About Us

The Fletcher Building Employee Education Fund (EEF) is a private trust fund dedicated to enhancing the lives of Fletcher Building employees in New Zealand, Australia, and the South Pacific Islands.

The focus of the EEF is to provide financial support for education and training initiatives for Fletcher Building employees. The fund aims to prioritise and enable personal and professional growth opportunities for employees through educational endeavours.

If you are interested in applying for funding, please visit our funding opportunities page to select the fund you would like to apply for.

Our People

  • Trustee

    John is an independent Trustee of The Fletcher Building Employee Educational Fund.

    John's career spans 30 years in senior finance, management and board positions at Fletcher Challenge Limited from which he retired in 2002. He has considerable international experience in management, corporate governance best practice and as a director and audit committee member of private and publicly listed companies.

    He is also a Trustee of The Tenon Employee Educational Fund.

  • Chairperson & Trustee

    Claire joined Fletcher Building in 2013 as the General Manager of Human Resources for the Construction Division. In 2015 she moved across to the General Manager People and Performance of the Building Products Division, and in 2017 was appointed Chief People Officer of the Fletcher Building Group. Prior to joining Fletcher Building, she was Head of HR – Product and Technology at Spark New Zealand. Claire has also worked at Deutsche Bank and NatWest Markets in the United Kingdom.

    Claire holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree (majoring in Marketing and Management) from The University of Auckland.

  • Trustee

    Rebecca is a partner at Simpson Grierson and leads the firm’s Employment National Practice Group.

    Experienced in all aspects of employment law, her expertise includes advising on personal grievance claims, restraints of trade, restructuring, holiday pay compliance and remediation, disciplinary, and performance management processes. She has represented clients in cases before the Employment Relations Authority through to the Court of Appeal.

    Rebecca provides advice to clients in a range of sectors, including health, education, local government, banking and finance, building, engineering and manufacturing and forestry. She has further developed her expertise through secondments in the banking and building/construction sectors. Rebecca is also a regular columnist for BusinessDesk on employment related matters.

  • Fund Manager

    Kath has worked with the FB EEF since 2003 and in 2019 took up the responsibility of Fund Manager, working on behalf of the Trustees and the FB EEF beneficiaries. Previously Kath worked in administrative roles with the Building Products Sector of what was then Fletcher Challenge Limited. Kath joined Fletcher Challenge in 1995 and for a number of years also assisted with the coordination of the Fletcher Building in-house events. She is therefore very familiar with the EEF beneficiary base.