Joanna Allan

Joanna Allan is the GM Commercial – Optimisation, Trading and Sourcing at Fonterra. Before joining Fonterra, Joanna held a number of international roles in Paris, Singapore, New York and Sydney for the French company, Danone, in a similar financial planning and commercial support capacity. Joanna holds a Bachelor of Engineering Degree (Mechanical Engineering) at the University of Auckland. She is a passionate traveler and skier and is involved in mentoring and coaching at Fonterra... Read more...

Helen Amituana'i

Helen is a first generation New Zealand born Samoan. Unlike the rest of her family, who are mainly teachers, Helen started working for Telecom straight after leaving school. She found the corporate environment fascinating and very challenging and spent 11 years with Telecom before joining Mighty River Power... Read more...

Shelley Campbell

Shelley Campbell is currently the CEO of Sir Peter Blake Trust and is responsible for implementing its leadership development and environmental programmes throughout the country. She is a former Chief Executive of Waikato Primary Health that provided health services to 315,000 people across the central North Island.

Shelley is a member of Cancer Council NZ and Chaired the Minister’s National Bowel Cancer Screening Taskforce. She was a member of the New Zealand delegation to the World Health Assembly in 2008 and has examined health systems in Canada and the UK... Read more...

Joanne Finer

As General Manager Product Assurance for Fonterra, Jo leads the development and global implementation of Fonterra’s Global Quality Framework and provides a quality advisory role to Fonterra’s non-New Zealand manufacturing operations. This involves extensive international work across Fonterra’s own business units, joint venture partners and external dairy operations. Jo also leads Fonterra’s technical liaison with Latin America... Read more...

Megan Ferguson

Megan's current role includes participating as a member of the NZI Executive Team, preparing IAG for the possible establishment of a new business channel and business owner of a significant IT project that crosses all of the IAG brands.

Megan has a diverse background that includes working in a variety of public and private organisations and local government, in roles such as project management, quality improvement, and operational management... Read more...

Fiona Harnett

Fiona Harnett is the General Manager of Finance Operations at Vodafone. Fiona has 19 years experience as a professional accountant and is a member of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants. Her financial experience includes a number of senior finance roles in large New Zealand companies focusing on financial control and governance, process management and the management of large and complex transactional processing teams... Read more...

Tracey Hickman

Having completed a Masters Degree in Resource Management at Auckland University, Tracey has worked in various environmental advisory and environmental management positions within the electricity generation sector. Tracey has held the position of Renewable Energy Manager for Genesis Energy for the past six years, responsible for managing the company’s hydro and wind generation assets. Tracey is based at the southern end of Lake Taupo but travels extensively and routinely within New Zealand. Tracey was a Trustee on the Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuits Centre for 6 years up until 2011... Read more...

Vina Hira

Vina is a Tax partner at KPMG. She has over 14 years of tax experience advising on various consulting and compliance issues including cross border structuring and investment, repatriation of funds and exit strategies. Since transferring to Hamilton 4 years ago from Auckland, Vina's focus has been providing tax advice to mid market and agri business clients, specifically in relation to acquisitions, disposals and restructuring. Vina's experience therefore covers a broad range from large corporate entities to mid market... Read more...

Trish Keith

Trish's 20 year journey with Telecom has been in mainly in customer facing business units. Developing and leading the deployment of new service strategies that change the game for customer service into the future is my passion.

She has been very heavily involved in the Christchurch Recovery Programme for Telecom post the February 22nd Earthquakes, which has been a hugely challenging and humbling experience... Read more...

Leanne Love

Leanne is the Service Delivery Organisation Executive for IBM New Zealand, a technology company that provides services to many companies in New Zealand. Leanne works with her team to deliver stable, cost effective and innovative solutions to IBM’s Distributed Computing, Network, Service Centre, Voice and Server Management clients.

Raised in Wellington, New Zealand, Leanne has worked for IBM for the last 24 years and lives with her two children and partner in Lower Hutt... Read more...

