Michael Boggs - Chief Executive Officer
Michael leads New Zealand Media and Entertainment (NZME) as Chief Executive Officer since March 2016, following his role as the company's Chief Financial Officer. Under his leadership, NZME continues to execute a comprehensive growth strategy, accelerating development across the group's brands with particular focus on subscription and classified offerings, digital and video content, while ensuring sustainable growth of our traditional print and radio platforms.
His extensive executive experience includes serving as Chief Financial Officer at Tower Limited, where he managed multibillion-dollar assets, Pacific Islands operations, the earthquake recovery programme, and the strategic divestment of Tower's life insurance, health insurance and investment management businesses. This transformative work earned him CFO of the Year at the 2014 New Zealand CFO Awards.
Michael brings significant telecommunications and technology sector expertise from executive roles in finance, commercial and business functions at major organisations, including Telstra's New Zealand operations.
Greg Hornblow - Chief of OneRoof
Greg serves as Chief of OneRoof since January 2023, bringing over 30 years of commercial experience working alongside real estate professionals, and in advertising and marketing, including previous roles at NZME. His extensive industry expertise and deep understanding of the real estate sector have been instrumental in driving OneRoof's growth and innovation.
Greg's collaborative leadership approach and passion for the industry continue to create enhanced value for our agent partners, while strengthening OneRoof's position as a leading property platform in New Zealand's dynamic real estate market.
Carolyn Luey - Chief Digital and Publishing Officer
Carolyn serves as our Chief Digital and Publishing Officer since August 2021, returning to NZME after previously serving as Chief Operating Officer until December 2016. Following her initial tenure, she held senior transformational roles at MYOB and served as Chief Consumer Officer at Vodafone.
With extensive experience as a strategic business leader across New Zealand's telecommunications, technology and media sectors, Carolyn brings deep expertise in digital transformation and audience engagement. Carolyn brings a wealth of knowledge and understanding of how best NZME can grow digital audiences, subscriptions and revenues
David Mackrell - Chief Financial Officer
David serves as NZME's Chief Financial Officer since March 2019, leading our Finance, Technology, Legal and Strategy functions. He joined us from Heartland Bank where he served as Chief Financial Officer.
David began his career at Ernst & Young as an Auditor before joining Air New Zealand in 1992. His 25-year tenure there encompassed numerous senior financial and commercial roles, culminating as Deputy Chief Financial Officer.
In September 2024, David was named CFO of the Year at the Brightstar CFO of the Year awards and was a finalist in the CFO category for the Deloitte Top 200 awards.
Katie Mills - Chief Marketing Officer
Katie leads NZME's Marketing, Creative and Communications functions since joining our Executive Team in December 2018. She previously served as Group Marketing Director at Aspire2 Group Limited and General Manager (Global) Marketing & Communications at Opus International Consultants.
Katie brings more than 20 years of media-specific experience to her role, including 15 years at MediaWorks in senior leadership positions. As Head of Marketing, she successfully developed and delivered marketing and brand strategies across radio, digital, event and television ventures.
Katie was named a finalist for Marketer of the Year at the 2024 NZ Marketing Awards.
JASON WINSTANLEY - CHIEF AUDIO OFFICER
Jason serves as Chief Audio Officer since 2021, building on nearly 20 years of radio leadership within NZME. With one of New Zealand's most comprehensive radio leadership backgrounds, he has successfully led multiple music brands, including five years as Content Director of The Hits before heading Newstalk ZB, where he drove record audience growth and commercial success.
As Chief Audio Officer, Jason leads NZME's radio and digital audio strategy, focusing on the iHeartRadio streaming platform and NZME Podcast Network. Under his leadership, NZME has emerged as New Zealand's leader in local digital audio content and commercial opportunities, while his empowering leadership style drives innovation across our audio platforms.
JAMES BUTCHER - CHIEF COMMERCIAL OFFICER
James serves as Chief Commercial Officer since February 2024, following three years as Head of Digital Audio. He leads NZME's commercial strategy, overseeing nationwide advertising solutions for agency and direct customers, across commercial integration, sponsorship and creative strategy as well as responsibility for partnerships and B2B marketing.
With over 20 years of senior leadership experience across media sales and agency sectors in New Zealand, the UK, and Australia, James brings proven expertise in digital transformation. At NZME, he transformed our terrestrial radio business into a digital-first audio powerhouse, while his industry leadership earned him the IAB 'Service to The Industry' Award in 2020.
CHRIS WALLACE - CHIEF PEOPLE OFFICER
Chris Wallace serves as our Chief People Officer, joining in April 2024.
Chris brings extensive HR, strategy and operations experience from roles across New Zealand and internationally, including Air New Zealand, Westpac, Samsung Electronics and Bank of China. He specialises in leading dynamic organisations with a people focus on diversity, development and engagement.
As Chief People Officer, Chris leads our Culture and Performance team, overseeing HR, wellness, health and safety, property and facilities, recruitment, employer brand, and learning and development initiatives.
