Jim Minto
LP
Jim Minto was appointed Managing Director of TOWER Australia Group Limited in November 2006 following the separation of the Australian and New Zealand businesses of the TOWER Limited group. He had previously been Group Managing Director of TOWER Limited, overseeing the trans-Tasman TOWER businesses and reporting to the TOWER Limited Board. Jim joined TOWER Limited in 1988 in New Zealand, as head of the Group's Trust business and led several other TOWER businesses in New Zealand (including the Managed Funds and Health & Life) before taking on the role of Chief Executive Officer of TOWER New Zealand in early 2002. He left the New Zealand business in November 2002 to take up the role of Chief Executive Officer of TOWER Australia and then in March 2005, he was appointed Chief Executive of the trans-Tasman TOWER Limited Group.