'It’s like a marriage': Air NZ’s Foran and Walsh on how the CEO and chair work together

'It’s like a marriage': Air NZ’s Foran and Walsh on how the CEO and chair work together
MC, the Institute of Directors' Kirsten Patterson, left, with Therese Walsh and Greg Foran. (Image: Mark Russell, IoD)
Ella Somers
From March 2020 until recently, Air New Zealand chief executive Greg Foran was at the top of Therese Walsh’s call list.Flicking through the recent calls on the phone of Air NZ’s board chair would normally bring up Greg, Greg, her Mum, Greg, one of her children and Greg again.But now that’s all changed, she said.“The day I realised New Zealand was in recovery mode was the day I couldn't find Greg in my recent calls,” she told attendees at this year’s Institute of Directors conference.A delicate relationshi...

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