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“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.