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The Otago Boys' High School Foundation

PO Box 11,
Dunedin, New Zealand

Tel +64 3 477 2546
Fax +64 3 477 5468

New Highlanders' boss

20/10/2009

Ross Laidlaw (1963-67) is the new chairman of the Highlanders’ rugby franchise.

Ross Laidlaw

He takes the reins from Stuart McLauchlan (1971-75) on both the board and as chairman, with the new role meaning he will resign as a member of the Otago Rugby Football Union board on which he has sat for the past two years.

Ross is a retired corporate lawyer, who now lives in Wanaka, and as a member of the Otago board he is familiar with some of the issues facing the Highlanders.

He says his first task will be to become thoroughly familiar with the whole business and will get up to speed by talking to those most involved as soon as possible.

Ross secured his legal degree at the University of Otago and then gained a masters degree in law from Yale University in Connecticut, where he was also a postgraduate fellow. He worked for law firms in Invercargill, Auckland and London and has pursued his own business interests since the mid-1980s.

He has been involved with businesses in the bloodstock, energy and commercial property sectors.

One of new chairman’s Board members is another Otago Boys’ alumnus Adrian Read (1963-67).