Executive Team

Michael was appointed CEO of New Zealand Media and Entertainment (NZME) in March 2016. Prior to that he held the Chief Financial Officer position at NZME. Michael’s core focus at NZME has been to develop and implement a group wide strategy to accelerate growth across NZME’s brands particularly in the areas of subscription and classified offerings, digital and video content, while ensuring the sustainable growth of the company’s traditional print and radio platforms.

Michael has extensive senior executive experience including as Chief Financial Officer at leading insurance company Tower Limited. While at Tower, Michael managed the company’s multibillion-dollar assets, its Pacific Islands operations, earthquake recovery programme and the sale of Tower’s life insurance, health insurance and investment management businesses. This industry leading work was recognised in 2014 when Michael was awarded CFO of the year at the annual New Zealand CFO Awards. Michael also has significant background in the telecommunications and technology sectors with executive roles in the finance, commercial and business functions of major organisations including Telstra’s New Zealand operations.

Greg was appointed as Chief of OneRoof in January 2023.

Greg has an incredibly strong commercial background, with more than 30 years of experience working alongside real estate professionals in a variety of roles and in advertising and marketing, including previously at NZME.

His passion for the real estate industry and proven track record will ensure OneRoof is well placed to create further value for our agent partners.

Carolyn was appointed Chief Digital and Publishing Officer in August 2021.

After 5 years at NZME, Carolyn left as Chief Operating Officer in December 2016. She then went on to senior transformational roles at MYOB and Vodafone where she was Chief Consumer Officer.

With extensive experience as a strategic business leader in large New Zealand telecommunications, technology and media companies, Carolyn brings a wealth of knowledge and understanding of how best NZME can deliver growing digital audience engagement for our commercial partners.

David was appointed Chief Financial Officer of NZME in March 2019, leading NZME’s Finance, Technology and Strategy functions. He moved to NZME from Heartland Bank where he was their Chief Financial Officer.

David started his professional career at Ernst & Young as an Auditor before joining Air New Zealand in 1992. His career at Air New Zealand spanned 25 years and a large gamut of senior financial and commercial roles, finishing with the company as Deputy Chief Financial Officer.

Katie joined the NZME Executive Team in December 2018 assuming leadership of the company’s Marketing and Communications functions. Immediately prior, Katie held the role of Group Marketing Director at Aspire2 Group Limited and was previously General Manager (Global) Marketing & Communications at Opus International Consultants.

Along with Katie’s wide marketing industry experience, she also brings to her role, more than 20 years of media-specific experience. 15 of those years were spent at MediaWorks in senior leadership positions including as Head of Marketing, successfully developing and delivering marketing and brand strategies for a portfolio of radio, digital, event and television ventures.

Jason is one of New Zealand’s most experienced audio executives with extensive experience across music and talk radio. He has led high profile and successful music radio brands including 7 years as Assistant Content Director at ZM and 5 years as Content Director of The Hits. He also led the successful transition of ‘Classic Hits’ to the ‘The Hits’ brand in 2014. 

In his most recent role as Head of Talk for NZME, Jason has led Newstalk ZB to record audience growth and continued commercial success.

Jason's role includes responsibility for the radio business and the content delivery to support audience and revenue growth across NZME’s radio networks.

James was appointed as Chief Commercial Officer in February 2024.

James joined NZME three years ago and in his role as Head of Digital Audio, had responsibility for NZME’s content and commercialisation strategy across our digital audio portfolio including iHeartRadio, our NZME Podcast Network and digital streaming of our many radio shows.

As well as having built exceptional relationships internally within the NZME team, James is well regarded by our agency partners and clients, and he understands our business well.  With more than two decades of experience in senior leadership roles across media sales and agency sectors in New Zealand, the UK and Australia, he has a wealth of experience outside of NZME too. 

Chris Wallace joined us as Chief People Officer in April 2024.

Chris has significant experience in HR, strategy and operations both here in New Zealand and overseas, including roles at Air New Zealand, Westpac, Samsung Electronics and Bank of China. He is used to leading in dynamic companies with a people focus on diversity, development and engagement.

In his role as Chief People Officer, Chris will lead our Culture and Performance team and oversee HR, wellness, health and safety, property and facilities, recruitment, our employer brand, and our learning and development programme.