Gráinne is the IoD’s Auckland Branch Chair and sits on the IoD Council. She is currently a director of NZX-listed companies Tourism Holdings, Summerset Group and Investore Property Ltd and is an independent board member of the legal firm Duncan Cotterill and the New Zealand Automobile Association. She is also an appointed member of the NZX’s Corporate Governance Institute. In the not-for-profit sector, she has chaired Tourism Industry Aotearoa (during which time she also co-chaired the government’s Tourism Industry Transformation Plan) and Ronald McDonald House Charities. She is a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Directors.
Prior to her governance career, Grainne had many years’ experience in senior executive roles, including as General Manager of Corporate Services at SKYCITY Entertainment Group and as Managing Director of McDonald’s Restaurants NZ.