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Garry Mackrell was appointed Head of International Financial Services in September 2001. In this role Garry is responsible for a range of life insurance retirement savings and banking businesses in New Zealand Asia and the Pacific.
Prior to this he was Head of CEO Office and Group Planning and Development primarily responsible for strategic planning industry policy and mergers and acquisitions for the Commonwealth Bank.
Garry joined the Bank in 1973. In 1975 he transferred from Townsville to the Bank’s Economic and Research division as an economist and was appointed Manager Balance Sheet Risk Management in 1980 and Senior Manager Investments in 1983.
Garry was then appointed Chief Manager Treasury Management in 1984. In 1986 he was appointed to the role of Regional Treasurer and Deputy Regional Manager Americas where he established regional treasury operations in New York and Los Angeles.
In 1987 Garry returned to Australia to head up Capital Markets institutional Banking and in 1991 was appointed Chief Executive of AEFC Limited.
In 1993 he was appointed to Head of Financial Markets Distribution Institutional Banking and in 1995 moved to the Group planning role.
Additional Information
In his role as Group Executive Garry is a Board member/Chairman of a number of offshore and domestic subsidiary companies of the Group.
Garry has a Bachelor of Science Bachelor of Economics (Hons) and a Master of Commerce.
He is married with three children. | 