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Mr. Graeme D. Pitkethly is an Independent Non-Executive Director at Pearson Plc, a Chief Financial Officer & Executive Director at Unilever Plc, a Chairman & Executive Vice President at Unilever Ireland Ltd. and a Chief Financial Officer & Director at Unilever International Holdings NV. He is on the Board of Directors at Pearson Plc, Pearson Education, Inc., Task Force On Climate-Related Financial Disclosures, Unilever Plc and Unilever International Holdings NV. Mr. Pitkethly was previously employed as a Chief Financial Officer & Executive Director by Unilever NV, a Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer by PT Unilever Indonesia Tbk, a Treasurer by Unilever NV, a Chairman & Executive Vice President by Unilever UK Ltd., and a Vice President-Finance & Corporate Development by Reliance Globalcom Ltd. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Strathclyde.

Graeme Hart (born 1955) is a New Zealand businessman reported to be the richest person in New Zealand with a personal fortune of NZ$8.8 billion (US$6.1b) according to the 2009 Forbes rich list. The 2007 September 22–28 issue of the New Zealand Listener listed Hart as being the 29th most powerful New Zealander. He prefers to stay out of the general media and makes few public appearances.

Much like other leveraged buyout (LBO) private equity investors, Hart has a preference for buying underperforming and undervalued companies with steady cash flows which can be turned around through strong cash management, cost-cutting and restructuring with other businesses. Since his 2006 purchase of Carter Holt Harvey he has focused his acquisitions on the paper packaging sector. His largest acquisition to-date was for Alcoa's Packaging & Consumer group in 2008 for US$2.7bn, later renamed Reynolds Packaging Group. He does not directly manage his businesses, and is focused mostly on the financing related to re-capitalization of the companies.

Unlike other LBO investors however, Hart is not a believer of sharing the returns of the company, and does not allow any member of the team to get any share in the equity of the businesses. In this manner, he ensures that the risk and the substantial rewards of an LBO investment remain solely with him.

Forbes stated that Hart was the 110th-richest person in the world, As of|2009|lc=on.

Current interests
Rank Group
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Rank Group Ltd is Graeme Hart's private investment company. It is the 100% owner of Burns Philp and Carter Holt Harvey. Rank had assets of approximately NZ$3bn in cash after selling the assets of Burns Philp and floating Goodman Fielder in 2004.

In December 2006 he agreed to purchase International Paper's drinks packaging business Evergreen Packaging for NZ$725 million. In May 2007 he bought Swiss packaging company SIG for NZ$3.2bn. The SIG division Combibloc is the second largest food and drink carton packaging company in the world after Swedish giant Tetra Laval. In August 2007 Hart completed his US$450M purchase of US paper packaging company Blue Ridge Paper Products of North Carolina which he intends to merge with Evergreen Packaging of Arkansas. These acquisitions make Rank Group the world's second biggest player in the paper products business.

Hart's 'company vehicle' is a Bombardier Global Express 5000, registered N18WZ.

Burns Philp
Burns Philp and Company Limited was an Australian and New Zealand food manufacturing company dual listed on the ASX and NZX. Hart has been the chairman since September 2004 and a member of the board of directors since September 1997. In 2003 Burns Philp performed a A$2.4bn hostile takeover of the much larger food group Goodman Fielder before relisting it through an IPO.

Following the sale of its yeast and spices business to UK firm Associated British Foods, Uncle Toby's to Nestle for NZ$1.1bn and Bluebird Foods to PepsiCo for NZ$245M the company became largely a cashed up shell.

In December 2006, Hart completed a A$1.6bn takeover of the 42 per cent of Burns Philp he did not already own. After the successful takeover Burns Philp was delisted from the ASX and NZX. The deal gave him total control of A$2.9bn of Burns Philp cash, net of debt, which he could then use to further build on his Carter Holt Harvey empire.

Hart sold Burn Philp's 20% stake in Goodman Fielder for NZ$675.8M in October 2007.

In November 2009 and May 2010, Hart, through additional debt financing has combined the packaging groups he owns into Reynolds Group Holdings Limited. RGHL is the combination of four operating segments: SIG (a beverage packaging manufacturer headquartered in Zurich), Closures (a plastic bottle cap manufacturer headquartered in Indianapolis), Evergreen Packaging (a beverage packaging manufacturer headquartered in Memphis), and Reynolds Consumer Products(an aluminium foil and other packaging materials manufacturer) located in Lake Forest, Illinois. While the operations are spread around the world, the RGHL corporate headquarters are located in the same office building as Reynolds Consumer Products in Lake Forest, Illinois.

