Staff Reporters
Sep 2, 2008

Telecom NZ names Saatchi & Saatchi's Roberts to board

AUCKLAND - Telecom New Zealand has named Saatchi & Saatchi global CEO Kevin Roberts (pictured) as a board director, in a bid to enhance marketing and branding expertise at the organisation.

Telecom NZ names Saatchi & Saatchi's Roberts to board
Chairman Wayne Boyd said that Roberts appointed followed a three-month “intensive and rigorous search process.”

“It’s important our board attracts and retains people with a mix of skills appropriate to a company in transformation,” said Boyd. “Kevin is passionate about ideas, about innovation, about good corporate practice, and about the progress of New Zealand,”

Roberts, a New Zealand citizen, has headed Saatchis for the past 11 years, prior to which he was COO at Lion Nathan.
Source:
Campaign Asia

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