JOSIE ADLAM

Boards

Josie’s personal motivation in providing governance services as an independent director is to support and accelerate the advance of high growth businesses.

Boards

Josie’s personal motivation in providing governance services as an independent director is to support and accelerate the advance of high growth businesses.

In particular, she has a passion for the development of start-up and early-stage technology innovators, recognising the unique challenges of their business aspirations and market environments, especially when international growth intentions are involved.

She has a fresh and open approach to new business development, considering both conventional and progressive models, which enables her to have an incredibly balanced perspective in terms of both cost-optimisation and value-generation business opportunities.

Good governance

Josie embraces good governance practices for businesses of all lifestages as an enabler to get better results faster, ranging from formal board environments to advisory boards, and including  best-practices for self-governance within early stage businesses.

She is an experienced and strategic Independent Director with Chair experience and a unique mix of governance and industry skills and experience. Her governance portfolio has consistently focussed on a blend of public sector, commercial, and social organisations to allow her a diverse and balanced perspective of issues addressing industry ecosystems.

Josie has a passion for the development of start-up and early-stage technology innovators, recognising the unique challenges of their business aspirations and market environments, especially when international growth intentions are involved.

 She has a fresh and open approach to new business development, considering both conventional and progressive models, which enables her to have an incredibly balanced perspective in terms of both cost-optimisation and value-generation business opportunities.

Current Positions

  • Magnetism Solutions – Chair
  • Sustainability Trust – Co-Chair
  • Compass Housing New Zealand – Director
  • Tautoko Services – Board Member and previous Chair
  • Lottery Community Committee Member – Wellington/Wairarapa

    Previous Positions

    • Palmerston North Airport – Director & Audit & Risk Committee Member
    • Mojo Coffee – Director 
    • Fresh Focus Ltd. – Director 
    • Rosa Foods Limited – Advisory Board 
    • Haunt Digital – Chair
    • BravaTrak Limited – Advisory Board Chair

    Memberships

    • Institute of Directors