Early years
Hart's successful business career has humble origins—in his younger days, he worked as a tow-truck driver and as a panel beater after leaving school at 16.

In 1987, Hart completed an MBA from the University of Otago. His research thesis outlines the strategy for Rank, then a small hire company, to evolve into a major corporation. This strategy relies on using the cash flow of well-performing companies to fund debt, which as it gets paid off, increases the equity value of the initial investors, a.k.a. leveraged buyouts.

Hart gained a big break when he purchased the Government Printing Office for less than its capital value in 1990. The purchase was 1.4x Earnings and Hart was provided generous payment terms. Then New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange initially refused to sign off the transaction. The following year he bought Whitcoulls Group which at that time included a retail chain of bookstores as well as office and stationery concerns. He has since sold off these interests.

Personal
Graeme Hart has residences in Auckland, New Zealand and on Waiheke Island, New Zealand. He attended Mount Roskill Grammar School. Hart says he lacks interest in making money for its own sake. He describes his personal wealth as a 'by-product' of what he does.

While he prefers to keep a low profile in the general media he was notable for the launch of his 58m luxury motor yacht Ulysses at Auckland's Viaduct Harbour in January 2006. The yacht is valued at nearly $100M and took five years to complete due to being gutted by a fire during refit by a New Orleans shipyard. In 2012 it was put up for sale for .

Graeme P. Hunt is a businessperson who has been the head of 12 different companies and presently occupies the position of Chairman of BIS Industries Ltd., Chairman of Western Australian Energy Research Alliance, Chairman for National Resource Science Precinct and Chairman for AGL Energy Ltd. He is also on the board of Future Battery Industries Cooperative Research Centre. In the past Graeme P. Hunt held the position of CEO, Director & Managing Director at Broadspectrum (Australia) Pty Ltd., Managing Director & Owner at G.P. Hunt Associates Pty Ltd., President-Uranium & Olympic Dam Development at BHP Group Ltd., President-Aluminium at BHP Group Plc, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director at Lihir Gold Ltd., CEO, Managing Director & Director at Broadspectrum Ltd., Chief Executive Officer & Director at Broadspectrum Pty Ltd., President of Australian Uranium Association, President at Australian Mines & Metals Association and President for The International Manganese Institute.

Graeme Richard Liebelt is an Australian businessperson who has been at the head of 9 different companies. Currently, Mr. Liebelt is Chairman of Amcor Plc and Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director at Orica Chemnet Pty Ltd. He is also on the board of Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd., Australian Foundation Investment Co. Ltd. and Carey Baptist Grammar School. In his past career Mr. Liebelt held the position of Chairman for The Global Foundation, CEO, Executive Director & Managing Director at Orica Ltd. Chairman for Incitec Ltd. and Chief Executive Officer for Orica Mining Services Pvt Ltd. (both are subsidiaries of Orica Ltd.), Chairman at Amcor Pty Ltd., Chairman for DuluxGroup Ltd., Managing Director & General Manager-Plastics at Dulux Australia Ltd., Marketing Director of Repco Australia and Marketing Director for Philip Morris (Australia) Ltd. Mr. Liebelt received an undergraduate degree from the University of Adelaide.

Graeme Frances Bevans is the founder of Annuity Infrastructure Co. Ltd.
He currently holds the following positions: Chief Executive Officer at Atlas Arteria Fund, Chief Executive Officer, Executive Director & MD at Atlas Arteria Ltd., Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director at Atlas Arteria International Ltd., Director at APRR SA, Director at Doowron Pty Ltd., and Director at European Transport Investments (UK) Ltd.
He has previously worked as a Director at Puget Energy, Inc., Puget Sound Energy, Inc., Broadcast Australia Pty Ltd., Endeavour Energy, Dussur, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, IFM Investors Pty Ltd., Astatine Investment Partners LLC, and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Private Investments.

