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David Smol

NZ Growth Capital Partners

Chair

  • Previously in a number of governance and consulting roles, including in energy, health, land transport, housing, commercialisation and economic development.
  • Inaugural chief executive of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment 2012-2017 and before that chief executive of its predecessor, the Ministry of Economic Development from 2008.
  • MPhil in economics from Cambridge University, and made a Companion of the Queen’s Service Order in 2018.

Career

Contact Energy
Director
Oct 2018 - Present
Capital & Coast DHB
Chairperson
Dec 2019 - Present
Hutt Valley DHB
Chairperson
Dec 2019 - Present
NZ Growth Capital Partners
Chair
Dec 2020 - Present
The Co-operative Bank
Director
Mar 2021 - Present

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James Pinner
James Pinner
Chief executive (acting)
NZ Growth Capital Partners
Tana van Loggerenberg
Tana van Loggerenberg
Chief financial officer and chief operating officer
NZ Growth Capital Partners
Elena Trout
Elena Trout
Chair
Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority / Te Tari Tiaki Pūngao
Fraser Gardiner
Fraser Gardiner
Chief financial officer
Earthquake Commission / Kōmihana Rūwhenua
Vic Crone
Vic Crone
Chief executive
Callaghan Innovation
Hamiora Bowkett
Hamiora Bowkett
Hautū (deputy secretary), strategy, governance and the public sector performance
Ministry of Māori Development / Te Puni Kōkiri

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The Co-operative Bank
NZ Growth Capital Partners
Contact Energy
Hutt Valley DHB
Capital & Coast DHB

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