20 May 2016

Don Braid awarded the INFINZ Leadership Award

We would like to congratulate our Managing Director Don Braid on being awarded the 2016 Institute of Finance Professionals (INFINZ) Leadership Award. This was held last night at a black tie awards dinner at the Langham hotel in Auckland to acknowledge and celebrate the professional standards in New Zealand’s capital markets.  

Award criteria was to demonstrate true executive leadership traits as proven by:

• Service innovation
• International market penetration and success
• Sustainable stakeholder relationships with:
  • Employees
  • Suppliers
  • Customers
  • Community

"Don has implemented the Mainfreight board's long-range strategy to become the best in its business and has helped the company to become a global supply chain business with over 240 branches around the world offering sophisticated logistics solutions," INFINZ said.

Don is a true leader, he is dedicated to our team and acknowledges the hard work that goes into our operations. This award couldn’t go to a more deserving person and we are proud to call Don our leader. 

“If this is a tick in the box for the way we have done things or are trying to do, and for what we’re trying to create, then we’ll take that tick.” Don Braid