Playing golf with Sir John Key was one highlight of the past 12 months for Gary Lane.
The low key businessman teamed up with the former prime minister for the Men's Health Trust's annual Charity Golf Tournament at Lane’s Wairakei course in Taupo.
The annual ambrose-style tournament raised over $30,000 for the charity.
Lane is on the board of Predator Free 2050 Ltd, the entity set up to implement the government’s pest free programme initiated when Sir John was in power.
Lane is well qualified, having already built his own sanctuary fence around the Wairakei golf course, which he bought in 2009.
Since then he has invested millions of dollars erecting a 5.5km boundary fence to exclude all pests and predators.
The former owner of Lanes Biscuits, Hansells and Healtheries maintains business interests through a majority ownership of US-registered Antipodean Pharmaceuticals, the company behind MitoQ, a breakthrough and revolutionary topical antioxidant therapy that has an anti-aging and rejuvenation effect on the skin.
He has properties on some of Auckland's most recognisable streets and retains interests in super yacht builder Alloy Yachts.