Mark Verbiest

Mr Verbiest is an experienced professional company director with over a decade of experience. A lawyer by training, he spent years in private practice as partner of a national law firm. He subsequently joined the senior executive team at Telecom New Zealand as Group General Counsel, also having executive responsibility for other corporate groups as well as two business units. He is also currently the Chair of listed company Meridian Energy. Mark has previously been Chair of Freightways, Spark, Transpower NZ, Willis Bond Capital and a director of a number of other companies and entities, including ANZ Bank, the inaugural board of the Financial Markets Authority and the advisory board to NZ Treasury. He is member of People and Culture Committee, Development and Construction Committee and member of Risk Committee.