| Speakers Day 2 |
| Marcus Akuhata-Brown Marcus Akuhata-Brown (Ngāi Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāi Tahu) grew up on the East Coast of the North Island. He trained as a teacher and has led a number of innovative alternative education programmes addressing the needs of youth at risk and young offenders. He is a gifted facilitator and communicator and has represented New Zealand internationally in a variety of roles including as a member of the Commonwealth Youth Caucus. In 2000 he founded Tukaha Global Consultancy and he currently divides his time between speaking and consultancy work, land development in Te Araroa and personal studies through Te Wananga o Raukawa. | |
| Andrew Bascand Andrew Bascand is portfolio manager and managing director at Harbour Asset Management. He leads the investment team responsible for the Harbour Australasian Equity Fund. Andrew works closely with Harbour’s research analysts to review existing Fund holdings and to generate new ideas for the Fund. Prior to joining Harbour Asset Management, Andrew spent 10 years with Alliance Bernstein (NZ) as Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager responsible for portfolio construction of all Australasian mandates. In that role Andrew and his team were consistently recognised by the industry for excellence in funds management. Andrew has more than 25 years’ investment management experience in roles with the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Bank of England, AMP and Merrill Lynch Global Asset Management (UK), where he managed global equity accounts for pension funds in Japan, Sweden, Spain, Chile, England, the US, Germany and South Africa. Andrew is an AFA. | |
| Precious Clark Precious Clark (Ngāti Whatua, Tainui) has a legal background and is passionate about Maori development. She is a director on Ngāti Whatua Orakei Whai Rawa Ltd, the investment arm of Ngāti Whatua Orakei, a trustee of the ASB Community Trust, a director on the Centre for Social Impact, a board member of the Independent Māori Statutory Board and the Auckland Museum Taumata-a-Iwi, a member of the Institute of Directors, an executive member of Advancement of Māori Opportunities, and a member of the National Māori Lawyers Association. Precious is also an experienced performer who performed the karanga at the opening ceremony of the Rugby World Cup 2011. Her most challenging and rewarding role, however, is as a mother to her daughter Taiaaria. | |
| Justine Cornwall Dr Justine Cornwall is the Deputy Children’s Commissioner. She has extensive leadership, public policy, and research and evaluation experience across the government sector. She has worked extensively with NGOs to address family violence and victims’ rights issues, and has a wealth of experience related to children, young people and families. | |
| Annette Culpan Annette Culpan is manager of the Vodafone New Zealand Foundation. She is also a Philanthropy New Zealand board member, a volunteer counsellor and a refugee advocate. Her background is in commercial, corporate and philanthropy. In 2002 she was one of the inaugural Vodafone Foundation World of Difference recipients. She spent the year managing a health trust in Indonesia that worked with bomb victims and ran mobile clinics. More recently she visited India to look at social enterprise models and she is developing a paper exploring the untapped potential of social enterprise in New Zealand. Annette is passionate about insights-led and evidence-based practice. | |
| Allan English Allan English is a Brisbane-based entrepreneur who founded ASX-listed Company Silver Chef in 1986. In 2010 Allan stepped down as CEO of Silver Chef to set up the English Family Foundation. Allan is an engaging and inspiring speaker who has set himself some “big hairy audacious goals” – including funding 1 million people out of poverty in India by 2020. He admits that the space he works in is not particularly sexy: “I tend to go for the tougher issues in our community, those which sometimes get ignored or put into the too hard basket.” Allan was named the 2014 Australian Philanthropy Leader of the Year. He also serves on a number of not for profit boards. | |
| Lani Evans Lani Evans is chief executive of Thankyou Payroll, a social business that provides free payroll intermediary services to businesses and charities all over New Zealand and donates 25 cents per person, per pay to community organisations. Lani is also a trustee for the Malcam Charitable Trust and co-chair of the West Harbour Beautification Trust. She has a background in documentary making, and a long history of working in the not-for-profit sector in both New Zealand and Australia. She is also an adventurer whose achievements include walking the length of the South Island – over 21 mountain passes – in 84 days, and kayaking to, and climbing, four remote sea pillars on the Tasmanian coast in one day. Lani has recently become a member of the Board of Philanthropy New Zealand. | |
| Audette Exel Audette Exel is co-founder of the Adara Group (formerly the ISIS Group) which is made up of two parts – Adara Advisors and Adara Development. Adara Advisors is a corporate finance and private placement business set up for the sole purpose of funding Adara Development, a non-profit organisation that provides health, education and other essential services to thousands of women and children living in poverty in Nepal and Uganda. Since inception, Adara Advisors has donated 100 per cent of its profits – AU$8.3 million to fund this work. Audette grew up in New Zealand and is now based in Australia. She is a former lawyer and banker who at the age of 30 became the managing director of the Bermuda Commercial Bank; in the mid-90s she also spent two years as Chairman of the Bermuda Stock Exchange. In 2013, Audette was awarded an honorary Order of Australia for her work in Nepal and Uganda, and last year she was recognised by Forbes as a "Hero of Philanthropy". She has recently been inducted into the Australian Businesswomen’s Hall of Fame. | |
| Guy Fisher Guy Fisher is an investment consultant at Aon Hewitt. Aon Hewitt’s investment consulting services cover advice on investment policy, strategic asset allocation, financial risk management, mandate design, investment manager research and performance monitoring. Guy has more than 20 years’ experience in providing investment advice to both retail and institutional clients. After graduating from Edinburgh University in 1988, he worked for investment banks in Edinburgh and London before moving to New Zealand in 2002. Prior to joining Aon Hewitt, he spent seven years with ANZ National Private Bank. For the last five years he was Head of Investments with responsibility for all aspects of their investment business. | |
| Anthony Ford Anthony Ford is General Manager of First Foundation, a charitable trust set up to assist academically talented and financially disadvantaged New Zealand students achieve their potential through tertiary education and to prepare them to positively influence and benefit their communities. He is very active in philanthropy in his personal life, giving his time, money and expertise in a variety of ways – whether it be through the Not For Me Charitable Trust which he established in 2008, governance roles, youth mentoring, participating in various fundraising events or a variety of voluntary roles. Having taken some time out to complete a fulltime MBA at Trinity College Dublin, Anthony previously held senior management positions in companies across a diverse range of industries including Ticketek and Noel Leeming Group. | |
| Kate Frykberg Kate Frykberg is chair of Philanthropy New Zealand, chair of the Thinktank Charitable Trust and until recently was Executive Director of Todd Foundation. Kate, now an independent community and philanthropy consultant, is active both personally and professionally in philanthropy. Her background includes information technology and entrepreneurship, with Thinktank Charitable Trust established after the sale of the Internet development company she and her husband co-founded. Kate is a recipient of the NZ Order of Merit and is a former ASB Business Woman of the Year. | |
