Results announced for the 2011 Fonterra elections

Returning Officer Warwick Lampp, of electionz.com Ltd, has declared the final results of the 2011 Fonterra Board of Directors’, Directors’ Remuneration Committee and Shareholders’ Council elections.

Shareholders voted to re-elect incumbent Directors Jim van der Poel and John Monaghan. They will be joined by new Director David MacLeod.

David, aged 43, lives near Hawera in South Taranaki and is a Director of PKW Farms Ltd, one of Fonterra’s largest shareholders. David has governance experience with Port Taranaki and Greaves Electrical, and is the current Chairman of the Taranaki Regional Council and a National Council member of Local Government New Zealand. David was elected to the Taranaki Regional Council in 2001, and in 2007 was appointed to the Chairmanship, making him the youngest council chair ever elected in New Zealand.

Shareholders Philip Wilson and Murray Holdaway were re-elected unopposed as members of the Directors’ Remuneration Committee.

In the Shareholders’ Council elections, the following Shareholders’ Councillors were elected:

Ward 16 – Rotorua Greg Mitchell
Ward 22 – Central Taranaki Noel Caskey
Ward 25 – Northern Manawatu Ellen Bartlett
Ward 26 – Hawke’s Bay Sandra Cordell
Ward 31 – Mid Canterbury Charles Whitehead

Of the above, Noel Caskey, Sandra Cordell and Charles Whitehead are new Shareholders’ Councillors.

In the eight other Shareholders’ Council wards where elections were due, nominees were elected unopposed. The Councillors in those wards are:

Ward 1 - Northern Northland Terence Brocx
Ward 4 - Southern Northland Simon Couper
Ward 7 - Coromandel Dirk Sieling
Ward 10 - Te Aroha Graham Hallett
Ward 13 - Matamata Grant Wills
Ward 19 - Taupo Phil Butler
Ward 28 - Wairarapa Philip Palmer
Ward 34 - Eastern Southland Lloyd McCallum

Warwick Lampp