New Zealand Institute for the study of competition and regulation inc.

Investment banker Rob Cameron has been appointed Chairman of the ISCR Board. Rob takes over from Richard Bentley, who has recently been appointed to the Electricity Commission.

Rob is the founding partner of Cameron Partners Limited, established in July 1995.   

Cameron Partners is New Zealand's leading independent investment bank.  It has one of New Zealand's largest corporate finance teams with 17 experienced professionals and operates from offices in Wellington and Auckland.

Cameron Partners provides advice on mergers, acquisitions, takeovers, divestments, fundraisings, IPOs, restructurings and business strategy.  It regularly ranks in the top five of the Thomson Financial Merger and Acquisition league tables.

With more than 23 years experience, Rob is recognised as one of New Zealand's most experienced and skilled investment bankers.   Rob has led many of New Zealand's high-profile transactions and advisory mandates over a number of years.   At Cameron Partners major mandates include providing independent advice to Fonterra on its capital structure project, advisor to the Independent Directors of Carter Holt Harvey in relation to the takeover offer from Rank Group Limited, advisor to Fletcher Challenge Forests on the sale of forest assets and Wrightson on a range of initiatives including the sale of Wrightson Farmers Finance.   In 2001 Rob was appointed leader in the Crown negotiating team in relation to the restructuring and recapitalisation of Air New Zealand.

Early in his career Rob was a senior advisor at The Treasury where he played a central role in the policy development and formulation of the State Owned Enterprise Model. He joined one of New Zealand's major sharebroking firms in 1984 and became Head of Research. In 1987 he established the investment banking services of Fay, Richwhite & Company Limited. Here, he was a Director and Head of Investment Banking and led a number of their M&A and capital management mandates. They included advising Bell Atlantic and Ameritech on the acquisition of Telecom New Zealand, and managing the public float of Telecom New Zealand.

He has a BCA in Economics with First Class Honours from Victoria University and an MPA (Finance & Economics) from Harvard University. He is a Harkness Fellow, a Hunter Fellow of Victoria University, a member of the Board of Trustees of Special Olympics New Zealand, a member of the Advisory Board for the Victoria University Faculty of Commerce and the School of Government and a member of the Supporters Council of Enterprise NZ Trust.