{"id":382019,"date":"2026-04-16T06:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/382019\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T06:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:12:09","slug":"ex-xero-staffer-ally-naylor-lays-complaint-with-police-over-sir-rod-drury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/382019\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex\u2011Xero staffer Ally Naylor lays complaint with police over Sir Rod Drury"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Xero<\/p>\n

\nSir Rod Drury is a former Xero chief executive and 2026 New Zealander of the year.
\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Diego Opatowski\n<\/p>\n

Former Xero staffer Ally Naylor says she has laid a complaint with the police about former chief executive and 2026 New Zealander of the Year Sir Rod Drury<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The complaint alleges misconduct when Naylor was a junior Xero employee in 2017.<\/p>\n

The accounting software company has launched a review into its handling of the allegations at the time<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Naylor told RNZ she expects to speak with police about her complaint next week.<\/p>\n

Police have refused to confirm to RNZ whether they are investigating Sir Rod, who founded Xero in 2006 and was its chief executive until 2018.<\/p>\n

Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir Rod Drury is a former Xero chief executive and 2026 New Zealander of the year. Photo: RNZ…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[48,138,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-382019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-current-affairs","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-podcasts","16":"tag-public-radio","17":"tag-radio-new-zealand","18":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}