Deloitte Top 200 judges

Fran O’Sullivan is Head of Business (Content) for NZME and a high-profile business columnist for the New Zealand Herald. She has a strong interest in New Zealand’s international business success and is a frequent television commentator and public speaker.

Fran is executive editor of the Herald’s influential Mood of the Boardroom – the premier CEOs survey in New Zealand. She also chairs the NZ US Council’s Friends Board and is a member of the NZ China Council. She is a regular participant in NZ’s international partnership forums and chairs the Metropolis Body Corporate.

Fran is a former editor of National Business Review, is an INFINZ fellow and has an award-winning track record in business journalism. 

Jonathan Mason has over 30 years of experience in financial management roles in the oil, chemicals, forest products, and dairy industries with an emphasis on emerging markets.

Jonathan was CFO of Fonterra Co-operative, CFO of Cabot Corporation (a Boston based chemical company), and CFO of Carter Holt Harvey. Jonathan also served in senior financial management positions at US based International Paper from 1990-2000.

Jonathan is currently a director of numerous large organisations and an Honorary Adjunct Professor of Accounting and Finance at the University of Auckland. 

Darren has over 30 years’ experience in buy-side and sell-side roles in New Zealand capital markets. He is an Executive Director and Co-Head of Markets at Forsyth Barr, a leading New Zealand wealth management, sharebroking and investment banking business.

Darren is a member of the New Zealand Markets Disciplinary Tribunal, a trustee of the University of Auckland School of Medical & Health Sciences Foundation and a member of the University of Auckland Foundation Investment Committee. 

Gavin Lonergan is a partner in leading private equity firm Direct Capital. The firm has raised more than $1.7 Billion in capital and invested in over 80 private companies since its establishment in 1994.

In his 27 years with the firm, Gavin has served on a number of Direct Capital’s portfolio company boards, and he is a previous chair of the New Zealand Private Capital Association. He is currently a director of Qestral Corporation and Caci Group.

Hinerangi Raumati is a fellow of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand and a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit. She is an experienced governor with a focus on post settlement iwi entities and Māori commercial entities. Hinerangi has a particular interest in driving Māori economic development and creating models of governance that capture tikanga and mātauranga as an appropriate lens for doing business in Aotearoa.

She is the current chair of Tainui Group Holdings Ltd and the iwi investment company of Ngāti Mutunga. She is on the board of Genesis Energy, the NZ Super Fund and Taranaki Iwi Holdings and Pouarua Farms GP. Her iwi are Ngāti Mutunga and Waikato. Hinerangi was also a member of the Tax Working Group in 2019.

Juliet Tainui-Hernandez (Ngāi Tahu, Te Whakatōhea) has 25 years’ experience across varied executive leadership and governance roles in the professional advisory, financial services, and iwi spheres. Juliet returned home in 2020 after two decades offshore to take up a directorship on the board of Ngāi Tahu Holdings and an executive leadership role at Te Pūtea Matua, the Reserve Bank of NZ, where she served as an Assistant Governor until 2024. She is now a full-time professional director. 

Juliet is passionate about diversity, equity and inclusion, people and organisational well-being, and integrating Te Ao Māori as a means of creating a stronger and more prosperous Aotearoa. She qualified as a Barrister and Solicitor in Aotearoa in 1999, in Australia (NSW) in 2001, and in England and Wales in 2007 and has also worked in risk and regulation, conduct and culture, business transformation and change, strategy and innovation and broad leadership and people-related roles. 

Dame Ranjna, with her husband Kanti, set up the East Tamaki Healthcare Business in 1977. Tamaki Health has 50 clinics serving over 330,000 registered patients, and is the largest private primary healthcare and telehealth provider in New Zealand. In 2014 she founded Gandhi Nivas, a family harm initiative that has seen amazing results in non-recidivism in men. Dame Ranjna has extensive involvement in charitable and community groups for which she received a QSM in 2009 and ONZM in 2017. She sits on many advisory boards: Diversity Works NZ as Deputy Chair, Mental Health, ISSO Swaminarayan Temple, New Zealand Police National Ethnic Forum, Counties Manukau Police Advisory Board and Chair of Indian Ink. Over the years she has been on NACEW, Lotteries Distribution Committee, Middlemore Foundation, Co of Women, Global Women, and Director of Bank of Baroda. She was past chair of the NZCIA Women’s Group and President of the Manukau Indian Association.

Rob is currently Chair of Ara Ake Limited and New Zealand Rural Land Company. He also holds the position of Chancellor at Auckland University of Technology. Rob has over 30 years’ experience in capital markets and has previously been a director of or advisor to a range of investment fund and private equity groups in New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong and the United States of America.

In 2019, Rob was awarded a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit 2019 (CNZM) and received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Victoria University of Wellington.

Rob holds a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours in Economic History and Political Science and a Master of Philosophy in Economics.