Suzie Marsden

Suzie Marsden is Head of Brand and Community for Westpac, a role that encompasses, brand strategy, sponsorship, sustainability and community.

Suzie's marketing career spans both NZ and the UK in large and medium sized companies. She is also a Trustee of Auckland Communities Foundation and Chair of the Board of NZ Centre for Personal Financial Education. She has a Bachelor of Business Studies from Massey University... Read more...

Monica Mathis

Monica Mathis has 25 years of experience in the financial services industry across EMEA and Asia Pacific. After studying fashion design and technology in Kuala Lumpur, she retrained in business completing a Diploma in Business Management and an MBA in London. Monica joined TOWER in January 2011 as General Manager of Marketing and Distribution... Read more...

Jan O'Neill (Group Human Resources Director, Telecom NZ Ltd)

Jan leads the Human Resources function pan-Telecom responsible for developing the people strategies, framework and initiatives that support the achievement of Telecom’s vision, mission and goals. She is focused on building the culture and developing the capabilities that will support the business transformation and drive performance.

Jan has worked across all areas of HR including leading the HR teams in both the Retail and Technology units, and leading the Group functions. In her earlier career she focused on remuneration & rewards... Read more...

Michelle Redington

Michelle is a Director in PwC's International Tax and Mergers & Acquisitions team. She has over 10 years of corporate tax experience representing clients in a wide range of industries. Michelle specialises in assisting multi-national corporations with restructures, acquisitions and disposals, and the development and implementation of tax efficient cross border structures. Michelle spent time in PwC's Sydney office and completed an LLM at the University of Sydney. She has just started training to run the New York marathon in 2012... Read more...

Marje Russ

Marje Russ is a Director of Tonkin & Taylor Group Ltd, a New Zealand-based, international environmental and engineering consultancy. She has been working in the field of environmental and sustainability management since the early 1980s in New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom. She specialises in auditing, sustainability reporting and assurance, management systems development and certification, environmental labeling and providing environmental regulatory advice. She is professionally qualified as an Environmental Planner and as a Lead Auditor and holds an MSc(Hons) in Resource Management... Read more...

Glynis Sandland

Glynis commenced at Westpac in August 2010 as Head of NZ Operations. With over 500 staff across 3 locations, Glynis and her team are responsible for the Banks transactional and support services providing a front line customer interface.

Before joining Westpac, Glynis was Head of Operations, GE Finance NZ. Glynis has a strong background in New Zealand Manufacturing and Service sectors leading corporate Human Resource, Industrial Relations and Operations... Read more...

Bridget Taylor

Bridget is the Creative Director and Managing Partner of Contagion, a new model of advertising agency that embraces digital and social media. Or, as Bridget says, we create infectious ideas that spark conversations. At home and abroad, Bridget has helped build some of the world's most recognisable brands. She is also the only New Zealander on the ABC's hit Australian show, The Gruen Transfer, where she aims to demystify advertising... Read more...

Janneke Van Wagtendonk

Janneke is responsible for leading the development and delivery of Fonterra's shared research and technical operations functions, which includes management of Fonterra's central R&D facility in Palmerston North which houses 400 R&D staff. Janneke is a member of several boards in the Manawatu. She has an MSc from the Agricultural University in Wageningen, the Netherlands. After 18 years in R&D and innovation management roles in the animal breeding industry in the Netherlands and New Zealand, she changed to an operational leadership role in the NZ dairy industry in 2005. Janneke is passionate about leading change, focused on improving value to customers; and encouraging people to learn, make a difference and have fun every day... Read more...

Janine Mountford

Jannine Mountford is the Commercial Manager of Fletcher Building Roof Tile Group, responsible for leading finance & IT teams located in NZ, Asia, Europe and USA. Prior to joining Fletcher Building, Jannine has held senior finance & IT roles in various Manufacturing and Not For Profit organisations, with experience in Strategy, Merger & Acquisitions, Governance, Risk Management and IT system implementations. Jannine is a Chartered Accountant and member of New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants Corporate Sector Advisory Group.