Change was the order of the day at the Registered Master Builders Federation AGM at the Federation’s Conference 2012 in Tauranga recently.
With resounding support from member delegates, the Board and management of the RMBF are set to implement positive change to the organisation to take it into the future, and maintain its dominant position as the industry’s leading membership organisation.
Steering the organisation for the next few years will be an enthusiastic Board which welcomed new directors, saw a number of current directors move into new roles and bid farewell to two long-serving industry stalwarts.
New to the Board are Simon Barber (RMB Wellington) and Alistair Middleton (RMB Nelson). Shane Brealey of NZ Strong Ltd, an RMB Auckland member is also a new Board-appointed director.
Movement within the Board included Anthony Leighs to chairman, David Fabish to president and John Macdonald to vice-president. The AGM also saw Greg Pritchard (RMB Auckland) re-elected, while Richard Carver of Jennian Holdings remains for another term as a Board-appointed director.
“The make-up of the RMBF Board bodes well for leadership into the future,” RMBF chief executive Warwick Quinn says.
“We’re all operating in difficult and interesting times, and we believe we have the right group of people to get us through this and set the RMBF on a positive path while continuing to offer our members an environment second to none.”
The AGM also saw the departure of two very long-serving RMBF directors in chairman Mike Fox and president Blair Cranston.
Huge contribution
The contribution by these two gentlemen over the years has been huge. Both had upwards of 10 years’ service to the organisation, as well as contributions to many and varied industry groups.
“We are incredibly grateful to the dedication and support from Mike and Blair to the RMBF and our subsidiary Master Build Services, of which Mike still remains a director,” Mr Quinn says.
“Their passion for our organisation and the industry in general is a hard-to-find commodity especially as, more and more, we live in a world where finding people willing to give up their time is a very rare thing indeed. They will be missed.”
One highlight of the AGM proceedings was the awarding of an RMBF Meritorious Award to Robert Finley for outstanding service to the RMBF and the industry as a whole.
With the next Board meeting in just a few weeks, the new recruits will very shortly be fully immersed in the RMBF business and getting out and about to meet the membership and to discuss plans for the future.
