Bruce Sheridan

Board chair

Bruce Sheridan has been involved with the Group since it began nearly 20 years ago.

Bruce is a fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants and was chair of one of its national committees for several years. From 1985 to 2006, he was a business advisory partner in KPMG, an organisation that provides financial, business and taxation advice to a variety of commercial and community enterprises.

Bruce has been on the boards of charitable trusts running social enterprises. He has also been a director of commercial boards in a range of industries.

Bruce's past roles have included chairing the Export Institute (Waikato Branch) and the Waikato Education Foundation, and he was also vice chair of the Institute of Directors (Waikato Bay of Plenty Branch), of which he is an accredited member.

He is currently on the board of Te Pou, New Zealand's National Centre of Mental Health Research, Information and Workforce Development.