Investor Centre Leadership & Governance

Board of Directors

Mark Dewdney

Independent Non-Executive Chair

Catriona Macleod

Independent Non-Executive Director

Chiong Yong Tiong

Non-Executive Non-Independent Director

Jack Porus

Non-Executive Director

Yuen Carol Chen

Non-Executive Director

Victoria Taylor

Non-Executive Independent Director

Paul Munro

Independent Non-Executive Director

Paul Munro

BCom, FCA, CFInstD

Mr Paul Munro became a Director of New Zealand King Salmon March of 2024. Paul brings over 25 years of financial and commercial experience across a broad cross section of companies and industries including a 24 year career as a Corporate Finance Partner at Deloitte and six years as CEO of a publicly owned investment company which managed a portfolio of commercial infrastructure investments. Paul has significant experience in capital structuring and funding of infrastructure projects, investment management, strategy development and performance oversight, mergers and acquisitions, NZX listed market transactions including IPOs and debt capital market bond issues.
Paul also has over 10 years’ experience as an Independent Director with his Board experience spanning a range of entities and sectors. Paul is a current or former Director of various commercial entities including Electricity Ashburton, Orion New Zealand, Toitu Envirocare, Central Plains Water, and Tait Communications.
Paul is a Chartered Accountant Fellow (FCA) of Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand (CAANZ) and a Chartered Fellow (CFInstD) of the New Zealand Institute of Directors (IoD).

Chiong Yong Tiong

MCom, BCom

Chiong Yong Tiong became a Director of New Zealand King Salmon in June 2019. Mr Tiong brings extensive experience in timber industries and property development companies. He is Managing Director of Timbergrow Limited and Maraetai Land Development Limited. Mr Tiong is also a Director of property development company Neil Corporation Limited and the Executive Director of Oregon Group Limited. He also holds a Masters in Finance and Economics from Monash University (Melbourne).

Yuen Carol Chen

BBA

Carol Chen became a Director of New Zealand King Salmon in November 2021. She is the Deputy General Manager of Corporate Strategy and Development at China Resources Enterprise (CRE) with responsibility for mergers and acquisitions initiation and execution. Since joining CRE in 2009 she has participated in various key transactions including the acquisition of Kingway Brewery, joint venture formation for the beverage business and the retail business with Tesco, the privatisation of non-beer businesses, the share buyback of China Resources Snow, as well as minority investments overseas. Carol joined China Resources Group in 2000. Carol holds a bachelor’s degree of Business Administration from the RMIT University, Australia.

Jack Porus

BCom, LLB

Jack became a Director of New Zealand King Salmon in 2008. Jack is a consultant with Glaister Ennor and has practised in all areas of property law, commercial law, trusts and estate planning. Jack is currently a Director of Neil Corporation Limited, Norfolk Financial Management Limited, Ernslaw One Limited as well as other substantial private businesses. He is a trustee of numerous personal and charitable trusts. Jack is a nominated appointee for major New Zealand King Salmon shareholder Oregon Group.

Catriona Macleod

BSc, GIBio, MSc, PhD, GAICD

Professor Catriona Macleod became a Director of New Zealand King Salmon in 2020. She is a senior scientist with more than 30 years’ experience in marine resource management including water and aquaculture management. Catriona has been a key driver on numerous research projects locally and internationally and multi-sectoral partnerships investigating the environmental and social interactions of aquaculture. Her expertise is frequently sought on marine and coastal environmental issues, and her recommendations have informed regulatory policy and the strategic development of sustainable aquaculture activities in Australia and internationally. She has a keen interest in finding innovative solutions for equitable and sustainable resource management and allocation. She continues to provide advice to government in Australia and internationally, and is a regular expert advisor for the UN FAO.

Mark Dewdney

BMS Waikato

Mr Dewdney joined New Zealand King Salmon as Independent Chairman in June 2023. Mark brings extensive leadership, commercial and governance experience to the role, particularly in the primary sector, and internationally. He has a strong background in agribusiness, international sales and distribution, manufacturing, and supply chain industries. Having had 25 years in executive roles both in New Zealand and Asia, in 2017 he stepped away from Executive roles to commit to a future path in governance.

Mr Dewdney has held executive positions with a range of companies, including Tatua Dairy Co-operative, the NZ Dairy Group and Fonterra, where his last role was as Managing Director for Fonterra Ingredients in Asia. From there he moved to Livestock Improvement Corporation as CEO, before becoming CEO for PGG Wrightson from 2013 – 2017.

Mr Dewdney is currently a Director of The Tatua Dairy Co-operative and Independent Chair of Seeka Limited and Maririe General Partner Limited.

Victoria Taylor

Bcom, PG Management & Leadership

Victoria Taylor became a Director of New Zealand King Salmon in February 2022. Having previously held executive positions at Coca-Cola Oceania, Griffin’s Foods and Goodman Fielder, she has a wealth of experience in consumer branded food and beverage manufacturing organisations. Victoria was also a founder, shareholder and COO of a successful food manufacturing business. She is currently Chair of a privately owned manufacturing entity.