| Russell Garrett Russell Garrett is a Principal at Mercer Investments. He is responsible for managing client relationships as well as advising major institutional clients on delegated investment solutions, strategic asset allocation, portfolio construction, and manager selection. He leads Mercer’s Endowment & Foundations business in New Zealand and the Investments team in Wellington. Before joining Mercer in May 2008, Russell spent 17 years working in financial services, both in New Zealand and the United Kingdom. That included seven years with ASB Group Companies across their investment management, corporate superannuation, KiwiSaver and personal investment businesses. Before this Russell worked for Trustees Executors in both its custody and corporate trustee services divisions. | |
| Jennifer Gill Jennifer Gill is CEO of the ASB Community Trust. She has had a long career in philanthropy that began in 1985, when she was appointed executive officer of the Roy McKenzie Foundation. She then went on to become executive director of Fulbright NZ. She has also been involved with the JR McKenzie Trust and two family grantmaking trusts. She helped set up Philanthropy New Zealand in 1990, and was a PNZ board member for 20 of the next 23 years. Jenny has also been a member of the Asia Pacific Philanthropy Consortium and has participated in international meetings on current issues in philanthropy hosted by the Rockefeller and Volkswagen Foundations. Jenny has contributed to the growing literature on philanthropy in Australasia and is frequently asked to speak on philanthropy. | |
| Robert (Bob) Gill Bob Gill is executive director of BrandAdvantage, a specialist communications company that creates and manages brand connection for its clients and experiential relationships with their consumers. Bob has over 30 years experience in international advertising communications and sponsorship, and has pioneered the development of a unique set of sponsorship evaluation and measurement tools. He is a serial business creator, whose previous companies include Carat New Zealand, a media and sponsor services and Strategic Media, an integrated communications company providing strategic advice, planning, media buying and marketing services (including sports marketing, sponsorship and ospitality services). He has worked on a wide range of major events including rugby world cups, several commonwealth games, and the 2000 Americas Cup. | |
| Jody Hamilton Jody Hamilton is Project Manager for the Sustainable Business Council’s Social Impact work stream and Project Lead for CareED4. She has had a varied and dynamic career, with over 17 year’s community, government and private sector experience, including 10 years at the senior executive and senior manager level. Jody has held leadership roles in a range of strategy, policy and operational teams in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, primarily in the areas of economic and social development. | |
| Alex Hannant Alex Hannant is chief executive of the Ākina Foundation where he aims to accelerate transition to a sustainable, prosperous, and inclusive New Zealand through the development of talent, partnerships, and social enterprise. Alex was previously based in the UK where he was Director of Programmes at LEAD, a global network focused on leadership and sustainable development. He also worked for the Climate and Development Knowledge Network, a global initiative providing technical advice and services on climate change and development to decision makers in developing countries. Alex’s work has evolved to focus on the design and delivery of strategies and initiatives that facilitate cross-sector engagement, enterprise, and social innovation. Ultimately, he’s driven by doing things better and fairer. | |
| Chloe Harwood Chloe Harwood is the Strategy, Planning and Evaluation Manager with ASB Community Trust. Chloe is particularly interested in new models of grantmaking and looking at ways that funders can add value to their funding programmes. The Trust has been working hard to develop and implement an Evaluation and Monitoring Framework to help the Trust to understand and demonstrate success, as well as learn through its grantmaking. Chloe was born in England and grew up in Christchurch before returning to England where she worked for the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA), where she awarded funding to innovative and pioneering learning projects. | |
| Christian Hawkesby Christian Hawkesby is director, head of fixed income, at Harbour Asset Management. Prior to joining Harbour, Christian spent 9 years at the Bank of England, where he held a number of senior positions, including Head of Market Intelligence, Chief Manager of the Sterling Markets Division, and Private Secretary to the Deputy Governor. While in the Bank of England's dealing room, Christian was responsible for analysis and research, relationships with London and Edinburgh asset managers, designing and launching the special Sterling Corporate Bond Scheme, and advising on the Bank's purchase of £200bn UK government bonds for quantitative easing. Christian began his career at the RBNZ in 1998, where he spent time as both an analyst in the NZ cash, fixed income and FX markets, and as an economist running the RBNZ macroeconomic model. | |
| Mānuka Henare (University of Auckland) Mānuka Henare is Associate Professor in Māori Business Development at the University of Auckland. He is also the foundation Director of the Mira Szászy Research Centre for Māori and Pacific Economic Development and leads a number of multidisciplinary research project teams. Mānuka has advised government departments, local authorities and other institutions on bicultural or ambicultural management policies and has also served on government advisory committees on development assistance, peace and disarmament, archives, history, social policy, environmental risk management and number of other ministerial appointments. Before he embarked on his academic career he was CEO of two national NGOs in international development, justice and peace. Mānuka is also a recent addition to the Board of the Vodafone Foundation. | |
| Simon Herd Simon Herd is the Director of Innovation and Grantmaking Reform at the Australian Institute of Grants Management. In this role he has driven the design and development of SmartyGrants from its beginning in 2009 to being the largest grants-management system in Australia and New Zealand, handling more than 3,500 grant programs across 280 grantmaking organisations. Simon has a long-standing interest in philanthropy and the not-for-profit sector, having been involved with a number of philanthropic foundations and community organisations including the Myer Foundation, where he was vice president, and the Australian Environmental Grantmakers Network. He also worked as a lawyer for several year | |
| Peter Hero (Hero Group, US) Peter Hero is the founder of the US-based Hero Group, a global consulting firm which works to build greater philanthropic assets for maximum social impact. He was previously the CEO of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. During his 17 years with the Foundation he built it from a small organisation with total assets of just $8M to one with $1.3B in assets that awarded more than $3M in grants every week, and worked with 400 families and 25 major technology firms. According to an article in Fortune Magazine, Peter showed Silicon Valley how to give by “channeling the area's distinctive culture into an unusual brand of charity: demanding, ambitious, self-conscious, creative, even risky--everything you would expect from Silicon Valley.” | |
| Tony Hildyard Tony Hildyard is a PIMCO consultant responsible for developing new business opportunities and servicing existing clients in New Zealand. He is based in Wellington. Prior to joining PIMCO as a consultant in 2008, Tony spent 20 years with TOWER Asset Management, where his positions included portfolio manager, CIO and head of fixed interest, and CEO of investment businesses encompassing wholesale asset management, managed funds, superannuation and platforms. Prior to joining TOWER, Tony worked in commercial banking, investment banking and brokering. He has also served on the board of the Investment Savings and Insurance Association of New Zealand and as chairman of their Superannuation Committee. | |
| Leora Hirsh Leora Hirsh is the acting manager of the Auckland Council Community Development and Safety Unit. As part of her role with Auckland Council she holds responsibility for the Youth Connections programme – a partnership with the Tindall Foundation focussed on improving employment pathways for young people and encouraging employers to employ more young people. Before joining Auckland Council, Leora managed the Papakura District Council Community Development team. As well as a strong background in community development practise, Leora also has expertise in youth development, mental health promotion, not-for-profit management and community consultation. She has worked on both sides of the Tasman, including working with Aboriginal and culturally diverse communities. Leora has a passion for strengths-based community development practice, and a strong commitment to positive outcomes for young people. | |
