Lyndon Settle
Lyndon attended Matamata College for five years and in his final year was Head Boy. He gained School Certificate, Sixth Form Certificate and Bursary and University Entrance in Form 7.
Lyndon played for the 1st XV 1989/90 and was a talented tennis and squash player representing the school in both racquet sports.
On leaving Lyndon attended Massey University and graduated with a Bachelor of Business Studies in Agribusiness and Management. He then did a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration Management at Massey and a Masters of Applied Finance at Melbourne University, Australia.
He has worked in banking for all of his working life starting in the Bank of New Zealand as Senior Agribusiness Manager for five years. From there Lyndon headed overseas and worked for National Australia Bank in Australia for five years before moving to Commerzbank AG in UK/Germany during 2004/2005 as Associate Director of Corporate and Institutional Banking. Back in NZ he was Client Director in Institutional Banking with Rabobank for a time before securing his current position of Managing Partner in Auckland at the Bank of New Zealand.
Lyndon has travelled extensively and spent eight years living and working abroad. Much of the time was in Victoria and Western Australia and UK/Europe (London and Frankfurt).
As well as a busy working life Lyndon is actively involved in his kids sport and he still finds time to play golf, tennis and squash (in an attempt to keep his waist line in shape!)
He is married to Mel and they have three young children – Ben (6), Andre (5) and Amelia (3).