The GEON Board of Directors is a dedicated team of experts with the combined background and wide ranging experience needed to be at the forefront of the visual and brand communication industries.
Graham Morgan Chief Executive Officer, GEON Group
Graham joined in October 2006 as the Chief Operating Officer and was promoted to Chief Executive Officer in February 2008. His achievements have included implementing a centralised procurement strategy, integrating a number of mergers and acquisitions and developing GEON's capabilities in delivering our customers added value and products across the visual communications supply chain.
Graham has over 25 years international general management experience across a number of industries. His roles have included: Group Operations Director, Regionals for Trinity Mirror Plc, the largest publisher in the UK and Managing Director for the Huddersfield Examiner, where he successfully led the growth strategy for the region.
He has been responsible for transforming the performance and culture of both traditional and modern operating environments through customer centric processes and solutions.
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Ashley Fenton Chief Financial Officer, GEON Group
Ashley Fenton is the Chief Financial Officer for the Group and joined in June, 2008. He has an extensive senior financial managment background in the media and communications sector, having held senior positions in Australia Media Limited, Fairfax Limited, Cable and Wireless Optus Limited and most recently as Chief Financial officer at Salmat Limited.
Ashley has provided financial leadership in high growth environments, led acquisitions and took Salmat to a listing in the ASX. He is also a Chartered Accountant (FCA) and was previously with Price Waterhouse Coopers.
Sandy Maier Chairman
Sandy (Samford) Maier has worked in international commercial and investment banking with Citicorp/ Citibank for 15 years in various management positions in the Caribbean, South America and Australasia.
He has lived and worked in New Zealand since 1986, serving on the board of the Bank of New Zealand and as the statutory manager of DFC New Zealand Limited, for which he received a 1990 Commemoration Medal for services to New Zealand. For the past 15 years, he has had his own international management consulting firm specialising in strategic financial and human resource issues.
He has served as chief executive and board member of a number of companies. He was appointed director for GEON in March 2004 and has been Chairman for the group since September 2005.
Roy McKelvie Non-Executive Director
Roy is Managing Director of Gresham Private Equity and is focused on the management of Fund 2. Roy joined Gresham with more than 15 years experience in the Private Equity industry as a Director of 3i plc in Europe and as Managing Director and Head of DB Capital’s Asian business located in Hong Kong and Sydney.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in Production Engineering from the University of Strathclyde, an MBA from the University of Edinburgh Management School and has completed the Senior Investors Program at INSEAD in Paris.
Mark Rimmer Executive Director
Mark has worked as a strategy consultant for 13 years, with specific leadership responsibilities in Consumer Goods & Retail industries. Prior to that, Mark spent 10 years in various managerial roles in the Food Retailing and Supply Chain industries in the UK. He holds an MBA from the Melbourne Business School.
Peter W. West Non-executive Director
Peter is a Chartered Accountant and has developed a practice centred largely around management accounting for medium to large private companies.
He has significant commercial experience in relation to his own business interests as well as those of his clients and has been involved in the print industry for the past 20 years.
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