Paul Winton
Principal
Temple: Capital
Investment Specialists

Tenby Powell
Director
New Zealand Rental
Group

Grant McGregor
Director
Corporate Banking
ANZ National Bank

Paul founded Temple: Capital Investment Specialists in 2003 in Auckland. Previously, Paul worked with global strategy consulting company McKinsey & Company serving clients in Australasia, Asia USA and Europe across multiple industry sectors. Temple serves clients around the words on a diverse range of complex capital investment decisions. Industry specialist areas include telecommunications, energy, civil infrastructure, health, retail, e-commerce, minerals and resources.

Paul was born in New Zealand and educated in New Zealand and Canada and holds a PhD in Electronic Engineering and a BE in Mechanical Engineering. His pastimes include adventure racing, youth counselling and independent travel.

Through his company Hunter Powell Investments, Tenby is a major shareholder and director of New Zealand Rental Group (formerly Rakino Group), having stood down as Group CEO in February this year. Today, New Zealand Rental Group comprises cornerstone business Hirepool, together with Port-A-Loo, Henderson Rentals, Rhodes Rental, Barricading Solutions and Castles Marquee Hire. Since Tenby took over in July 2003 Hirepool has grown from 14 to 86 general and specialist rental units to become the country’s rental equipment leader.

Tenby has held senior positions with Fletcher Challenge and Skellerup. He has also served in the Regular and Reserve Force of the New Zealand Army for 26 years and holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

Grant is a Director in ANZ National Bank's Corporate Banking business. Nationally he is responsible for developing the bank's expertise in the Privately Owned Business, Aged Care and Healthcare segments of the market. Additionally, in Auckland in 2009 he has been heavily involved in making sure that the ANZ and National Bank's senior bankers are able to provide hands-on support for customers and relationship managers to survive and thrive during these challenging recessionary times.

Grant was born in Edinburgh and spent 14 years in the private equity industry in Scotland working for 3i plc, one of the world's largest private equity companies. He and his family moved to New Zealand in 2004. He has worked for ANZ National Bank since then.

Rod Drury
Chief Executive Officer
Xero Limited

New Zealand Hi-Tech Entrepreneur of the Year in 2006 and 2007, Rod is chief executive officer of Xero Limited.

In 2006 Rod sold his award-winning email archiving software company, AfterMail, to USA publicly listed Quest Software.

An independent director of TradeMe and SQLServices at the time of their trade sales, Rod continues on the TradeMe Advisory Board and is also on the New Zealand Trade & Enterprise Beachhead Advisory Board.

Rod is a high profile advocate of New Zealand software industry and has provided angel funding to a number of new software companies in a bid to develop local talent and experience.

Since joining Vero in 2006, John has been responsible for measuring business performance, aligning business strategies and embedding Vero's strategic plan. Drawing upon his wide experience in adopting excellence practices, John is working collaboratively across the business to drive World Class business performance.

Born in Ireland, John has worked in the General and Life companies of Royal & Sun Alliance in the UK for 14 years and with a number of other companies including Allied Irish Bank, Aviva and Aegon, in quality initiatives and business excellence practices. John has also worked under the auspices of the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) in adopting their Excellence model.

Alasdair is Chief Executive Officer of EMA and a member of the Business New Zealand Council, the New Zealand Council for Infrastructure Development, Action Asia Advisory Committee, a board member of Auckland Business Forum and is Business New Zealand representative to APEC CEO meetings.

A qualified non practicing accountant, Alasdair was mayor of Thames Coromandel District Council from 1989 to 1998 and has been a member of the Auckland Regional Land Transport Committee and a director of Power New Zealand Limited and Health Waikato Limited and Commissioner of Waikato Area Health Board. Alasdair won the Computerland Excellence Award for CEO IT Vision in 2000.

Dr David Bibby
Dean of Science
Victoria University of
Wellington

Neville Jordan
Chairman
Endeavour Capital
Limited

Julia Raue
Chief Information Officer
Air New Zealand Limited

Professor David Bibby, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the Faculties of Science, Engineering and Architecture & Design at Victoria University of Wellington, joined Victoria in April 2003 following long-term research and teaching collaborations with staff and students.

As Pro Vice-Chancellor of the Faculties of Science, Engineering and Architecture & Design David Bibby is responsible for the resources allocated to the three Faculties, ca $55M, supporting eight schools, about 400 academics and general staff, and 3,500 students.

A graduate of the University of Loughborough, he subsequently received a PhD in 1970 and a DSc in 1995. Professor Bibby has many years experience in the management of science. He has enjoyed a significant career in the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research where he became Group Manager Science in DSIR Chemistry Division, and then became a General Manager in the Crown Research Institute, Industrial Research Ltd. He has served on a number of government advisory panels, including the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Taskforce. He is also a member of the management and advisory boards of various research Centres and Institutes, including the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, the Antarctic Research Centre, the Joint Antarctic Research Institute (with NIWA and GNS), the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research and the Board of Victoria Link Ltd.

