Steven Joyce, Jim Grenon join NZME board as Stuff deal casts shadow over shareholders' meeting

Steven Joyce, Jim Grenon join NZME board as Stuff deal casts shadow over shareholders' meeting
13% NZME shareholder and board disrupter Jim Grenon makes his pitch for election to the board. (Image: NZME)
Pattrick Smellie
NZME shareholders got to meet their company’s board disrupter, Jim Grenon, in the flesh for the first time at the company’s June 3 annual meeting.The normally publicity-shy Canadian investor, who described himself as “a bit of a ghost on Google”, started by making the point that the experience was new territory for him, despite a long career in corporate life in Canada and the United States.“I’ve never once had to pitch myself to the meeting in 50 years,” he said at an annual meeting that had been postp...

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