Spark New Zealand announced Stefan Knight will become Chief Financial Officer, effective 1 March 2020. Mr. Knight will succeed David Chalmers who after three years is leaving to return home with his family to Melbourne, Australia. Currently Finance Lead Partner, Mr. Knight has been with Spark since 2003 and has worked across a range of finance- and business performance-related roles.

He played a key role over recent years in important Spark initiatives, including the Turnaround and Quantum business improvement programmes and, more recently, was part of the leadership group that helped shape the organisation's move to an Agile way of working. Spark also announced that Ms Leela Gantman will take on the role of Corporate Relations Director in January 2020, succeeding Andrew Pirie who, as was announced in August, is leaving his leadership role at Spark at the end of 2019. Ms Gantman is a highly-experienced corporate communications professional with over 18 years experience in corporate and agency roles in New Zealand and Australia.

She has been head of communications at Fletcher Building since April 2017, and prior to this was external relations director at beverages group Lion in Australia.