In 1975 Neville founded MAS Technology Ltd, a telecommunications microwave company. He grew this from startup to a multinational company and achieved a successful IPO on the NASDAQ main board. Neville then founded Endeavour Capital which invests in science and technology companies. Endeavour has invested in over 20 companies, most of which are export focussed.

He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Professional Engineers NZ and was awarded the United Kingdom IEE Kirby Medal for “outstanding eminence and distinction in advanced technology”.

Neville has served on several government Ministerial Advisory committees, plus six years on the board of a Crown company, AgResearch, and three years each on the boards of the Foundation for Research Science & Technology and the Prime Minister’s Growth and Innovation Advisory Board. He is a retired Officer of the RNZNVR and honorary Captain in the Royal NZ Navy.

He has received the Governor General's Supreme award for Exporting and was invested in 1999 as Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit. He was inducted into the NZ Hi-Tech Hall of Fame in 2005 and the Business Hall of Fame in 2006. Neville is also a Past President of the Royal Society of NZ and holds an honorary doctorate in Engineering from Canterbury University.

Julia manages the centralised Air NZ Group IT department, which has some 220 permanent staff and an annual budget of circa $150M. Julia has been with the airline for ten years holding a number of different roles, and was appointed as CIO in April 2007. This role manages key portfolios including Production, Solutions, Architecture, Vendor Management, and Innovation & Ventures.

Julia has twenty years of experience in the IT industry, involving positions in local government, and telecommunications, as well as charitable organisations. This experience has involved a wide range of roles including business establishment and general management, systems analysis and design, software development and program management.

Julia is passionate about her role, and of the airline’s commitment to improving information systems and technology, and praises Air New Zealand’s continuing support for Kiwi ingenuity in the information technology field. “This reflects the airline’s determination to foster an environment of technological excellence and champion the cause of local research and development – and I am very proud to be a part of it. I see IT as an enabler that can help the airline successfully achieve its business goals. Our goal is to continue to deliver innovative solutions which will make Air New Zealand more nimble and able to respond to changing customer needs.” she says.

Professor Sir Paul Callaghan
Victoria University of Wellington

Mr Jon Mayson
Chairman
New Zealand Trade & Enterprise

Mr Gordon McLauchlan
Author and Broadcaster

Mr Rod Oram
Business Journalist

Sir Paul Callaghan is a graduate of Oxford University (DPhil), and of Victoria University of Wellington where he is Alan MacDiarmid Professor of Physical Sciences. Paul is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and is currently President of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance. He is a regular public speaker on science matters. In 2007 one of his radio series with Kim Hill appeared in book form,  As Far as We Know: Conversations about Science, Life and the Universe, and a 2009 book, Wool to Weta: Transforming New Zealand's Culture and Economy, deals with the potential for science and technology entrepreneurs to diversify New Zealand's economy.

Jon Mayson is chair of the board of New Zealand Trade & Enterprise, and a past president of Export New Zealand. Previously CEO of Port of Tauranga Limited, he is a professional director and consultant and currently chairs several private company boards involved in manufactured exports and logistics. His consultancy work in New Zealand and offshore has been focused around port privatisation and transport logistics. Jon is a Fellow of the Institute of Management, a member of the Institute of Directors and has an MBA in International Management. He was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2006.

Gordon McLauchlan has been a freelance journalist/writer since 1973. He has been a books editor (New Zealand Herald), a newspaper columnist, an investigative reporter (National Business Review) and a presenter of radio and television programmes. His books include: The Passionless People (1976), a social commentary; The Acid Test (1981), an anthology of New Zealand humour; Bateman’s New Zealand Encyclopedia, (1984); The Big Con (1992), a political commentary; The Story of New Zealand Beer (1995); A History of New Zealand Humour (1998); A Short History of New Zealand (2004); A Life’s Sentences (2004), a memoir; The Farming of New Zealand (2007); The Life and Times of Auckland (2008).

Rod Oram has more than 30 years’ experience as an international business journalist including with the Financial Times in London and New York and as editor of Business Herald in Auckland. He is currently a columnist for the Sunday Star-Times and Good magazine; a regular broadcaster on radio and television; and a frequent public speaker on business and economic issues. Rod is an adjunct professor in the business faculty at Unitec in Auckland. He is the 2009 winner of Landcorp’s Agricultural Communicator of the Year award, and the author of Reinventing Paradise, a book about the New Zealand economy, published by Penguin in 2007.