Nick Olson

Biography

Nick holds a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Auckland and is a Chartered Accountant. During the last 15 years Nick has served in senior roles at Telecom New Zealand, where he was Group CFO between 2010 and 2013 and at Fletcher Building, where he was Group CFO until late 2014 and most recently as Group CFO of The Todd Corporation. He was 2012 CFO of the Year (New Zealand). Nick has a background in debt capital markets and leveraged finance and worked for both Credit Suisse First Boston and JP Morgan Chase in Hong Kong from 1998 to 2001. In his corporate career Nick has been instrumental in some of the largest mergers and acquisitions transactions and debt raisings in the New Zealand market, including the demerger of Chorus from Telecom Corporation of New Zealand and the sale of the New Zealand Yellow Pages business. In addition he has led the end-to-end transformation and re-organisation of a number of substantial finance functions and in 2015 was the interim General Manager of a steel roll forming business based in Australia. Nick is married with two sons, has a passion for motorcycles, and enjoys spending time with his family in Northland.

Research Interest

Engineering