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Fairless leaves BNZ
Tuesday 3rd of September 2002
The head of marketing role at Bank of New Zealand Investments and Insurance has been disestablished.Nigel Fairless who is head of marketing has decided to pursue other interests and will leave BNZ Investments and Insurance on 5 September. Fairless will continue to do some work on the Telesales pilot during September.
Fairless joined the investments and insurance team in 1994 as head of cl...
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