Face-to-Face is a new feature from newzealandinc.com where we sit down for a chat with young business leaders from around the globe. We’ll be running a special series of these from China where we talk to young New Zealanders doing big things on the ground here. Shifting lenses and taking a look at China from the perspective of a …

The government’s flagship innovation vehicle, Callaghan Innovation, will be led by Mary Quin. Described by Business, Innovation and Employment Minister Steven Joyce as “an exceptional New Zealander with an impressive track record of working in the US engineering and technology sector,” Quin trained as a material scientist, with a doctorate from Northwestern University, Illinois. A graduate of Canterbury University’s engineering …

Solid Energy opposed the government’s pressure to load more debt on its balance sheet in 2009, but the biggest driver of the $389 million debt that has driven the company into crisis were decisions of its own to invest in the open-cast Stockton and underground Spring Creek mines. The financially distressed state coal miner’s former chairman and chief executive, John …