| Cyril Howard Cyril Howard (Ngā Puhi) is Māori Strategy Manager at ASB Community Trust. He previously worked as a grants advisor with the Local Government and Community Branch of the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA). During his time at DIA he undertook a three-year secondment as a Gaming and Censorship Compliance officer, auditing gaming machine trusts. Cyril began his career as a community worker in Mt Roskill and during that time he was elected onto the Auckland COGS Local Distribution Committee. Sport is a passion for Cyril. He has been a NZ Touch representative, an Auckland and North Harbour Māori Rugby representative and a NZ Māori Rugby League representative. Although he has lived in Auckland most of his life, Cyril calls the Hokianga home. | |
| Brad Jackson Brad Jackson is Professor of Public and Community Leadership and the incoming Head of the School of Government at Victoria University of Wellington. Prior to this he was Fletcher Building Education Trust Chair in Leadership and the co-director of the New Zealand Leadership Institute at The University of Auckland Business School. Brad has published seven books — most recently the second edition of A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Studying Leadership, the Sage Handbook of Leadership and the Sage Major Works in Leadership. He is the Vice-Chair of the International Leadership Association and the co-editor of Leadership. Brad is also a Trustee of Akina. | |
| Murray Jones Murray Jones is the Managing Director of Dove Electronics Ltd and the Chair of Dove Charitable Trust, based in Christchurch. Murray started the Trust about 25 years ago. It primarily funds local charities but also supports some international projects. Murray plays a hands-on role in all parts of the application process – the Trust has no staff – including the assessment process. This has given him a good overview of what can really make a difference and he believes that personal relationships and good communication are more important than “figures and pieces of paper”. Murray is committed to integrating philanthropy with business practice, particularly by promoting a culture of generosity, such as including staff in funding decisions and encouraging staff giving. Murray is also newly elected to the Board of Philanthropy New Zealand. | |
| Manaia King Manaia King (Tainui, Ngāti Haua and Ngāti Koroki Kahu Kura) is deputy chairman of the JR Mckenzie Trust Board, and chairman of Te Kawai Toro the Trust’s Maori Development Committee, Te Kawai Toro. He was appointed to the board in November 2012 as the NZ Law Society representative and was made deputy chairman of the board in November 2013. Manaia is a lawyer who specialises in public health. He is employed by the New Zealand Ministry of Health as the Manager of the Chronic Diseases Team. It is responsible and accountable for an annual budget of approximately $120m which is used to commission prevention and health promotion programmes in the areas of tobacco, nutrition and physical activity, alcohol and drugs, and sexual health. | |
| Rongo Kirkwood Rongo Kirkwood (Waikato, Maniapoto) is Pouhere Pūtea (Donation Advisor) with Trust Waikato. She has worked extensively in the community, in particular in the marae, health, education, and community development sectors. In her current role she focuses on advancing the holistic well-being of all whānau, hapū and iwi. Rongo provides a range of services including specialist funding advice, and is a trained sustainable funding facilitator. Being well-connected in the community enables Rongo to broker effective relationships and support iwi with their aspirations. Rongo recently completed a Bachelor of Applied Social Science of Te Reo and Māori Development. She says that people are her passion. This is reflected not only in her work, but also in her community service and at home on the marae. | |
| Lynne Le Gros Lynne Le Gros is the General Manager of the Spark Foundation (previously the Telecom Foundation), a corporate foundation that owns and runs the crowdfunding platform Givealittle. The Foundation also partners with the Manaiakalani Education Trust, supporting its digital teaching and learning programme to improve learning outcomes within low-decile schools. Lynne is a very experienced marketer and a long time Spark employee and a firm believer in contributing to the community in which she lives. She is a regular volunteer at the Auckland City Mission Drop-in Centre and in doing so has built a hands-on appreciation of the charitable sector. | |
| Louise Marra Louise Marra is Leadership Advisor with the ASB Community Trust’s Centre for Social Impact. She has many years experience of working both in leadership and on leadership in all three sectors – not-for-profit, government and the private sector. Louise has capabilities in strategy development, social innovation and innovative thinking, general leadership development, executive coaching and mentoring, and creating coaching cultures. | |
| John McCarthy John McCarthy has been general manager of The Tindall Foundation since March 2014. He was previously the general manager of Lifewise, an Auckland-based organisation that provides life-changing services to families in need, the homeless, and older and disabled people. He has a long history of working with community organisations. He was regional manager of Richmond NZ, and he spent six years as Director of the SAFE Programme, an organisation that provides treatment to sexual abusers of children, which he also helped set up. He has served on many NGO boards, including the Auckland Night Shelter Trust, the James Liston Hostel Trust, the Friendship House Foundation and Fair Food. John was also formerly chair of Community Waitakere. | |
| Kate McKegg Kate McKegg is one of four evaluation consultants who work for the Kinnect Group in Auckland. She has specialist skills in policy and programme evaluation, evaluation capacity building, research, teaching, training and facilitation. Over the last 15 years Kate has applied these skills in many sectors, including education, health, social development, Māori development, sport, broadcasting, employment and housing. Her work spans a wide range of roles: mentoring and training staff to conduct research and evaluation; delivering evaluation training and workshops to policy and community organisations; developing evaluative systems and frameworks. She is also highly skilled at facilitating strategic capacity building to monitor and evaluate organisational performance and outcomes. | |
| Peter Miskimmin Peter Miskimmin has been Chief Executive of Sport New Zealand since 2008. He previously spent 17 years at NZ Post as Head of Corporate Sales as well as in a number of roles in Marketing and Commercial. Peter has been a member of several boards, including the New Zealand Olympic Committee (1993 to 2000), the New Zealand Sports Foundation (1995 to 1999), and NZOC’s Athlete’s Commission (1993 to 2000). He is also a past President of the Olympian Club of New Zealand. Peter is a two-time Olympian (LA, 1984 and Barcelona, 1992) and former captain of the New Zealand hockey team having played 150 tests for New Zealand. He is an experienced hockey coach at club, regional and national level, and is currently a selector for the men’s Black Sticks team. In 2006 he won the Sport Wellington Coach of the Year. | |
| Hana O'Regan Hana O’Regan is the Kaiārahi – Director Māori & Pasifika and Director Student Services at the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology, CPIT. Hana’s career has been largely focused on the areas of Māori language revitalisation and Māori educational achievement while also being an active advocate and driver for her own tribal language revitalisation strategy within Kāi Tahu. Hana has held positions as the Manager of the Māori Language Unit of the Ngāi Tahu tribal organisation, lecturer at the University of Otago, Lecturer, Head of School and and Faculty Dean at CPIT. She has also held a number of memberships on national and local boards, advisory groups and review panels including the Māori Language Commission and Te Paepae Motuhake, and ENZ (Endometriosis New Zealand). Hana is also currently a New Zealand Fellow on the International Centre for Language Revitalisation. | |
