Nick Tomlinson

Nick Tomlinson has been a member of the NZ Chamber for many years and a Board member of the NZ Chamber in Singapore from 2022, and is standing again for re-election as per the Chamber’s Constitution.   Nick has been in Singapore for almost 15 years, is married to Tetyana and has two girls, Emmeline and Madeleine, both born in Singapore. Among many events with the NZ Chamber, highlights have included being a panellist for the Chamber’s first post COVID event for International Women’s Day, chairing a panel last year on directorships and being Quizmaster for the Chamber’s 40^th Birthday Back to the 80’s Trivia Night !

Nick is the global Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer of dentsu International, one of the world’s leading advertising groups.  

Prior to that role, for more than 10 years Nick was General Counsel, dentsu Asia Pacific before taking on the challenge of leading the global Ethics and Compliance function for dentsu, in addition to leading the Asia Pacific legal and compliance team from the regional headquarters in Singapore.

Prior to working for dentsu, Nick was General Counsel and Director of Corporate Development for Reach, a global telecommunications joint venture in Hong Kong between Hong Kong’s PCCW and Australia’s Telstra.

In total, Nick has been working in Asia for more than 25 years. Nick is a New Zealander who started his legal career at Bell Gully, New Zealand’s largest law firm, before joining Vodafone in New Zealand as in-house counsel, prior to moving to Hong Kong.

Nick obtained his degree in law at Otago University, New Zealand and completed a post-graduate dissertation in Advanced Competition Law at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand where he was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand.

Nick is also a registered member of the Iwi Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki (Ngāi Tai) http://www.ngaitaitamaki.iwi.nz - the original Iwi of Tāmaki Makaurau and the Hauraki Gulf whose marae is located at Maraetai, near Auckland.