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Richard Keyse
Chair
Richard commenced his career in New Zealand before moving to Australia then to the United Kingdom.
He has managed strategically important business transformation programmes for many blue chip companies across a diverse range of sectors including Insurance (National Mutual, MMI), Oil (Chevron Texaco), and Utilities (National Grid Corporation, British Telecom).
Most recently he has focused on establishing new businesses and delivering global solutions into the finance sector (including SG Warburg, Merrill Lynch, Blackrock, Aviva Investors, Instinet/Nomura and BNP Paribas), leading many distributed teams across Europe, the United States, India and South East Asia.
Richard has held various executive and non-executive roles across New Zealand and the UK and for 7 years has provided mentoring and advice to a large number of NZ companies entering the European market.
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Paul Axworthy
Paul Axworthy is Group Director, IT for Johnson Matthey Plc, one of the world's leading and most technically advanced speciality chemicals and precious metals refining businesses.
Paul joined Johnson Matthey in 1987. He has spent his career managing IT in large international manufacturing businesses with a remit covering Europe, the United States, Asia and more recently countries emerging from the former Eastern bloc.
More recently he has become responsible for the development of Johnson Matthey's unified communications strategy in voice, video and conferencing including the provision of advanced technology to facilitate and encourage more flexible working models.
Johnson Matthey has grown rapidly in the last few years through strong organic growth and a number of strategic acquisitions. The enlarged business makes consistent investments in the new and innovative uses of IT.
Paul is based in the United Kingdom.
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Bernard Cazenove
Commissioned in the Coldstream Guards in 1967, Bernard Cazenove served in the United Kingdom, Germany, Northern Ireland and New Zealand. He was the Aide-de camp to the Governor General Sir Arthur Porritt in 1971.
On returning to the United Kingdom Bernard transferred to the Parachute Regiment (TA) and joined Cazenove & Co, stockbrokers. He became a partner of Cazenove in 1982 and was responsible for managing pension and charitable funds. In 1996 he was appointed Managing Director of Cazenove Fund Management until retiring in 2004.
Bernard is a trustee of a number of army charities and St Luke's Hospital. He also advises charities on their investments. He is a member of the Court of Patrons of The Royal College of Surgeons, an Honorary Fellow of Darwin College Cambridge, Freeman of the City of London and member of the Worshipful Company of Dyers.
Bernard is based in the United Kingdom.
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Erik Dijkstra
A true entrepreneur with a farming background, Erik set up the distributorship for Gallagher products in Europe. He has grown this business into a multimillion Euro operation with nine subsidiaries in various European countries.
He has been responsible for creating a market share of more then 50 percent in various countries for Gallagher. This was done through building a market share from scratch as well as through takeovers/mergers. Consequently he has extensive knowledge of the agricultural retail business.
Today Erik is a board member/shareholder/consultant in various international start-up businesses and has led many takeovers or mergers in the small/middle size business area. He is also a member of various public safety boards and chairs the Electric Fencing Association in the United Kingdom.
With 30 years of experience, working with agricultural related New Zealand companies, he has built an excellent knowledge of the interchange between New Zealand and European culture. Erik is also a generalist with knowledge of all business aspects.
Erik is based in The Netherlands.
Watch Eric Dijkstra on YouTube:
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Richard Excell
Richard Excell holds a number of senior roles in industry, academia, and government.
He is an experienced and successful international chief executive, chairman and public company director across a wide range of sectors including Consumer Goods, Agriculture and Advanced Manufacturing.
His primary expertise after 13 years management with Procter and Gamble in Marketing, Sales and HR, is in corporate strategy and business development.
Amongst his business portfolio of responsibilities, Richard is Chairman and a founder of PegasusBridge Investment Fund Limited, which is focused on the defence and homeland security sector.
He has also, over the past 15 years, been an apolitical Senior Advisor to the United Kingdom and other international Governments in the development of Innovation Policy.
This has covered knowledge exploitation, entrepreneurialism, tax treatment and skills/culture/regulations.
He has recently completed his four year term as Chairman of SET squared, the United Kingdom’s largest
university/industry collaboration aimed at exploiting new technologies, with over £300 million of research funds.
He also holds a number of trusteeships in both the University and private education sector.
This wide portfolio of interests and expertise gives Richard a substantial number of high level international contacts in industry, government, and academia.
