Mr. Allen has over 30 years commercial experience in the New Zealand and Australian Capital Markets.  He was Chief Executive of investment bank BZW and ABN AMRO in New Zealand for 21 years and has been actively involved in advising companies, Government and investors on matters relating to their strategies and capital markets participation.

Mr. Allen is Chair of IAG New Zealand, a Director of Hammerforce Technologies Limited and is a trustee of the Antarctic Heritage Trust.  Mr Allen is a Chartered Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Directors.

Past governance roles include Auckland Healthcare Services Limited (Director), Financial Markets Authority (Chair), NZSE (Director), NZX Limited (Chair ), Auckland Council Investments Limited (Chair) and Crown Fibre Holdings Limited along with a number of other unlisted companies

John Bourke is currently Operations manager at ExxonMobil’s Altona Refinery in Victoria, Australia.  John has over 15 years experience in Oil and Gas, across two upstream sites and three refineries.  He has worked in various operational roles at Exxon Mobil and is currently leading the Altona Refinery Operations Department through their conversion to terminal operations.

John brings extensive industry knowledge and experience to the Refining NZ board including experience addressing structural, organisational and cultural change while maintaining safe and effective operations in the refinery process.

John was nominated by Mobil Oil New Zealand Limited on invitation by the Refining NZ Board as a replacement for Riccardo Cavallo, who resigned as a director effective from 27 August 2021.

Lindis Jones is Chief Financial Officer at Z Energy Limited.  Mr Jones worked for Shell for 13 years, primarily in retail operations and strategy in Europe, Asia and New Zealand and was Head of Property at ANZ National Bank before joining Z Energy in 2010. Mr Jones is not an Independent Director as defined in the NZX Main Board Listing Rules.

James Miller has 15 years’ experience in capital markets and has held Board and leadership positions at Craigs Investment Partners and ABN AMRO. He has also had extensive experience in the downstream energy sector. James is chair of NZX Limited, and a director of Accident Compensation Corporation and Mercury NZ Limited. He was a Director of Auckland International Airport, an inaugural Director of the Financial Markets Authority, previously a Director of Vector, and a member of the INFINZ and Financial Reporting Standards Board. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Fellow of the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, a Certified Securities Analyst Professional, member of the Institute of Directors in New Zealand, and a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Lucy is currently bp’s Vice President of Regions, Cities and Solutions for Asia Pacific leading a team which focuses on green energy transition for bp and its customers in the region.  Lucy has worked for bp for the last 23 years in finance, strategy, business development, commercial and management roles and brings extensive industry experience in refining, terminals, fuel supply chain and the transistion to low carbon fuels to the Refining NZ Board.  Lucy holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree and a Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment.

A director of OneFortyOne Plantations Pty Ltd Group of Companies and the Financial Markets Authority and a member of MBIE’s Audit and Risk Committees amongst other positions.  Previously Group General Manager of Engineering and People Air New Zealand Ltd. and Chief Executive of the Australian Packaging Division of Carter Holt Harvey Ltd.

Paul Zealand has had more than 40 years operating and leadership experience in High Hazard Facilities in the Oil/Gas/Energy industries.  He is an engineer by background, and has held leadership positions on oil refineries & gas plants globally.  Prior to becoming an Independent Director, Paul was CEO of Upstream for Origin Energy in Australia, Country Chairman for Shell New Zealand, and has held executive positions in Shell companies in UK, Netherlands, New Zealand and Australia.  Currently, Paul is also a director of Genesis Energy in New Zealand, and Lochard Energy in Australia.