has described it. A BusinessDesk investigation into his background established the Australian had mult...

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