Mark John Verbiest

Mark is Chair of Summerset and an experienced professional company director with over a decade of experience. A lawyer by training, he spent many years in private practice as partner of a large national law firm, then joined Telecom New Zealand as Group General Counsel with executive responsibility for other corporate groups and two business units.

Mark is Chair of the Board. Mark is an experienced professional company director with over a decade of experience. A lawyer by training, he spent many years in private practice as partner of a large national law firm. He subsequently joined the senior executive team at Telecom New Zealand as Group General Counsel, also having executive responsibility for other corporate groups as well as two business units. He is also currently the Chair of listed company Meridian Energy. Mark has previously been Chair of Freightways, Spark, Transpower NZ, Willis Bond Capital and a director of a number of other companies and entities, including ANZ Bank, the inaugural board of the Financial Markets Authority and the advisory board to NZ Treasury. In 2022 Mark was named Chairperson of the Year at the Deloitte Top 200 Awards, and in 2023 was awarded the Beacon Award for Corporate Governance by the NZ Shareholders Association. Mark has been Chair of Summerset since July 2021.