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CV - Cliff King

 

Birth Date:
15 – 06 – 1943
Personal:  
Cliff is married to Jan Winifred (for 40 years) and has three children (married) and seven grandchildren
Qualifications: 
Diploma of Agriculture
Diploma of Valuation Farm Management (1966)
Registered valuer (35 yrs) NZIV retired
Farm Consultant (15 yrs) NZIPM retired
Justice of the Peace (30 yrs)
Past Directorships:
  • Ascot Management Corporation (NZ) (PLC)
  • New Zealand Rural Property Trust Management Limited
  • Australian Rural Management Limited
  • Land Perpetuities Limited
  • Agricultural Investments Limited
  • Agricultural Resources Limited
  • Komano Farms Limited
  • Waituna Dairy Limited
  • Longrow Pastoral Limited
  • Mt Linton Station Limited
  • Dairy Brands Limited (PLC) and 14 subsidiary companies
  • Sherwood Pastoral Limited
  • Duncan Land Company Limited
  • AGRI-Biotech Limited
Current Directorships:
  • Quality Roads and Services Limited
  • Sherwood Investments
  • King Pastoral Limited
  • AGInvest Limited
  • QRS Aglime Limited
  • Harrier Exports Limited
  • Tasman Meat Company Limited
Work Experience: 
Practical farming, 14 years
Funds management - establishment of New Zealand’s first public unlisted unit trust NZ Rural Property Trust, 4 years (NZ $60.5 million)
Rural property portfolio procurement/management – 105 farms
Funds management – private syndication and equity placement of term business, 16 years ($65 million)
Public company management, 6 years (Ascot Management, Dairy Brands Ltd)
Industry strategic contracts (consultancy and services)
  • BNZ Review of rural lending policy
  • AFFCO 6 years (procurement, demutualisation, recapitalisation
  • NZ Wool Board 2 years (restructure, Fernlink)
  • Kiwi-Tui company merger
  • Fonterra (fencepost.com, livestock on line)
  • Westpac Bank
Four family business restructures 1990 ongoing
Current Position:
Director & partner AGInvest Limited
3 Active directorships
Family investments
Interests: 
Rotary past President/director Havelock North Rotary Club
Team leader GSE exchange groups Switzerland 1996
International travel to extensive pastoral farming regions of South America, Asia and China
Sport – fishing, sailing, rugby
Family