Sparks fly at heated Rakon meeting as Robinson eyes chair

Sparks fly at heated Rakon meeting as Robinson eyes chair
Brent Robinson doubled down on claims of over-governance. (Image: Supplied)
Gregor Thompson
Former Rakon boss Brent Robinson has called for an extraordinary meeting to elect a “truly independent board” in a move he hopes could give him the chair. Two camps, split between independent directors Lorraine Witten, Lisbeth Jacobs, Mark Bregman and Jon Raby, and non-independent directors Robinson and Jung Meng Tseng, went head to head at the annual meeting on Friday. Robinson, the company’s former chief executive and former chief technology officer, used the podium to outline how the company had been hamstrung.&ld...

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