Brent Pattison has been appointed chief financial officer of Oceania Healthcare, New Zealand’s third largest residential aged care provider.
He replaces Matthew Ward, who guiding the company through its NZ$200 million (US$140.3 million) in May 2017. He leaves at the end of March.
A retirement and aged care sector specialist, Pattison has more than a decade of experience in investment banking; leading mergers and acquisitions, takeovers and capital market transactions including IPOs at Jarden and Forsyth Barr. Indeed he was lead adviser on the Oceania Healthcare IPO.
Pattison is a qualified chartered accountant CA and has held senior finance roles in NZ corporations across telecommunications and the financial services industry.