Currently, Graeme Parkes holds the position of Chief Information Officer & EVP at WillScot Mobile Mini Holdings Corp. He is also on the board of St. Mary's Food Bank Alliance and Mobile Mini UK Holdings Ltd. In his past career he was Chief Information Officer at Mobile Mini, Inc. Mr. Parkes received an undergraduate degree from the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Presently, Graeme A. Watt holds the position of Chief Executive Officer & Executive Director at Softcat Plc. In his past career Mr. Watt occupied the position of President-Europe & Middle East at Tech Data Corp. President of Tech Data Services UK Ltd. President for Tech Data AS GmbH, Managing Director-United Kingdom & Ireland at Computer 2000 AG and Managing Director at Tech Data Ltd. (which are all subsidiaries of Tech Data Corp.), Senior Vice President of Tech Data Corp. President of Tech Data Services UK Ltd. President at Tech Data AS GmbH, Managing Director-United Kingdom & Ireland at Computer 2000 AG and Managing Director at Tech Data Ltd. (which are all subsidiaries of Tech Data Corp.) and Vice President & Member-Global Executive Council at Avnet, Inc. President-Worldwide Distribution at Bell Microproducts, Inc. and President-EMEA Region at Avnet Technology Solutions, Inc. (both are subsidiaries of Avnet, Inc.). He received an undergraduate degree from The University of Edinburgh.

Graeme Thompson is currently the Chief Information Officer & Senior Vice President at Informatica LLC and Informatica, Inc. (California).
He previously held the position of Vice President-Supply Chain at RNI Wind Down Corp.
from 2000 to 2006.
From 2013 to 2016, he was the VP-Global Information Technology Services at Oracle Corp.
He also served as the Chief Information Officer & Vice President at BEA Systems, Inc. in 2008.
Mr. Thompson completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Paisley.

Graeme Martin Currie is currently the Chief Development Officer at Pasithea Therapeutics Corp.
Prior to his current position, he served as the Chief Executive Officer at Alpha-5 Integrin LLC from 2021 to 2022.
He also held the position of Director-Clinical Research at Gilead Sciences, Inc. and Vice President-Clinical Operations at PDL BioPharma, Inc. From 2017 to 2019, he was the Chief Operating Officer at Rainier Therapeutics, Inc. and from 2019 to 2021, he served as the Chief Development Officer at Tolerion, Inc. Additionally, he is currently the Chief Development Officer at Lytix Biopharma AS, a position he has held since 2021.
Dr. Currie holds a doctorate degree from the University of Aston.

Mr. Graeme Smeaton is a Principal at AFG Media Ltd.
Mr. Smeaton was previously employed as an Account Manager by Kraft Foods UK Ltd.
and Customer Marketing Manager by Cadbury Plc.
He received his undergraduate degree from The University of Edinburgh.

Mr. Graeme Small is Chief Financial Officer & Secretary at Colemans Group Australia Pty Ltd.
Mr. Small was previously employed as a Managing Director by The Australian Plasterboard Co. Holdings Pty Ltd., a Manager-Financial Systems by Thomson Reuters Corp., Project Accountant by St. George Bank Ltd., and System Accountant by Nordea Bank SA. He received his undergraduate degree from The University of Queensland and an MBA from Southern Cross University.

Graeme Ambrey Billings is currently the Independent Non-Executive Chairman at Austco Healthcare Ltd.
and the Chairman at GUD Holdings Ltd.
He also holds the position of Non-Executive Chairman at ANCA Pty Ltd.
and Director at National Can Industries Pty Ltd.
Additionally, he serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director at Clover Corp.
Ltd.
and a Non-Executive Director at Escala Partners Pty Ltd.
Mr. Billings is a Member of the Australian Institute of Co. Directors.
In his former roles, Mr. Billings served as the Chairman of Korvest Ltd.
from 2014 to 2021 and as an Independent Non-Executive Director at DomaCom Ltd.
from 2015 to 2021.
He also held positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers (Australia) as a Senior Partner and at Coopers & Lybrand (Australia) as a Partner.

Mr. Graeme R.
Eadie is a Research Analyst at UniCredit CAIB Securities UK Ltd.
Mr. Eadie was previously employed as a Research Analyst by Deutsche Bank AG.

