20 September 2017
Air New Zealand announces appointment of
Chief Strategy, Networks and Alliances Officer
I''m delighted to announce that Nick Judd will join the Executive as Chief
Strategy, Networks and Alliances Officer on October 2.
Nick is currently Group General Manager Commercial and replaces Stephen Jones
who leaves us shortly to join Wizz Air in Geneva.
Once again the Board and I are thrilled we have been able to promote a
world-class internal candidate into this key Executive role after conducting
an international search.
Nick is an outstanding leader who is well respected across our airline and by
key aviation, travel, tourism and trade partners around the world. He brings
to his Executive role a unique international perspective having worked for
Air New Zealand in senior finance, loyalty and commercial positions at head
office and in Australia before running Greater China and then the Americas
regions.
During his tenure in China Nick worked with stakeholders across the airline
to guide the route to profitability and in North America led the development
and implementation of our sales and market development strategies which
underpin recent growth in the United States with United Airlines and
additional capacity into Canada. His leadership has also been instrumental
in contributing to the success of the two most recent additions to the
international network - Buenos Aires and Houston.
Prior to his 14-year career with Air New Zealand, Nick spent three years
working in the United Kingdom and Canada for Chase Manhattan Bank and News
Limited in finance roles.
As we shape for future growth domestically and internationally, Nick''s deep
knowledge of customers, channels and stakeholders will be invaluable. And
the strong relationships he has built with our alliance partners, such as
United, Cathay and Air China will be critical to building on Stephen''s
excellent work in recent years.
One of the cornerstones of Nick''s portfolio will be maintaining the delivery
of our sustainability agenda, which is something he is highly passionate
about having seen first hand the influence Air New Zealand can have on
supercharging the success of New Zealand companies on the global stage.
Please join me in wishing Stephen all the best for his future endeavours in
Europe and congratulating Nick on his well-deserved appointment to our
Executive team.
Christopher Luxon
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