David has a number of governance roles and has been chair of AFT since the IPO in 2015. David is also chair of the Suncorp New Zealand group of companies. He is also a director of Todd Corporation and a number of environmentally focused pro bono organisations.
He is a former chair of the NZ Markets Disciplinary Tribunal and the NZX Regulatory Governance Committee and a former member of the Takeovers Panel. He is also a director of boutique corporate law firm Flacks & Wong.
David was for many years a senior corporate partner at Bell Gully and was general counsel and company secretary of Carter Holt Harvey during the 1990’s. He is a law graduate from Cambridge University.
