Directors

Directors of AMP NZ Office Trust’s manager, AMP Haumi Management Limited

Craig Stobo, BA (Hons) First Class Economics
Chairman, New Zealand

Craig Stobo is an entrepreneur and professional director. He was instrumental in establishing BT Funds Management in 1992 and as CEO and director, built it up to $3.5 billion under management (2004). In 2004, he chaired the Tax Review "Towards Consensus on the Taxation of Investment Income" which reported to the NZ Minister of Finance on taxation reforms for the savings and investment industry. Craig is executive chairman of Elevation Capital Management Ltd; director and chairman of Saturn Portfolio Management Ltd and Saturn Invest NZ Ltd; executive chairman of SouthWest Trustees Ltd; director and chairman of OCG Consulting Ltd; director and chairman of Industrial Research Ltd; director of SuperPoints Ltd and its subsidiaries; and a director of both Stobo Group Ltd and A H Stobo Ltd.

Craig is a 2004 graduate of Wharton Business School’s Advanced Management Programme at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA.

Graeme Horsley LFNZIV/LFPINZ
Director, New Zealand

Graeme is an independent property consultant and professional director with 40 years' property valuation and consultancy experience, including 14 years with Ernst & Young New Zealand where he was national director of the real estate group.

Graeme is a life fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Valuers (now the Property Institute of New Zealand), a member of the American Society of Real Estate Counselors, and a Government appointee and deputy chairman of the Bay of Plenty District Health Board. Graeme is an accredited fellow of the Institute of Directors in New Zealand, and is currently a director of ING Medical Properties Ltd and chairman of Ngati Whatua o Orakei Corporation Ltd.

Andrew Bird BSc Urban Land Administration, MRICS
Director, Australia

Andrew is the Director of AMP Capital Investors’ $15 billion Australian property investment and management business. With over 30 years’ experience in the property industry in Australia, the UK and Asia Pacific, Andrew oversees the fund management of property assets for external clients, significant private client portfolios and opportunistic funds. In addition, he supervises AMP Capital’s substantial property investment services including asset management, retail, commercial and industrial property management, development, research and investment strategy, capital transactions, treasury management and finance.
As Chief Investment Officer, Andrew is responsible for overseeing the Property Investment Committees which govern investment strategy and strategy implementation.
Andrew is also a member of the AMP Capital Investors Leadership Team.

Anthony Beverley MCom (VPM) (Hons) First Class, FNZIV, FPINZ, FINSIA
Director, New Zealand

Anthony is the Head of Property for AMP Capital Investors (New Zealand) Limited, and has overall responsibility for the New Zealand domestic property operations. The New Zealand property business includes approximately $3.5 billion of property assets under management. Anthony is a director of listed company Property For Industry and several other AMP Capital-related companies. In 2005, Anthony was presented with the Property Institute of New Zealand’s premier award in recognition of his contribution to the property industry and the wider economy over the course of his career.

Mohamed Ahmed Darwish Karam Al-Qubaisi

Mohamed Ahmed Darwish Karam Al-Qubaisi represents Haumi Company Limited.

Mark Verbiest, LLB
Director, New Zealand

Mark Verbiest also represents Haumi Company Limited. He was group general counsel and a member of Telecom’s senior executive team from late 2000 through to June 2008. He had executive responsibility for several corporate teams, including the legal and regulatory affairs teams, as well as executive accountability for the International and Yellow Pages divisions (the latter until it was sold in 2007). He also represented Telecom on the board of Southern Cross Cables, an international cable joint venture, latterly as chairman, as well as representing Telecom on the boards of other companies in which Telecom had a significant interest.

Prior to 2000, Mark was a senior partner in national law firm Simpson Grierson specialising in mergers and acquisitions and securities, competition and utilities-related law. He is also a director of Gas Industry Company Limited, a co-regulatory body established by the Government and industry as co-regulator of NZ's gas industry.