Governance Board

FCPA, CFInstD, MAICD
Suzanne joined the KiwiRail Board as chair in July 2025. She has extensive senior executive and governance experience across financial services, ICT, energy, global freight and logistics, central and local government sectors spanning domestic and international markets.
A Fellow of the Certified Practising Accountants of Australia and a Chartered Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Directors, Sue is the Deputy Chair and Chair of the Risk and Assurance Committee of the New Zealand Infrastructure Commision, Te Waihanga; the Deputy Chair and Chair of the People and Culture Committee of Quotable Value Limited; a Director of Quotable Value Australia Pty Limited; the Independent Chair of the Audit & Risk Committee of Hutt City Council; and an Independent Member of the Audit Committee of the Sunshine Coast Council.
Before moving into governance, Sue held executive roles as Group Chief Financial Officer of Auckland Council, Director of Consultancy at PwC, Executive Director of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Chief Operating Officer of Westpac Asia.

Jeff joined the KiwiRail Board in July 2025. Jeff is also chair of the Port Taranaki Board and has vast international governance experience across engineering, infrastructure, project management, and supply chains. A former director of Powerco Ltd, he was also on the Board and is a former chair of both Geelong Port and leading container port stevedores Patrick Terminals. He has also been a director and former chair of Arc Infrastructure, which owns and operates Western Australia’s bulk rail network, and Linx Cargo Care Group, the owner of C3 Logistics. Jeff is a member of the Australian Institute of Directors and Institute of Directors (NZ) and is a member of the NZ Institute of Engineers.

ONZM, BE Mechanical Engineering (Hons), MBA (Distinction), MAICD, CMinstD, FENZ.
Rob joined the Board in December 2022, and served as Acting Chair from July 2024 to July 2025. He has extensive executive, industry and board experience following a career of more than 43 years with Shell in a variety of executive roles. Rob also served as an independent non-executive director of Air New Zealand for nearly nine years, including as chair of the Board health, safety and security committee.
Rob chaired the independent taskforce on Workplace Health and Safety for the Government, which has been instrumental in encouraging fundamental changes to New Zealand’s approach to workplace health and safety.
He was elected a fellow of the Institute of Professional Engineers in 2015 for his contribution to the advancement of engineering practice and leadership in the profession and in 2018, he was awarded an Officer of New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) for his services to business and health and safety.

BCom and Administration, FCA, International Business Programme, Harvard Business School
Bruce was appointed to the KiwiRail Board in March 2020.
Bruce has 40 years’ experience providing financial advice to private and public sector entities. He was a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) for 25 years. He retired from PwC in 2017 but continues to work with a diverse range of companies and organisations. He is a director of New Zealand Post Limited and is chair of its Finance, Risk, and Investment Committee. He is also Chair of New Zealand Institute of Economic Research and a director of several other private companies.
Bruce's technical specialisations include large-scale infrastructure procurement processes, infrastructure financing, financial analysis, capital structuring, business case development, economic regulation, business and share valuations, and cost of capital. He provides general business, commercial and financial advice to boards of directors, other governing bodies and management.

MBA
Liz joined the Board in May 2023. Liz has extensive operational, contracting and commercial expertise gained across a diverse range of industries including large-scale infrastructure, transport, fisheries and telecommunications.
She has more than 30 years’ experience as a CEO, senior executive and strategic advisor across these sectors. She held CEO roles with Gough Group, Kennards Hire and CentrePort Ltd and is an experienced company director, spanning government, privately-owned and regulated entities such as NSW Telco Authority and Moana (formerly Aotearoa Fisheries Ltd).
She is currently a non-executive director of Service Stream Ltd, Ritchies Transport Holdings Ltd.

BE(Hons), MBA(Dist), PhD
Sina joined the Board in October 2023. She is an experienced director with a governance portfolio focussed on organisations involved with infrastructure and community impact, and currently serves on the board of Te Waihanga (the New Zealand Infrastructure Commission), Whitestone Contracting, Christchurch City Holdings, and the Ōtautahi Community Housing Trust. She brings more than 20 years’ experience as a civil engineer specialising in the design and delivery of horizontal infrastructure and asset management. Sina is a Chartered Professional Engineer, Chartered Member of the Institute of Directors and a Fellow of Engineering New Zealand.