Newly appointed chief executive David Chin has held various leadership roles at LIC since 2006.
LIC has appointed David Chin as its new chief executive.
Chin is LIC’s general manager operations and service, on the co-operative’s senior leadership team and is responsible for its laboratories, farms and the field teams that deliver services on-farm, including artificial breeding, herd testing and FarmWise consultancy.
He has held various other leadership roles at LIC since 2006, including chief transformation officer, key account manager and marketing manager.
Chair Murray King says “the board is pleased to appoint David, a highly regarded leader at LIC who has extensive experience in the business”.
“It really is great news for the co-op that we have the depth of talent to appoint from within LIC to provide continuity for the wider team and our farmers,” King said.
“David has a natural empathy for people, knows our farmers well and knows the business having led several key strategic initiatives, including overseeing the recent transformation programme. Importantly, David was heavily involved in the refinement of LIC’s strategy earlier this year.
“The implementation of this strategy will continue to be a key focus for the co-op under David’s leadership, as well as the continued strength of LIC’s financial performance.”
Chin says “it’s a tremendous privilege to be named the next chief executive of LIC, a great company with a critical role in New Zealand’s dairy industry and a great team of dedicated people”.
“I’ve been fortunate to get to know many of these people, as well as many of our farmers over the last 15 years and it is truly an honour to be given this opportunity to lead the co-op,” Chin said.
He takes over from Wayne McNee, who left the role this week.
“I’d like to thank Wayne for all his hard work – he leaves LIC in a strong position and I look forward to building on this with the board, the LIC team and our farmers,” he said.
Chin officially starts in the new role on January 17, at which time interim chief executive David Hazlehurst will return to the role of chief financial officer.
