Summerset Group Holdings has appointed Venasio (Vena) Crawley to its board.
Vena Crawley, newly appointed to the Summerset board, is the chief customer officer at Contact Energy covering a diverse range of areas including strategy, pricing, finance, digital, call centres and health and safety.
Mr Crawley is also an advisory board member at Auckland University of Technology and was a future director for The Warehouse Group during 2017-2018.
Summerset chair Rob Campbell welcomed Vena saying he has a wide range of experience from across a number of sectors.
“Vena has a wealth of experience in strategy, marketing and equity capital markets from customer-focused businesses. We are a people business, and Vena’s skills will enhance the strengths of the board. We look forward to him joining us.”
The appointment brings the board to seven members, all of whom are independent. Vena Crawley joins the board as a non-executive independent director on February 1, 2020.
He holds an MBA and BA from Steinbeis University in Germany and has studied at Virginia State University’s Darden School of Business. He’s worked in New Zealand and internationally across seven different sectors and is fluent in five languages.
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