Graeme Raymond Boden is currently the Director at SA Capital Pty Ltd.
and the Principal at Boden Corporate Services Pty Ltd.
He previously worked as the CFO & Non-Executive Director at Rhinomed Ltd.
from 2007 to 2011, Co-Secretary at Arafura Pearls Holdings Ltd.
from 2004 to 2010, Secretary at Spectrum Metals Ltd.
from 2006 to 2017, Secretary at PYC Therapeutics Ltd.
from 2007 to 2009, Chief Financial Officer & Secretary at PYC Therapeutics Ltd.
from 2011 to 2017, Secretary at Bondi Mining Ltd.
in 2012, Chief Financial Officer & Co-Secretary at Capricorn Metals Ltd.
from 2012 to 2017, and Secretary at World Titanium Resources Ltd.

Graeme Williams is currently a Director at Victor Technologies Australia Pty Ltd.
and a Member at Governance Institute of Australia Ltd.
He previously worked as the Chief Financial Officer & Executive Director at Lucent Technologies Australia Pty Ltd.
and as the Group Chief Financial Officer at WDS Ltd.
from 2007 to 2010.
He also worked as the Chief Financial Officer at APA Group from 2000 to 2005 and as a Secretary at JNA Telecommunications Ltd.

Graeme Paul Wheeler currently works at China Construction Bank Corp., as Independent Non-Executive Director from 2019, Thyssen-Bornemisza Group, as Non-Executive Director from 2017, and TBG AG, as Member-Supervisory Board.
Mr. Wheeler also formerly worked at International Bank for Reconstruction & Development, as Operations Director, The World Bank Group, as Managing Director-Operations from 2006 to 2010, Russian Railways OJSC, as Director, New Zealand Treasury Department, as Deputy Secretary from 1993 to 1997, The Reserve Bank of New Zealand, as Governor from 2012 to 2017, and New Zealand Debt Management Office, as Treasurer from 1993 to 1997.
Mr. Wheeler received his graduate degree in 1972 from Auckland University.

Graeme R.
Craig is currently a Director at Omar Group Ltd., Omar Group Investments Ltd., Omar Group Holdings Ltd., and Omar Group Finance Ltd.
He previously worked as Convenience Director-Walkers, Quaker & Tropicana at PepsiCo, Inc. and as Executive Director, Director-Brewing & Brands at Shepherd Neame Ltd.
from 2014 to 2017.

Graeme Roy Kaufman served as the Chief Financial Officer of CSL Ltd.
from 1984 to 1999.
He was also an Executive Director of Opthea Ltd.
from 2002 to 2007.
Kaufman held several non-executive chairman and director positions in various firms such as Bionomics Ltd., Paradigm Biopharmaceuticals Ltd., Anagenics Ltd., and Idt Australia Ltd.
He was also an Executive Vice President-Finance at Mesoblast Ltd.
Kaufman obtained his undergraduate degree and MBA from the University of Melbourne.

Graeme Grieve is currently the Director at The Society of Motor Manufacturers & Traders Ltd.
He was previously the Chief Executive Officer at BMW (UK) Ltd.
from 1990 to 2021.
He also held positions as Director-Sales & Marketing at Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Ltd.
and Vice President-Importer Markets at Bayerische Motoren Werke AG.

Graeme Drew is the founder of AusQuest Ltd., a company founded in 2000.
He currently holds the title of MD & Non-Independent Executive Director at AusQuest Ltd.
In addition to his founding position, Mr. Drew has also worked as an Exploration Manager at Rio Tinto Exploration Pty Ltd.
and CRA Exploration Pty Ltd.

Graeme N.
Walker is currently the Chief Financial Officer at DecaWave Ltd.
He previously worked as the Chief Finance Officer & Finance Director at MicroEmissive Displays Ltd.
from 2006 to 2009.
He also worked as the Chief Financial Officer-EMEA Region at Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. and as a Principal at Rolls-Royce Plc.
Mr. Walker is a graduate of The University of Edinburgh.

Graeme Andrew Jones has been a Director at Singula Decisions Ltd., Earthpeak Ltd., and Incagrove Ltd.

Graeme Rabone currently works at Anchor Resources Ltd., as Exploration Manager from 2011, Australasian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy, as Member, Graeme Rabone & Associates Pty Ltd., as Principal from 1994, and Bendigo Institute of Technology Gold Medallists Association, as Member.
Mr. Rabone also formerly worked at Primero Mining Corp., as Project Manager.
Mr. Rabone received his graduate degree in 2002 from the University of Canberra.

Graeme Cunnington is a member of CPA Australia Ltd.