Richard is based in the United Kingdom.
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Dr Elizabeth Hill
Elizabeth has over 20 years' experience working in healthcare, pharma and biotech.
She is currently a Director at Cambridge Consultants and Heads the Pharmaceutical and Biotech Consulting Practise.
She works with major pharmaceutical companies, biotech and medtech companies as well as with governments, identifying strategic needs in technology for the global market place.
In addition to strategic assessments, Elizabeth conducts many due diligences in support of investments and other business transactions, exceeding an aggregate value in transactions of $1bn since 2006.
Previously, Elizabeth developed technology opportunities in China for medical devices and biotechnology.
She has given talks in China, Canada, the US, Taiwan and across Europe on technical due diligence, setting up start-up companies and technology convergence.
She has held a number of non-executive and executive directorships including a NHS Health Authority, and has published a number of articles on the emergence of stem cell therapy and its commercial potential.
Elizabeth is a regular commentator on the rise of stem cell therapy in the media, including recent pieces in the Independent newspaper and on BBC radio and online news.
She has also provided funds as a business angel and has invested in biotech, food and service companies.
Elizabeth is based in the United Kingdom.
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Anne Macartney
Anne is a catering and retail commercial strategist with considerable global management experience in travel retail (airports, air, motorways, rail and ferries) and high street within the retail, catering and leisure arenas.
She specialises in the private sector for start ups, turnarounds, change and business expansion/acquisition programmes.
Anne has operated at a senior level within a number of retail organisations as Commercial Director of Welcome Break, Global Buying and Merchandising Director for BAA World Duty Free growing sales from a zero base to over £1 billion in five years.
Since founding bespoke travel retail consultancy Adventus Retail in 2003, Anne has worked with a large number of banks and funds involved in purchasing large infrastructure companies (that specialise in catering or retail) delivering over 50 business reports in 28 countries.
She has also set strategies and developed networks, which have helped a large number of brands to launch and expand into the global retail market.
Anne has consulted for a large number of companies within the travel retail sector including international airlines, global airport operators, UK supermarkets, blue chip consultancies, European motorway amenities and national rail companies, primarily on delivering customer-focused commercial benefits.
Anne is based in the United Kingdom.
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Peter Methven, OBE
Peter Methven is a businessman with a wide range of business interests with a specialisation in the marine industry.
Peter’s work in the marine industry includes the leisure marine sector, superyachts and commercial and military vessels.
Educated at a naval school then qualifying as a yacht and boat builder, Peter’s working career has been mostly in the marine industry.
For the last 30 years one of his companies has operated an International Marine Consultancy advising and assisting marine companies with market development of their products.
Extensive travel with worldwide contacts in the industry gives Peter a wealth of knowledge of all aspects of the marine industry. Peter is the Vice President of the International Council of Marine Industries Association (ICOMIA), a Freeman of the City of London and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights.
He is also a past president of the British Marine Federation, a role he held for an unprecedented three and a half years. Peter has been honoured with an OBE for services to the marine industry.
Peter is based in the United Kingdom.
Watch Peter Methven on TV3's ASB Business programme
Read about Peter Methven in Seaspray Magazine
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Geert Van der Elst
Geert Van der Elst is Managing Director at Gelst, helping clients grow revenues across Europe by focusing on the consultative sale.
Gelst is based in London and Munich, with an outpost in New York. Typical clients include professional services firms, technology firms, venture capital firms and their portfolio companies across Europe.
Before founding Gelst in 2003, Geert helped Accenture’s Public Sector business grow across Europe, Canada, South-America and Africa by a compounded average of about 33 percent per year for four years, with an essentially stable marketing budget.
Fluent in Dutch, English, French and German, Geert has a Masters in engineering and an MBA (Columbia University).
He started his career at Agfa in the Graphic Arts industry in the United States and went on to grow global product groups from Agfa’s global headquarters in Belgium.
Geert is based in the United Kingdom.
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Dr Mark Wade
Mark offers a unique range of experiences and competencies to bring sustainability thinking into the mainstream of major corporations and institutions.
Mark enjoyed a long career with Shell serving in a variety of posts. In 1997 he moved to the Corporate Centre of Shell International as a founder member of the Sustainable Development Group.
