Of MCK Metals Pacific Ltd

I am Chief Executive of MCK Metals Pacific Ltd. I am a chartered accountant by profession. After finishing my Bachelor of Commerce degree in accounting and management in 1996 I worked for 6 years with Ernst and Young within NZ and also in Australia and Canada. In 1993 I completed a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Otago University. Since the completion of the MBA I have held a number of senior management roles within the dairying and the roading and construction businesses. My principal involvement with these companies was financially focused but included change management and mergers and acquisition work including setting up of joint ventures in Asia and the Pacific. I joined MCK in 2001 as General Manager Finance and Administration and was involved in reshaping the current MCK business to where it is today. This included the divestiture of the brass, copper and the Australian distribution operations of MCK and refocusing the business to an aluminium only business. In 2004 I led a management buyout of the aluminium business and became its Chief Executive and Managing Director. MCK currently employs around 280 staff and exports approximately 50% of all its product to Australia, Pacific Islands and small volumes into Europe and North America.