| Greg Peacock Greg Peacock is the Chief Investment Officer at NZAM, an independent global investment management company focused on alternative assets. Prior to working at NZAM, Greg spent a number of years with Clime Asset Management Ltd, the investment arm of New Zealand’s Spencer family. In his 16 years as Investment Manager at Clime, Greg worked with global alternative investment managers in an approach similar to that of NZAM’s. Greg has a Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical and Process) with First Class Honours from the University of Canterbury. | |
| Donna Provoost Donna Provoost is the Advocacy manager with the Office of the Children’s Commissioner. She is an economist with over fifteen years of experience as a researcher, policy analyst and manager. She and her small team advise on a range of issues to improve child wellbeing, including leading strategic work on child poverty. Donna works closely with stakeholders including government, NGOs, academics and businesses. | |
| Michael Quinn Patton Michael Quinn Patton is an independent organisational development and evaluation consultant based in Minneapolis. He is former President of the American Evaluation Association and a recipient of both the Alva and Gunnar Myrdal Award from the Evaluation Research Society for "outstanding contributions to evaluation use and practice". He also facilitates the Philanthropic Evaluation Roundtable in the USA. In 2006 Michael co-authored Getting to Maybe: How the World is Changed, which draws on complexity theory and systems thinking. That book led to the publication of Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity to Enhance Innovation and Use, in 2012. | |
| Maria Ramsay Maria Ramsay is the Chief Executive of the TSB Community Trust based in New Plymouth, Taranaki, and has been with the Trust for eight years. During this time, Maria has seen the Trust develop in size and in how it operates. A recent strong focus of the Trust has been on working collaboratively with the community and building the capacity of community organisations through training and more complex grant making. Maria’s background is in the healthcare sector where she held various clinical and managerial roles in both the public and private healthcare sectors. In 2002 she left the healthcare sector to take up a Local Authority role. Maria’s time in the healthcare sector and local government required her to interact with and apply to a variety of funding agencies giving her an understanding of the needs of those on both sides of the funding fence. | |
| Abbie Reynolds Abbie Reynolds is Vodafone’s head of Sustainability & Foundation. She arrived at this career having first spent time as a lawyer and then working in telecommunications regulation here and overseas. She has held corporate responsibility and sustainability roles at Telecom, Auckland Council and now Vodafone. Abbie is passionate about helping business think about how to do the right thing and use it to deliver value. | |
| David Richards David Richards is Projects and Strategy Manager at The Tindall Foundation. He is responsible for developing the Foundation’s strategies and managing a number of its key initiatives, including the capacity-building scheme, support for the recovery process in Christchurch, and Youth Connections Across Auckland. He also manages the day-to-day processing of applications. David arrived in New Zealand from Britain in 2002. His background includes developing community partnership initiatives to address a range of poverty-related issues in the city of Bristol. He also served on the board of a number of not-for-profit organisations and chaired the local community association in a multi-ethnic, multi-faith, inner-city neighbourhood. | |
| Dame Anne Salmond (University of Auckland) Dame Anne Salmond is a distinguished academic and historian with deep links to the Maori world and a passion for protecting and conserving the New Zealand environment. Dame Anne has been the recipient of numerous literary awards, scholarships and academic prizes. In 1995 she was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire for services to New Zealand history, in 2004 she received a Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement for non-fiction, and in 2013 she was named New Zealander of the Year. She is also project sponsor for Te Awaroa, a project that aims to restore waterways across New Zealand, and chairperson of the Longbush Ecological Trust, which is dedicated to restoring a 120 hectare ecosanctuary in Gisborne. | |
| Fiona Stokes Fiona Stokes is a Senior Economist at BERL, an independent economic research company based in Wellington. Her work is broad ranging, but her current areas of research involve working with Māori entities, iwi, and hapu on projects related to economic development and strategic planning. Te Kāwai Toro, the Māori Development sub-committee of the Board of the J R McKenzie Trust has commissioned BERL to identify philanthropic funding to Māori. BERL has previously completed research that estimated total philanthropic funding in New Zealand, broken down by sources of funds and activities funded. In general, the new study uses the same approach but has supplemented the data through online surveys and interviews. Fiona will be talking about the findings from the study, including a discussion on the method and data limitations, and next steps for consideration from the point of view of the philanthropic sector. | |
| Marama Takao Marama Takao (Ngāti Rārua, Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Ngāti Tama, Ngāi Tahu, Ngāi Tūhoe and Scottish) is the Māori Development Advisor/Kaitohutohu for the J R McKenzie Trust. The Trust has two key priority areas for funding: disadvantaged children and their families, and Māori development. Before joining the Trust Marama spent 27 years working in the areas of community development and funding, first with Community Volunteers Inc then with the Community Development Unit at the Department of Internal Affairs. | |
| Alison Taylor Dr Alison Tayor is head of the ASB Community Trust’s Centre for Social Impact. She was appointed to head the Centre after joining the Trust to lead the development of its high- engagement funding programmes and capacity-support programme. The Centre was founded to support innovative responses to complex social issues and to work collaboratively with community organisations to support the design and development of effective social change programmes. Alison is also a Trustee of the Vodafone New Zealand Foundation and has held a number of senior public health and social sector leadership roles in the UK and New Zealand. | |
| Dave Turner Dave Turner is an Australian-based independent consultant with 30 years’ experience in youth employment and careers education. In 2001, Dave developed the Four Pillars of Career and Transition Support concept for the British Government’s Connexions Program. This has provided a backdrop for his work in both Britain and Australia since then. More recently Dave helped develop and introduce the UK Work Inspiration initiative in Australia. The initiative is a work exposure project that has been led and resourced by employers (alone, or in a cluster) in order to re-imagine work experience in Years 9 and 10. At the heart of Dave’s work lies a commitment to the importance of employer-education collaboration, and a belief in the vital role that young people can play through peer support in meeting the challenges facing teenagers. | |
| 0 | Lisa Watkins Lisa Watkins is of General Manager Early Childhood Services with Barnardos New Zealand, where is responsible for home-based and centre-based ECE services from Whangarei to Invercargill. She has worked in the ECE sector since 2008 and joined Barnardos in 2011. Lisa has a Master of Applied Finance from Victoria University of Wellington and worked within the financial services sector for 20 years in a number of senior roles in New Zealand and Australia, including ANZ Banking Group, Southern Cross Healthcare, National Australia Bank and Tower Trust. |
| Paul White Paul ‘Chalky’ White is head of the BNZ Markets Income and Investment Solutions team, which works closely with large deposit clients across the bank. He joined BNZ on the Markets graduate programme in 1996 after studying finance and law at Waikato University. Since then he has had a variety of roles including Corporate FX sales, Options trading, Structured Currency Options and Commodities sales. He also spent six years working for NAB in Melbourne. | |
