Julia Hoare
Good morning, everyone. I’m Julia Hoare, Chair at Auckland Airport, and it’s my absolute pleasure to welcome you all here today for the 2025 Annual Meeting, including those of you who are joining us here today online.
Before I get started with the proceedings, I do want to apologize for those — to those of you in the room for the venue. We had actually Eden Park booked for today, but for those who are cricket lovers, we got bumped at the last minute for the T20. So we had to relocate. And I appreciate — I think there’s some racing happening here today, so it was a bit of a nightmare to try and park and actually to come through that tunnel and the stairs. So for many of you, I appreciate it would have been an unsatisfactory experience arriving at the start this morning, so for that, I sincerely apologize.
Just getting back into the proceedings. With us today are my fellow directors, and I’ll ask them to put their hands up as I call their names out: firstly, Christine Spring, Mark Binns, Tania Simpson, Dean Hamilton, Liz Savage, Mark Cairns and Grant Devonport. Both Mark Cairns and Liz Savage are standing for reelection as independent directors and will address the meeting prior to the vote today. We’ll also be hearing from our Chief Executive, Carrie Hurihanganui. And also here today is our Chief Financial Officer, Stewart Reynolds, our other executives and our auditors and legal counsel as well.
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