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Otago Southland Branch presents our Emerging Director Award for 2025 and honours our recently awarded Distinguished Fellow Kathy Grant
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As the year swiftly comes to a close, we are delighted to once again host our annual end-of-year gathering, combined with the presentation of the 2025 Emerging Director Award.
We will also proudly celebrate our 2025 Emerging Director Award winner - along with Kathy Grant, our most recent Distinguished Fellow.
This year’s guest speaker is Linda Robertson, a professional director with more than 25 years’ governance experience and an extensive background in the energy and financial sectors. Linda currently chairs Crown Irrigation Investments and the Central Lakes Trust and serves on a number of prominent boards, including SBS Bank, Kordia, Alpine Energy and Horizon Energy Group. She is a Chartered Fellow of the IoD and a Distinguished Fellow of INFINZ.
We look forward to sharing the evening with IoD members, as well as their partners and colleagues, as we close out the year together.
The cocktail function will take place upstairs in the Theomin Balcony space at the HD Skinner Annex -Tūhura Otago Museum.
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Linda is a professional company director with over 25 years governance experience, combined with 30 years senior financial management experience, having worked in both the banking and energy sectors in New Zealand.
Linda has been a full-time company director since 2015. Linda’s governance experience spans many industries such as banking, funds management, electricity generation, retail and distribution; co-operatives, local authority owned and state-owned entities and charities. Linda has a Bachelor of Commerce Degree and a Diploma in Banking. She also holds a Sustainability and ESG Designation, a Climate and Biodiversity Certificate, and is a member of Chapter Zero New Zealand. Linda is a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Finance Professionals New Zealand (INFINZ), a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a Chartered Governance Professional and a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Directors in New Zealand.
Linda is currently chair of Crown Irrigation Investments and Central Lakes Trust. She is a director of the Local Government Funding Agency, Horizon Energy Group, Invercargill City Holdings, Kordia Group and SBS Bank. Linda is also a member of the Capital Markets Advisory Committee and the Risk and Audit Committee of The Treasury, and a member of the Audit and Risk Committee of the Office of the Auditor General.
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Michelle Branford
Otago Southland Branch Manager
+64 20 4183 5664
michelle.branford@iod.org.nz
The Otago Southland Branch acknowledges the generous support of
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Members — $0.00
Non-members — $30.00