| Marcus Akuhata-Brown Marcus Akuhata-Brown (Ngāi Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāi Tahu) grew up on the East Coast of the North Island. He trained as a teacher and has led a number of innovative alternative education programmes addressing the needs of youth at risk and young offenders. He is a gifted facilitator and communicator and has represented New Zealand internationally in a variety of roles including as a member of the Commonwealth Youth Caucus. In 2000 he founded Tukaha Global Consultancy and he currently divides his time between speaking and consultancy work, land development in Te Araroa and personal studies through Te Wananga o Raukawa. | |
| Andrew Bascand Andrew Bascand is portfolio manager and managing director at Harbour Asset Management. He leads the investment team responsible for the Harbour Australasian Equity Fund. Andrew works closely with Harbour’s research analysts to review existing Fund holdings and to generate new ideas for the Fund. Prior to joining Harbour Asset Management, Andrew spent 10 years with Alliance Bernstein (NZ) as Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager responsible for portfolio construction of all Australasian mandates. In that role Andrew and his team were consistently recognised by the industry for excellence in funds management. Andrew has more than 25 years’ investment management experience in roles with the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Bank of England, AMP and Merrill Lynch Global Asset Management (UK), where he managed global equity accounts for pension funds in Japan, Sweden, Spain, Chile, England, the US, Germany and South Africa. Andrew is an AFA. | |
| Precious Clark Precious Clark (Ngāti Whatua, Tainui) has a legal background and is passionate about Maori development. She is a director on Ngāti Whatua Orakei Whai Rawa Ltd, the investment arm of Ngāti Whatua Orakei, a trustee of the ASB Community Trust, a director on the Centre for Social Impact, a board member of the Independent Māori Statutory Board and the Auckland Museum Taumata-a-Iwi, a member of the Institute of Directors, an executive member of Advancement of Māori Opportunities, and a member of the National Māori Lawyers Association. Precious is also an experienced performer who performed the karanga at the opening ceremony of the Rugby World Cup 2011. Her most challenging and rewarding role, however, is as a mother to her daughter Taiaaria. | |
| Justine Cornwall Dr Justine Cornwall is the Deputy Children’s Commissioner. She has extensive leadership, public policy, and research and evaluation experience across the government sector. She has worked extensively with NGOs to address family violence and victims’ rights issues, and has a wealth of experience related to children, young people and families. | |
| Annette Culpan Annette Culpan is manager of the Vodafone New Zealand Foundation. She is also a Philanthropy New Zealand board member, a volunteer counsellor and a refugee advocate. Her background is in commercial, corporate and philanthropy. In 2002 she was one of the inaugural Vodafone Foundation World of Difference recipients. She spent the year managing a health trust in Indonesia that worked with bomb victims and ran mobile clinics. More recently she visited India to look at social enterprise models and she is developing a paper exploring the untapped potential of social enterprise in New Zealand. Annette is passionate about insights-led and evidence-based practice. | |
| Allan English Allan English is a Brisbane-based entrepreneur who founded ASX-listed Company Silver Chef in 1986. In 2010 Allan stepped down as CEO of Silver Chef to set up the English Family Foundation. Allan is an engaging and inspiring speaker who has set himself some “big hairy audacious goals” – including funding 1 million people out of poverty in India by 2020. He admits that the space he works in is not particularly sexy: “I tend to go for the tougher issues in our community, those which sometimes get ignored or put into the too hard basket.” Allan was named the 2014 Australian Philanthropy Leader of the Year. He also serves on a number of not for profit boards. | |
| Lani Evans Lani Evans is chief executive of Thankyou Payroll, a social business that provides free payroll intermediary services to businesses and charities all over New Zealand and donates 25 cents per person, per pay to community organisations. Lani is also a trustee for the Malcam Charitable Trust and co-chair of the West Harbour Beautification Trust. She has a background in documentary making, and a long history of working in the not-for-profit sector in both New Zealand and Australia. She is also an adventurer whose achievements include walking the length of the South Island – over 21 mountain passes – in 84 days, and kayaking to, and climbing, four remote sea pillars on the Tasmanian coast in one day. Lani has recently become a member of the Board of Philanthropy New Zealand. | |
| Audette Exel Audette Exel is co-founder of the Adara Group (formerly the ISIS Group) which is made up of two parts – Adara Advisors and Adara Development. Adara Advisors is a corporate finance and private placement business set up for the sole purpose of funding Adara Development, a non-profit organisation that provides health, education and other essential services to thousands of women and children living in poverty in Nepal and Uganda. Since inception, Adara Advisors has donated 100 per cent of its profits – AU$8.3 million to fund this work. Audette grew up in New Zealand and is now based in Australia. She is a former lawyer and banker who at the age of 30 became the managing director of the Bermuda Commercial Bank; in the mid-90s she also spent two years as Chairman of the Bermuda Stock Exchange. In 2013, Audette was awarded an honorary Order of Australia for her work in Nepal and Uganda, and last year she was recognised by Forbes as a "Hero of Philanthropy". She has recently been inducted into the Australian Businesswomen’s Hall of Fame. | |
| Guy Fisher Guy Fisher is an investment consultant at Aon Hewitt. Aon Hewitt’s investment consulting services cover advice on investment policy, strategic asset allocation, financial risk management, mandate design, investment manager research and performance monitoring. Guy has more than 20 years’ experience in providing investment advice to both retail and institutional clients. After graduating from Edinburgh University in 1988, he worked for investment banks in Edinburgh and London before moving to New Zealand in 2002. Prior to joining Aon Hewitt, he spent seven years with ANZ National Private Bank. For the last five years he was Head of Investments with responsibility for all aspects of their investment business. | |
| Anthony Ford Anthony Ford is General Manager of First Foundation, a charitable trust set up to assist academically talented and financially disadvantaged New Zealand students achieve their potential through tertiary education and to prepare them to positively influence and benefit their communities. He is very active in philanthropy in his personal life, giving his time, money and expertise in a variety of ways – whether it be through the Not For Me Charitable Trust which he established in 2008, governance roles, youth mentoring, participating in various fundraising events or a variety of voluntary roles. Having taken some time out to complete a fulltime MBA at Trinity College Dublin, Anthony previously held senior management positions in companies across a diverse range of industries including Ticketek and Noel Leeming Group. | |
| Kate Frykberg Kate Frykberg is chair of Philanthropy New Zealand, chair of the Thinktank Charitable Trust and until recently was Executive Director of Todd Foundation. Kate, now an independent community and philanthropy consultant, is active both personally and professionally in philanthropy. Her background includes information technology and entrepreneurship, with Thinktank Charitable Trust established after the sale of the Internet development company she and her husband co-founded. Kate is a recipient of the NZ Order of Merit and is a former ASB Business Woman of the Year. | |
| Russell Garrett Russell Garrett is a Principal at Mercer Investments. He is responsible for managing client relationships as well as advising major institutional clients on delegated investment solutions, strategic asset allocation, portfolio construction, and manager selection. He leads Mercer’s Endowment & Foundations business in New Zealand and the Investments team in Wellington. Before joining Mercer in May 2008, Russell spent 17 years working in financial services, both in New Zealand and the United Kingdom. That included seven years with ASB Group Companies across their investment management, corporate superannuation, KiwiSaver and personal investment businesses. Before this Russell worked for Trustees Executors in both its custody and corporate trustee services divisions. | |
