DIRECTOR PROFILES

BRUCE PLESTED  Executive Chairman & Founding Owner

Appointment to Board 1978 - With Mainfreight since 1978

Founding Managing Director of Mainfreight.

DON BRAID  Group Managing Director

Appointment to Board 2000 - With Mainfreight since 1994

16 years with Freightways Group. Joined Mainfreight through the acquisition of Daily Freightways.
Email Don at don@mainfreight.com

BRYAN MOGRIDGE, ONZM  Independent Director

Appointment to Board 2003

Other Directorships: Pyne Gould Corporation, Designworks-Enterprise IG (Chairman), West Auckland Trust Services Ltd, Waitakere City Holdings Ltd, Enterprise Waitakere, Rakon Ltd (Chairman), Momentum Energy Ltd (Chairman) and Guardian Healthcare Ltd (Chairman).

CARL HOWARD-SMITH  Director

Appointment to Board 1983 - With Mainfreight since 1978

General Counsel to Mainfreight, Chairman of the Mainfreight Audit Committee, Commercial Law practice.

Other Directorships: A director of private companies, Director of the SPCA.

EMMET HOBBS  Independent Director

Appointment to Board 2003

Former Executive Director Brambles Industrial Services Australia, Former Executive Director Qantas Freight, Director Hirepool, a number of private Directorships in New Zealand.

RICHARD PREBBLE  Independent Director

Appointment to Board 1996

Former Minister of State Owned Enterprises, Transport, Civil Aviation, Railways and Associate Finance. Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport.

Other Directorships: McConnell International Ltd, WEL Networks and a number of private Directorships and family companies.

SIMON COTTER  Independent Director

Appointment to Board 2013

Other Directorships: Grant Samuel & Associates, and a number of private directorships.