Bank empowering women through recent appointments

KINA Bank on Friday announced new appointments to the bank’s executive team showing its commitment to the country’s women in leadership.
Two new roles, created to drive the bank’s growth agenda, would see Lesieli Taviri, former chief executive officer of Origin Energy, take on the position of executive general manager, banking and Asi Nauna, an internal candidate, promoted to executive general manager, lending.
Kina Bank in a statement said the roles were critical to the success of the business and would ensure the bank would deliver on its longer-term ambitions, outperform its competitors and exceed market expectations.
The bank said the appointment of the two female leaders would add significant strength to the executive team. They would report to the chief executive officer.
Kina Bank managing director Greg Pawson said having more women on the executive team was important to the bank as a business.
“It provides diversity of thought, a greater range of perspectives, more ideas, and ultimately leads to better decision making,” Pawson said.
“Our business will benefit tremendously from the strength and capability of Lesieli and Asi.
“We also want to be the best employer in PNG and this kind of achievement will only come when you remove potentially ingrained inequalities and counter unconscious bias.
“Our ambitious growth plans for the next five years will see our business continue to transform.
“We’ve made huge progress on this already, the success of which we’ve seen in our half year results.
“Now, with two new female leaders, we will be able to help transform how business is done in PNG.”
Taviri is one of PNG’s most highly regarded executive leaders.
She holds a number of high-profile board roles including the chair of the Business Coalition for Women.