| Jennifer Gill Jennifer Gill is CEO of the ASB Community Trust. She has had a long career in philanthropy that began in 1985, when she was appointed executive officer of the Roy McKenzie Foundation. She then went on to become executive director of Fulbright NZ. She has also been involved with the JR McKenzie Trust and two family grantmaking trusts. She helped set up Philanthropy New Zealand in 1990, and was a PNZ board member for 20 of the next 23 years. Jenny has also been a member of the Asia Pacific Philanthropy Consortium and has participated in international meetings on current issues in philanthropy hosted by the Rockefeller and Volkswagen Foundations. Jenny has contributed to the growing literature on philanthropy in Australasia and is frequently asked to speak on philanthropy. | |
| Robert (Bob) Gill Bob Gill is executive director of BrandAdvantage, a specialist communications company that creates and manages brand connection for its clients and experiential relationships with their consumers. Bob has over 30 years experience in international advertising communications and sponsorship, and has pioneered the development of a unique set of sponsorship evaluation and measurement tools. He is a serial business creator, whose previous companies include Carat New Zealand, a media and sponsor services and Strategic Media, an integrated communications company providing strategic advice, planning, media buying and marketing services (including sports marketing, sponsorship and ospitality services). He has worked on a wide range of major events including rugby world cups, several commonwealth games, and the 2000 Americas Cup. | |
| Jody Hamilton Jody Hamilton is Project Manager for the Sustainable Business Council’s Social Impact work stream and Project Lead for CareED4. She has had a varied and dynamic career, with over 17 year’s community, government and private sector experience, including 10 years at the senior executive and senior manager level. Jody has held leadership roles in a range of strategy, policy and operational teams in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, primarily in the areas of economic and social development. | |
| Alex Hannant Alex Hannant is chief executive of the Ākina Foundation where he aims to accelerate transition to a sustainable, prosperous, and inclusive New Zealand through the development of talent, partnerships, and social enterprise. Alex was previously based in the UK where he was Director of Programmes at LEAD, a global network focused on leadership and sustainable development. He also worked for the Climate and Development Knowledge Network, a global initiative providing technical advice and services on climate change and development to decision makers in developing countries. Alex’s work has evolved to focus on the design and delivery of strategies and initiatives that facilitate cross-sector engagement, enterprise, and social innovation. Ultimately, he’s driven by doing things better and fairer. | |
| Chloe Harwood Chloe Harwood is the Strategy, Planning and Evaluation Manager with ASB Community Trust. Chloe is particularly interested in new models of grantmaking and looking at ways that funders can add value to their funding programmes. The Trust has been working hard to develop and implement an Evaluation and Monitoring Framework to help the Trust to understand and demonstrate success, as well as learn through its grantmaking. Chloe was born in England and grew up in Christchurch before returning to England where she worked for the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA), where she awarded funding to innovative and pioneering learning projects. | |
| Christian Hawkesby Christian Hawkesby is director, head of fixed income, at Harbour Asset Management. Prior to joining Harbour, Christian spent 9 years at the Bank of England, where he held a number of senior positions, including Head of Market Intelligence, Chief Manager of the Sterling Markets Division, and Private Secretary to the Deputy Governor. While in the Bank of England's dealing room, Christian was responsible for analysis and research, relationships with London and Edinburgh asset managers, designing and launching the special Sterling Corporate Bond Scheme, and advising on the Bank's purchase of £200bn UK government bonds for quantitative easing. Christian began his career at the RBNZ in 1998, where he spent time as both an analyst in the NZ cash, fixed income and FX markets, and as an economist running the RBNZ macroeconomic model. | |
| Mānuka Henare (University of Auckland) Mānuka Henare is Associate Professor in Māori Business Development at the University of Auckland. He is also the foundation Director of the Mira Szászy Research Centre for Māori and Pacific Economic Development and leads a number of multidisciplinary research project teams. Mānuka has advised government departments, local authorities and other institutions on bicultural or ambicultural management policies and has also served on government advisory committees on development assistance, peace and disarmament, archives, history, social policy, environmental risk management and number of other ministerial appointments. Before he embarked on his academic career he was CEO of two national NGOs in international development, justice and peace. Mānuka is also a recent addition to the Board of the Vodafone Foundation. | |
| Simon Herd Simon Herd is the Director of Innovation and Grantmaking Reform at the Australian Institute of Grants Management. In this role he has driven the design and development of SmartyGrants from its beginning in 2009 to being the largest grants-management system in Australia and New Zealand, handling more than 3,500 grant programs across 280 grantmaking organisations. Simon has a long-standing interest in philanthropy and the not-for-profit sector, having been involved with a number of philanthropic foundations and community organisations including the Myer Foundation, where he was vice president, and the Australian Environmental Grantmakers Network. He also worked as a lawyer for several year | |
| Peter Hero (Hero Group, US) Peter Hero is the founder of the US-based Hero Group, a global consulting firm which works to build greater philanthropic assets for maximum social impact. He was previously the CEO of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. During his 17 years with the Foundation he built it from a small organisation with total assets of just $8M to one with $1.3B in assets that awarded more than $3M in grants every week, and worked with 400 families and 25 major technology firms. According to an article in Fortune Magazine, Peter showed Silicon Valley how to give by “channeling the area's distinctive culture into an unusual brand of charity: demanding, ambitious, self-conscious, creative, even risky--everything you would expect from Silicon Valley.” | |
| Tony Hildyard Tony Hildyard is a PIMCO consultant responsible for developing new business opportunities and servicing existing clients in New Zealand. He is based in Wellington. Prior to joining PIMCO as a consultant in 2008, Tony spent 20 years with TOWER Asset Management, where his positions included portfolio manager, CIO and head of fixed interest, and CEO of investment businesses encompassing wholesale asset management, managed funds, superannuation and platforms. Prior to joining TOWER, Tony worked in commercial banking, investment banking and brokering. He has also served on the board of the Investment Savings and Insurance Association of New Zealand and as chairman of their Superannuation Committee. | |
| Leora Hirsh Leora Hirsh is the acting manager of the Auckland Council Community Development and Safety Unit. As part of her role with Auckland Council she holds responsibility for the Youth Connections programme – a partnership with the Tindall Foundation focussed on improving employment pathways for young people and encouraging employers to employ more young people. Before joining Auckland Council, Leora managed the Papakura District Council Community Development team. As well as a strong background in community development practise, Leora also has expertise in youth development, mental health promotion, not-for-profit management and community consultation. She has worked on both sides of the Tasman, including working with Aboriginal and culturally diverse communities. Leora has a passion for strengths-based community development practice, and a strong commitment to positive outcomes for young people. | |
