Joe McCollum

Joe McCollum joined Spark New Zealand in November 2012 as Group HR Director, bringing over 30 years of global experience in leading transformational HR initiatives at companies undergoing significant
change and operating in rapidly changing markets. Joe understands the critical importance of organisational culture on success, and is influencing the cultural shift underway within Spark New Zealand.

Prior to joining the company, he worked in the UK in the music and media businesses - initially with EMI in 2004, managing the sale of EMI to a private-equity company, before joining news media group DMGT in 2008.  He remained with DMGT until returning in 2012 to New Zealand, where he had previously worked in the hospitality industry as HR Director for Lion Nathan between 1989 and 1996. At the end of 1997 he returned to the UK to take up the role of worldwide HR Director for ICI, a global chemical company with 65,000 employees. He joined Misys in 1999 - a global software company recognised as a world leader in various segments. Joe also worked in Saudi Arabia for 5 years in the 1970’s as the HR Director for a 4,500-staff hospital company before joining Pepsi initially in Cyprus and then in the headquarters in New York. He obtained his MSc in Business Studies from Columbia University.