Graeme P.
Hughes is currently the Chairman at Julian Hodge Bank Ltd., a Director at Nationwide Foundation, a Non-Executive Director at Hodge Life Assurance Co. Ltd., and a Director at Hodge Ltd.
He previously worked as the Group Director-People, Customer & Communications at Nationwide Building Society from 2012 to 2014.

Graeme Douglas Amey is currently the Chairman at British American Tobacco Australasia Ltd.
He was previously the Chief Executive Officer, MD & Executive Director at Pakistan Tobacco Co. Ltd.
from 2012 to 2016.

Graeme Purcell is currently a Non-Executive Director & Exploration Manager at Zuleika Gold Ltd.
and a Non-Executive Director at Boadicea Resources Ltd.
He is also a Member of the Society of Economic Geologists, the Australian Institute of Geoscientists, and The Australian Institute of Geologists.
Previously, he served as the Chief Operating Officer & Director at Animoca Brands Corp.
Ltd.
from 2013 to 2014.

Graeme Sumner is currently the Chief Executive Officer at Lyttelton Port Co. Ltd.
and a Member at the Australian Institute of Co. Directors.
Previously, he held the position of Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director at Advanced Braking Technology Ltd.
from 2014 to 2017, Chief Executive Officer, Executive Director & MD at Service Stream Ltd.
from 2010 to 2013, and Chief Executive Officer at Ventia NZ Operations Ltd.
He was also the Chief Executive Officer at Airways Corporation of New Zealand Ltd.
from 2017 to 2022.
Additionally, he served as the Managing Director at Siemens (N.Z.) Ltd.
and Director at Kordia Ltd.
Mr. Sumner obtained his undergraduate and MBA degrees from Auckland University.

Graeme Sewell is currently the President of Sky Ridge Consulting, Inc. He previously served as a Director for Pure Pioneer Ventures Ltd., Makena Resources, Inc., Cruz Battery Metals Corp., Halio Energy, Inc., Bonterra Resources, Inc., RockBridge Energy, Inc., Samurai Capital Corp.
(Old), Spearmint Resources, Inc., Huaxing Machinery Corp., and as an Independent Director for Jinhua Capital Corp.
He also worked as an Accountant for Amisano Hanson and BDO Dunwoody LLP.

Graeme Philip Denison is currently working as a Secretary & Director at Buckingham Gate Ltd., Director at Caledonia Group Services Ltd., Secretary & Director at Caledonia Treasury Ltd., Secretary & Director at Caledonia Land & Property Ltd., and Director at Caledonia CCIL Distribution Ltd.
He previously worked as a Director at Sterling Industries Ltd.
from 2018 to 2019 and as a Secretary at Caledonia Investments Plc from 2009 to 2020.

Dr. Graeme E.
Llewellyn is a Partner at Llewellyn Consulting LLP.
Before co-founding Llewellyn Consulting, Dr. Llewellyn was Global Chief Economist and then Senior Economic Policy Advisor at Lehman Brothers.
This followed almost twenty years at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, where variously he was Head of International Forecasting and Policy Analysis, Editor of the OECD Economic Outlook, Deputy Director for Social Affairs, Manpower and Education, and finally Chef de Cabinet to the Secretary-General.
Prior to that he spent nearly ten years at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Cambridge, and he was also a Fellow of St. John’s College.
He earned his undergraduate degree at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and his Doctorate at the University of Oxford.

Graeme McNeill has been a Director, President, Chief Executive Officer, Secretary and Treasurer of Wolf Resources, Inc. since October 28, 2008 and a Sales Executive at Taiga Forest Products since January 2008.
He was a Sales Executive and an Inventory Specialist for Weyerhaeuser Co. from January 2007 to January 2008.
Mr. McNeill received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Royal Roads University in Calgary, Alberta in 2006.

Graeme J.
Horsfield worked as the Chief Executive Officer at Set Point Group Pty Ltd.

Graeme Stuart Lord is currently a Director at multiple firms including Delegat's Wine Estate Ltd., Oyster Bay Wines Australia Pty Ltd., and HealthPost Ltd.
He is also a Member of the Institute of Directors in New Zealand, Inc. In the past, he served as the Chief Executive Officer of Macpac Ltd.
and as the Managing Director & Executive Director of Delegat Group Ltd.
He also previously held the position of Non-Executive Chairman at Delegat Group Ltd.

Graeme George Bond is the founder of FDM Digital Solutions Ltd.
He is currently serving as the Chief Executive Officer of the company, a position he has held since 2011.