| Cyril Howard Cyril Howard (Ngā Puhi) is Māori Strategy Manager at ASB Community Trust. He previously worked as a grants advisor with the Local Government and Community Branch of the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA). During his time at DIA he undertook a three-year secondment as a Gaming and Censorship Compliance officer, auditing gaming machine trusts. Cyril began his career as a community worker in Mt Roskill and during that time he was elected onto the Auckland COGS Local Distribution Committee. Sport is a passion for Cyril. He has been a NZ Touch representative, an Auckland and North Harbour Māori Rugby representative and a NZ Māori Rugby League representative. Although he has lived in Auckland most of his life, Cyril calls the Hokianga home. | |
| Brad Jackson Brad Jackson is Professor of Public and Community Leadership and the incoming Head of the School of Government at Victoria University of Wellington. Prior to this he was Fletcher Building Education Trust Chair in Leadership and the co-director of the New Zealand Leadership Institute at The University of Auckland Business School. Brad has published seven books — most recently the second edition of A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Studying Leadership, the Sage Handbook of Leadership and the Sage Major Works in Leadership. He is the Vice-Chair of the International Leadership Association and the co-editor of Leadership. Brad is also a Trustee of Akina. | |
| Murray Jones Murray Jones is the Managing Director of Dove Electronics Ltd and the Chair of Dove Charitable Trust, based in Christchurch. Murray started the Trust about 25 years ago. It primarily funds local charities but also supports some international projects. Murray plays a hands-on role in all parts of the application process – the Trust has no staff – including the assessment process. This has given him a good overview of what can really make a difference and he believes that personal relationships and good communication are more important than “figures and pieces of paper”. Murray is committed to integrating philanthropy with business practice, particularly by promoting a culture of generosity, such as including staff in funding decisions and encouraging staff giving. Murray is also newly elected to the Board of Philanthropy New Zealand. | |
| Manaia King Manaia King (Tainui, Ngāti Haua and Ngāti Koroki Kahu Kura) is deputy chairman of the JR Mckenzie Trust Board, and chairman of Te Kawai Toro the Trust’s Maori Development Committee, Te Kawai Toro. He was appointed to the board in November 2012 as the NZ Law Society representative and was made deputy chairman of the board in November 2013. Manaia is a lawyer who specialises in public health. He is employed by the New Zealand Ministry of Health as the Manager of the Chronic Diseases Team. It is responsible and accountable for an annual budget of approximately $120m which is used to commission prevention and health promotion programmes in the areas of tobacco, nutrition and physical activity, alcohol and drugs, and sexual health. | |
| Rongo Kirkwood Rongo Kirkwood (Waikato, Maniapoto) is Pouhere Pūtea (Donation Advisor) with Trust Waikato. She has worked extensively in the community, in particular in the marae, health, education, and community development sectors. In her current role she focuses on advancing the holistic well-being of all whānau, hapū and iwi. Rongo provides a range of services including specialist funding advice, and is a trained sustainable funding facilitator. Being well-connected in the community enables Rongo to broker effective relationships and support iwi with their aspirations. Rongo recently completed a Bachelor of Applied Social Science of Te Reo and Māori Development. She says that people are her passion. This is reflected not only in her work, but also in her community service and at home on the marae. | |
| Lynne Le Gros Lynne Le Gros is the General Manager of the Spark Foundation (previously the Telecom Foundation), a corporate foundation that owns and runs the crowdfunding platform Givealittle. The Foundation also partners with the Manaiakalani Education Trust, supporting its digital teaching and learning programme to improve learning outcomes within low-decile schools. Lynne is a very experienced marketer and a long time Spark employee and a firm believer in contributing to the community in which she lives. She is a regular volunteer at the Auckland City Mission Drop-in Centre and in doing so has built a hands-on appreciation of the charitable sector. | |
| Louise Marra Louise Marra is Leadership Advisor with the ASB Community Trust’s Centre for Social Impact. She has many years experience of working both in leadership and on leadership in all three sectors – not-for-profit, government and the private sector. Louise has capabilities in strategy development, social innovation and innovative thinking, general leadership development, executive coaching and mentoring, and creating coaching cultures. | |
| John McCarthy John McCarthy has been general manager of The Tindall Foundation since March 2014. He was previously the general manager of Lifewise, an Auckland-based organisation that provides life-changing services to families in need, the homeless, and older and disabled people. He has a long history of working with community organisations. He was regional manager of Richmond NZ, and he spent six years as Director of the SAFE Programme, an organisation that provides treatment to sexual abusers of children, which he also helped set up. He has served on many NGO boards, including the Auckland Night Shelter Trust, the James Liston Hostel Trust, the Friendship House Foundation and Fair Food. John was also formerly chair of Community Waitakere. | |
| Kate McKegg Kate McKegg is one of four evaluation consultants who work for the Kinnect Group in Auckland. She has specialist skills in policy and programme evaluation, evaluation capacity building, research, teaching, training and facilitation. Over the last 15 years Kate has applied these skills in many sectors, including education, health, social development, Māori development, sport, broadcasting, employment and housing. Her work spans a wide range of roles: mentoring and training staff to conduct research and evaluation; delivering evaluation training and workshops to policy and community organisations; developing evaluative systems and frameworks. She is also highly skilled at facilitating strategic capacity building to monitor and evaluate organisational performance and outcomes. | |
| Peter Miskimmin Peter Miskimmin has been Chief Executive of Sport New Zealand since 2008. He previously spent 17 years at NZ Post as Head of Corporate Sales as well as in a number of roles in Marketing and Commercial. Peter has been a member of several boards, including the New Zealand Olympic Committee (1993 to 2000), the New Zealand Sports Foundation (1995 to 1999), and NZOC’s Athlete’s Commission (1993 to 2000). He is also a past President of the Olympian Club of New Zealand. Peter is a two-time Olympian (LA, 1984 and Barcelona, 1992) and former captain of the New Zealand hockey team having played 150 tests for New Zealand. He is an experienced hockey coach at club, regional and national level, and is currently a selector for the men’s Black Sticks team. In 2006 he won the Sport Wellington Coach of the Year. | |
| Hana O'Regan Hana O’Regan is the Kaiārahi – Director Māori & Pasifika and Director Student Services at the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology, CPIT. Hana’s career has been largely focused on the areas of Māori language revitalisation and Māori educational achievement while also being an active advocate and driver for her own tribal language revitalisation strategy within Kāi Tahu. Hana has held positions as the Manager of the Māori Language Unit of the Ngāi Tahu tribal organisation, lecturer at the University of Otago, Lecturer, Head of School and and Faculty Dean at CPIT. She has also held a number of memberships on national and local boards, advisory groups and review panels including the Māori Language Commission and Te Paepae Motuhake, and ENZ (Endometriosis New Zealand). Hana is also currently a New Zealand Fellow on the International Centre for Language Revitalisation. | |
