Andrew Thorburn the former CEO of Bank of NZ (BNZ), and also of National Australia Bank (NAB) has three children with his wife Kathryn Thorburn. Andrew and his wife Kathryn have been married since 1987.
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Andrew joined ASB Bank in Auckland, NZ in 1986.
Eleven years later, he moved to Sydney to join the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and then joined St George Bank in 2002.
He moved to NAB in January 2005 as Head of Retail Banking and three years later, he was appointed to be CEO of BNZ.

In 2014, he was madde the CEO of NAB.
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While at NAB, he moved to divest of non core assets and focus on Aust/NZ.
He launched a transformation of NAB in 2017 involving greater investment in technology, a reduction in costs, and an investment in business banking.
Three years layer, he took up a role as executive director at For Purpose Investment Partners, a social impact funds manager.
A year later, it was announced that he was working at Impact Investment Group in a part time executive capacity for a few months, but also that he was the Chair of Catalyst Education (acquired by For Purpose), and was also confirmed as a senior advisor at BCG, and is the Board Chair at ATMOS Financial, a U.S climate fintech startup.
He is also the current CEO of Essendon Football club.


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