How to resolve AdBlock issue? Rabobank Aust-NZ appoints new chief HR officer, Kathryn Marler
RABOBANK Australia and New Zealand group has appointed Kathryn Marler to the position of group executive chief human resources officer.
Ms Marler will lead the HR and corporate affairs functions across the bank’s Australian and New Zealand operations, joining the regional Australia and New Zealand executive team and reporting to Caroline Oosterbaan, the CEO of Rabobank Australia and regional manager for Australia and New Zealand. 
Ms Oosterbaan said Ms Marler brought to the role “extensive people and culture experience in complex, highly-regulated organisations, together with deep banking knowledge and a strong commitment to building high-performing, future-ready teams”.
“Kathryn’s blend of deep banking-sector expertise and large-scale transformation experience was central to her appointment,” Ms Oosterbaan said.
“Operating within a global cooperative structure, Rabobank sought a leader able to continue to build a people and culture strategy consistent with the Rabobank Group, while remaining genuinely responsive to the needs of the Australian and New Zealand business,” she said.
Ms Marler joined Rabobank from Westpac Banking Corporation, where she held a number of senior leadership roles shaping enterprise-wide transformation and delivering people and culture strategy.
Part of the global cooperative Rabobank Group, which as a global presence as a specialist food and agribusiness bank, Rabobank Australia and New Zealand is one of the region’s leading agricultural banks and a major provider of corporate and business banking services to the Australian and New Zealand food and agribusiness sectors.
Rabobank also provides online retail savings and deposits in the Australian and New Zealand markets.
Ms Marler said she “is excited to join Rabobank at such an important time for the bank and the sector it serves”.
“Rabobank's cooperative culture, and its deep, long-term commitment to Australian and New Zealand farmers and food producers, is something I've long admired,” she said.
“I'm looking forward to partnering with Caroline and the leadership team to build the workforce capability that will carry that mission forward.
Ms Marler commences in the role on October 6.
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