DAME ROSANNE MEO DNZM, OBE, CFInstD

Rosanne has worked as a company director for over 30 years in New Zealand and Australia as well as extensive work as a trustee in the arts community and tertiary sector.

Her corporate career within the forestry and manufacturing sector predominantly working in marketing and human resources through to the early 2000s when she embarked rather ambitiously and tentatively into Corporate Governance.

Rosanne describes her career as a director and trustee as exciting demanding and extraordinarily rewarding. She is currently chairman of Briscoes, chairs two of AMP NZ staff Superannuation schemes and patron of Auckland Philharmonia. She is a mother of two marvellous daughters Annabelle and Victoria and now the grandmother of five grandsons who also play a very big part in her life.

Rosanne received an OBE in 1993 for services to business, Women’s Suffrage Medal also in 1993 and DNZM for services to business and for not-for-profit in 2011.