| Greg Peacock Greg Peacock is the Chief Investment Officer at NZAM, an independent global investment management company focused on alternative assets. Prior to working at NZAM, Greg spent a number of years with Clime Asset Management Ltd, the investment arm of New Zealand’s Spencer family. In his 16 years as Investment Manager at Clime, Greg worked with global alternative investment managers in an approach similar to that of NZAM’s. Greg has a Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical and Process) with First Class Honours from the University of Canterbury. | |
| Donna Provoost Donna Provoost is the Advocacy manager with the Office of the Children’s Commissioner. She is an economist with over fifteen years of experience as a researcher, policy analyst and manager. She and her small team advise on a range of issues to improve child wellbeing, including leading strategic work on child poverty. Donna works closely with stakeholders including government, NGOs, academics and businesses. | |
| Michael Quinn Patton Michael Quinn Patton is an independent organisational development and evaluation consultant based in Minneapolis. He is former President of the American Evaluation Association and a recipient of both the Alva and Gunnar Myrdal Award from the Evaluation Research Society for "outstanding contributions to evaluation use and practice". He also facilitates the Philanthropic Evaluation Roundtable in the USA. In 2006 Michael co-authored Getting to Maybe: How the World is Changed, which draws on complexity theory and systems thinking. That book led to the publication of Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity to Enhance Innovation and Use, in 2012. | |
| Maria Ramsay Maria Ramsay is the Chief Executive of the TSB Community Trust based in New Plymouth, Taranaki, and has been with the Trust for eight years. During this time, Maria has seen the Trust develop in size and in how it operates. A recent strong focus of the Trust has been on working collaboratively with the community and building the capacity of community organisations through training and more complex grant making. Maria’s background is in the healthcare sector where she held various clinical and managerial roles in both the public and private healthcare sectors. In 2002 she left the healthcare sector to take up a Local Authority role. Maria’s time in the healthcare sector and local government required her to interact with and apply to a variety of funding agencies giving her an understanding of the needs of those on both sides of the funding fence. | |
| Abbie Reynolds Abbie Reynolds is Vodafone’s head of Sustainability & Foundation. She arrived at this career having first spent time as a lawyer and then working in telecommunications regulation here and overseas. She has held corporate responsibility and sustainability roles at Telecom, Auckland Council and now Vodafone. Abbie is passionate about helping business think about how to do the right thing and use it to deliver value. | |
| David Richards David Richards is Projects and Strategy Manager at The Tindall Foundation. He is responsible for developing the Foundation’s strategies and managing a number of its key initiatives, including the capacity-building scheme, support for the recovery process in Christchurch, and Youth Connections Across Auckland. He also manages the day-to-day processing of applications. David arrived in New Zealand from Britain in 2002. His background includes developing community partnership initiatives to address a range of poverty-related issues in the city of Bristol. He also served on the board of a number of not-for-profit organisations and chaired the local community association in a multi-ethnic, multi-faith, inner-city neighbourhood. | |
| Dame Anne Salmond (University of Auckland) Dame Anne Salmond is a distinguished academic and historian with deep links to the Maori world and a passion for protecting and conserving the New Zealand environment. Dame Anne has been the recipient of numerous literary awards, scholarships and academic prizes. In 1995 she was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire for services to New Zealand history, in 2004 she received a Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement for non-fiction, and in 2013 she was named New Zealander of the Year. She is also project sponsor for Te Awaroa, a project that aims to restore waterways across New Zealand, and chairperson of the Longbush Ecological Trust, which is dedicated to restoring a 120 hectare ecosanctuary in Gisborne. | |
| Fiona Stokes Fiona Stokes is a Senior Economist at BERL, an independent economic research company based in Wellington. Her work is broad ranging, but her current areas of research involve working with Māori entities, iwi, and hapu on projects related to economic development and strategic planning. Te Kāwai Toro, the Māori Development sub-committee of the Board of the J R McKenzie Trust has commissioned BERL to identify philanthropic funding to Māori. BERL has previously completed research that estimated total philanthropic funding in New Zealand, broken down by sources of funds and activities funded. In general, the new study uses the same approach but has supplemented the data through online surveys and interviews. Fiona will be talking about the findings from the study, including a discussion on the method and data limitations, and next steps for consideration from the point of view of the philanthropic sector. | |
| Marama Takao Marama Takao (Ngāti Rārua, Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Ngāti Tama, Ngāi Tahu, Ngāi Tūhoe and Scottish) is the Māori Development Advisor/Kaitohutohu for the J R McKenzie Trust. The Trust has two key priority areas for funding: disadvantaged children and their families, and Māori development. Before joining the Trust Marama spent 27 years working in the areas of community development and funding, first with Community Volunteers Inc then with the Community Development Unit at the Department of Internal Affairs. | |
| Alison Taylor Dr Alison Tayor is head of the ASB Community Trust’s Centre for Social Impact. She was appointed to head the Centre after joining the Trust to lead the development of its high- engagement funding programmes and capacity-support programme. The Centre was founded to support innovative responses to complex social issues and to work collaboratively with community organisations to support the design and development of effective social change programmes. Alison is also a Trustee of the Vodafone New Zealand Foundation and has held a number of senior public health and social sector leadership roles in the UK and New Zealand. | |
| Dave Turner Dave Turner is an Australian-based independent consultant with 30 years’ experience in youth employment and careers education. In 2001, Dave developed the Four Pillars of Career and Transition Support concept for the British Government’s Connexions Program. This has provided a backdrop for his work in both Britain and Australia since then. More recently Dave helped develop and introduce the UK Work Inspiration initiative in Australia. The initiative is a work exposure project that has been led and resourced by employers (alone, or in a cluster) in order to re-imagine work experience in Years 9 and 10. At the heart of Dave’s work lies a commitment to the importance of employer-education collaboration, and a belief in the vital role that young people can play through peer support in meeting the challenges facing teenagers. | |
| 0 | Lisa Watkins Lisa Watkins is of General Manager Early Childhood Services with Barnardos New Zealand, where is responsible for home-based and centre-based ECE services from Whangarei to Invercargill. She has worked in the ECE sector since 2008 and joined Barnardos in 2011. Lisa has a Master of Applied Finance from Victoria University of Wellington and worked within the financial services sector for 20 years in a number of senior roles in New Zealand and Australia, including ANZ Banking Group, Southern Cross Healthcare, National Australia Bank and Tower Trust. |
| Paul White Paul ‘Chalky’ White is head of the BNZ Markets Income and Investment Solutions team, which works closely with large deposit clients across the bank. He joined BNZ on the Markets graduate programme in 1996 after studying finance and law at Waikato University. Since then he has had a variety of roles including Corporate FX sales, Options trading, Structured Currency Options and Commodities sales. He also spent six years working for NAB in Melbourne. | |