Executive and Senior Leadership Team

Carl Carrington

Chief Executive Officer

Ben Rodgers

Chief Financial Officer

Graeme Tregidga

Chief Commercial Officer

Grant Lovell

General Manager, Aquaculture

Monique Hatfull

Head of Relationships & Communication

Nikki Rackley

General Manager People and Culture

Carl Carrington

MBA (Cranfield), B.Chem.Eng., Stanford ExecEd, NZICD

Carl Carrington joined New Zealand King Salmon in August of 2023. As the former Chief Executive of Moana New Zealand from 2012 to 2018, Carl has since then had a broad governance career primarily in the food & beverage and seafood sectors. Prior to this, he held senior leadership roles with DB Breweries, Heineken-Lion Australia, Lion Nathan Australia and Vietnam Breweries.
He is a passionate New Zealander who believes strongly in the value of the Aotearoa New Zealand provenance story underpinned by world-leading product and service quality, resource sustainability and workplace safety.
Carl has an MBA from the Cranfield School of Management, a Bachelor of Chemical & Materials Engineering and he has completed professional development training through Stanford Business School. He is a Chartered Member of the NZ Institute of Directors.

Ben Rodgers

BBS, PGDipAcc

Ben joined New Zealand King Salmon in September 2021. Ben is responsible for all finance related activities, in addition to providing support across the wider corporate office with a focus of increasing collaboration throughout the organisation. Ben has had a career of almost 20 years in finance, most recently with leadership roles at Kiwibank and Z Energy. Ben has also gained valuable overseas experience with Telefonica UK.

Graeme Tregidga

Graeme joined New Zealand King Salmon in 2004 as Sales Manager, then in 2012 he was appointed General Manager Sales with responsibility for developing and implementing NZKS’ domestic and international sales strategy and leading the international sales team. His previous roles include 16 years in the horticulture industry with various leadership positions across processing, international and domestic sales and general management. In November 2022, Graeme was appointed Acting Chief Executive Officer of New Zealand King Salmon, with overall responsibility for ensuring the organisation is managed at the highest strategic level. Following on from this, Graeme was appointed Chief Commercial Officer in October of 2023.

Grant Lovell

BSc

Grant first joined New Zealand King Salmon in 1997 as a Hatchery Technician. After a stint working in Australia, he returned in 2012 as Aquaculture Production Manager and was appointed General Manager Aquaculture in 2020. Grant has overall responsibility for freshwater and seawater operations including management of breeding programmes, fish health and harvest, in addition to feed and production planning. Grant holds a Bachelor of Science in Animal Biology from the University of Canterbury.

Monique Hatfull

MA EnvStud, BA Anthropology

Monique joined New Zealand King Salmon in September 2023. Monique (Ngāti Whātua) has a career background in Māori resource management, environmental studies and aquaculture. Her most recent experience includes four years with the Ministry of Primary Industries Aquaculture Directorate, which involved delivering the Crown’s aquaculture settlement obligations to iwi, inputting into and enhancing the Resource Management system, and staying connected across a range of partners and stakeholders. She will bring this experience to her new role with New Zealand King Salmon, which will focus on building strong and positive relationships, coordinating community sponsorships and events, and managing strategic communications.

Nikki Rackley

Bcom

Nikki first joined New Zealand King Salmon in 2015 as an HR Advisor, leaving in 2018 to join Port Nelson. She returned to NZKS in February 2021 as a Senior Business Partner, People & Culture, before being promoted to Head of People & Culture in May 2021. Nikki is responsible for the Human Resources function and delivery of services to the Company. She leads the management and implementation of HR strategy, policy, practices, and procedures. Prior to NZKS, Nikki worked in Private Equity and HR in London.

Governance

The Board of New Zealand King Salmon Investments Limited (the Company) is committed to ensuring that the Company meets best practice governance principles and maintains the highest ethical standards. The Corporate Governance Statement provides an overview of the Company’s governance framework. It is structured to follow the NZX Corporate Governance Code (NZX Code) and disclose practices relating to the NZX Code’s recommendations.

The Board believes our governance structures and in particular our remuneration approach meets our strategic objectives. In forming our conclusions we have sought external feedback from shareholders and advisors to challenge our thinking and validate our findings, which we have appreciated.

For more details, please refer here

Corporate Governance Code

The Board of New Zealand King Salmon Investments Limited (the Company) has adopted the following Corporate Governance Code (the Code) on 1 July 2019 which comprises the Board Charter, Board Committee charters and other governance policies. The Board aims to achieve the highest standards of governance. The Code has been established to promote a culture that ensures commitment to and compliance with essential governance principles is at the heart of the Company’s business practices.

The Company is listed on NZX’s Main Board and on ASX as a Foreign Exempt Listing. The Foreign Exempt Listing status requires the Company to comply with the NZX Main Board Listing Rules and regulations (the NZX Rules), and only a small number of ASX’s Listing Rules. This Code only includes requirements relating to the NZX Rules. This Board Charter (Charter) sets out the role, responsibilities, composition, structure and approach of the Board. The Board is legally responsible for the affairs and activities of the Company. The Charter provides guidance for the effective oversight of the Company by the Board on behalf of its shareholders, employees and other material stakeholders.

The Charter should be read in conjunction with the Constitution available below.

NZKSI Corporate Governance Code 2025

NZKS Constitution

Directors' Fees Review Summary