Wednesday, 01 April 2020 09:34

New Rabobank chair

Written by David Anderson

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Andy Borland.

Andy Borland is the new chair of Rabobank New Zealand Limited.

Click here to read Rabobank's latest report on international dairy markets: Dairy’s corona hangover.

He succeeds Sir Henry van der Heyden, who stood down from the board due to regulatory changes.

Borland has been a Rabobank New Zealand director since 2016 and is the managing director of agribusiness company Scales Group.

In other changes to Rabobank NZ board, Brent Goldsack has been appointed as a new, independent director, with current directors Jillian Segal and Peter Knoblanche leave the board.

All these changes take effect on April 1, 2020.

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