Directors & Senior Management

Board of Directors

REWI HAMID BUGO B.Sc., M.Com

Non‑Executive Chairman 

Rewi Hamid Bugo has been a Non-executive Director of General Capital Limited since 13 June 2017 and was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors following the acquisition of Corporate Holdings Limited in August 2018. Mr Bugo is a graduate of the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, where he obtained Master of Commerce degree in Business Administration. He has business experience in several sectors including property development, oil and gas services, automotive importing and distribution, insurance broking and tourism.

Mr Bugo sits on the Board of private and public companies in Malaysia and New Zealand, is a Trustee of World Wildlife Fund Malaysia, and is Vice Chairman of the Sarawak Chapter of the Malaysia New Zealand Chamber of Commerce.

BRENT DOUGLAS KING, BCom, CA, CMA

Managing Director

Brent Douglas King has been the Managing Director of General Capital Limited and its subsidiaries since 3 August 2018. Prior to that date, Mr King was a nonexecutive Director since 30 September 2011. He was also the founder and Managing Director of the Dorchester Group of Companies for seventeen (17) years until he resigned in 2005. He holds a number of public and private directorships. He has more than twenty-five (25) years’ experience in financial, investment banking, underwriting, capital raising and accounting areas and has assisted a number of public and private companies.

GREGORY STEPHEN JAMES M.Com (Hons), CA

Non-executive Independent Director

Greg James is a Senior Partner of Taxation and Mergers and Acquisitions at Findex, New Zealand’s 5th largest accounting firm. Greg has over 30 years of tax structuring and consulting experience and is a member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand. Prior to joining Findex, Greg worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers, including spending 8 years working in Hong Kong and New York. During his career, Greg has worked with numerous listed and newly listed companies and has extensive experience sourcing equity and debt funding for clients. Greg has a strong interest in cricket and is currently a director of Parnell Cricket Club and is on the board of Remuera Parnell Sports Community Charitable Trust. He is also a member of China ASEAN and is a director of a number of its group companies.

MEGAN DOMINIQUE GLEN BCom, BSc 

Non-executive Director

Megan is currently a Director in Forsyth Barr’s investment banking team and was previously a Director with Ascentro Capital Partners and a manager in the NZ Super Fund’s Direct Investments team. Megan spent over five years with Credit Suisse’s investment banking group in New York as part of their Financial Sponsors Group supporting private equity firms with acquisitions, divestments and refinancing. Megan started her career at First NZ Capital, now Jarden, advising some of New Zealand’s largest corporates. Megan is currently a member of the New Zealand Takeovers Panel and has previously held Board directorships and observer roles for private companies in New Zealand and Australia.

ANITA MARIA KILLEEN LLB 

Non-executive Independent Director

Anita is a Barrister specialising in financial crime and fraud, civil and criminal litigation, and governance and dispute resolution. Ms Killeen holds a variety of governance roles in the legal, financial, local government, education, health and not for profit sectors including having served as Chair of the Auckland Regional Amenities Funding Board, as Chair and National President of Fertility New Zealand, as Deputy Chair of Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki Commercial Investment Board, Deputy Chair of NetSafe New Zealand, Independent Director of the Domain Name Commission, and Director of the SPCA Auckland.

 

Senior Management

NICK PIMENOVBCom, CA

Chief Financial Officer

Nick is a Chartered Accountant with over 13 years industry experience. Nick’s background is in audit as well as over 8 years of finance and commercial experience in large NZ companies (2degrees, Academic Colleges Group, and Sime Darby Motors).