Mark relinquished his position as Head of Sustainable Development Policy, Strategy & Reporting early 2003 on moving to Shell Learning. Here he led the Sustainable Development Learning programme incorporating sustainability into all stages of the talent pipeline from graduate attraction to senior executive development.
Until his retirement from Shell in 2006, Mark was Shell’s Liaison Delegate to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.
He is a member of the Supervisory Board of the European Academy of Business in Society and a Trustee of the Centre for Tomorrow’s Company. He is Chairman of the consultancy Future Considerations and serves on the Responsible Investment Advisory Board of the British Venture Capitalist Association.
He now works with senior executives in companies and institutions helping them understand the operational and strategic importance of sustainability and guiding organisational and individual change.
Mark is based in the United Kingdom.
Watch Dr Mark Wade on TV3’s ASB Business programme
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Charles Ward
Charles Ward is Chief Operating Officer of Intellect, the industry body for the IT, telecoms and electronics sectors in the United Kingdom.
Intellect is a membership organisation that focuses on helping companies become top performers by providing insights into markets and supply chains as well as services to improve business performance.
Intellect also works with government and regulators to create the most favourable business environment for the hi-tech industry.
Charles has day-to-day involvement with Intellect UK’s 800 member companies, spanning multi-nationals to start-ups, and is well informed on United Kingdom market conditions.
Prior to Intellect Charles worked for Compaq (previously Digital), in Germany and Switzerland. He has knowledge of the banking technology and health care markets having held a variety of international marketing and sales roles in De La Rue, Johnson & Johnson and 3M.
Since 2004 Charles has been a member of the European Information Technology Observatory (EITO) task force, which oversees the monitoring and analysis of trends in the technology sector across Europe.
Charles is a regular conference speaker and has authored best practice guidance publications on both in-bound and out-bound market entry for hi-tech companies.
Charles is based in the United Kingdom.
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Crosbie Burns
Specialist Advisor
Crosbie Burns leads ServiceSource’s global expansion efforts from the company’s European headquarters in Dublin. He has over 20 years of experience in the IT sector, focused on ERP solutions for medium-and large-enterprise companies.
Before joining ServiceSource, Crosbie was Vice President and Managing Director of the UK and Ireland operations for PeopleSoft, following the acquisition of J.D. Edwards. He was largely responsible for the successful integration of the two companies in the UK.
Previously Crosbie was UK Managing Director of J.D. Edwards where he was responsible for shifting the company’s focus to providing solutions with increased business value. Other experience includes management roles at Momentum Computing and Creative Computers in Australia.
Crosbie holds a bachelor of commerce degree from Canterbury University in New Zealand and is based in the United Kingdom.
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Neil Gaught
Specialist Advisor
Neil has worked around the world on strategic positioning projects on behalf of corporations – large and small, not for profits, governments, cities and regions.
Over the past 20 years, he has led international teams on the completion of major programmes for Standard Chartered Bank, Merrill Lynch, De Beers, OECD, the World Bank, Alliance for Financial Inclusion and Cancer Research UK.
He was a senior consultant with The Brand Union and also worked for Interbrand – two of the largest brand and identity consultancies in the world.
Before joining them in 1999 he had founded and run his own brand and design consultancy for nearly 10 years.
In 2003 Neil moved to New Zealand where he joined the Brand Union’s strategic partner DesignWorks as Consultant Director.
In 2007 he re-established his own consultancy, advising many of NZ’s top corporations and public-sector bodies on brand strategy and reputation management.
Returning to the UK in 2009 he helped found Gaught Conlon. Recent strategic communications work for Gaught Conlon clients has taken him to Lebanon, Jordan, Kenya, Indonesia, Thailand and Mexico amongst other countries closer to his home near Cambridge.
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Nigel Gaymond
Specialist Advisor
Nigel is the former Chief Executive of the BIA (UK BioIndustry Association) where he worked to encourage and promote a thriving, financially sound sector of the UK economy, built upon developments across the life sciences.
He remains focused on strengthening the UK bioscience community and securing the nation’s position as a major global hub for the life sciences.
Nigel has over 25 years of experience in the life sciences. This includes the business development, corporate and government affairs and consulting arenas of the sector.
He started his career in the life sciences at the British Consulate-General in Boston, Massachusetts, where he was responsible for managing the Commercial Department.
He went on to become the UK’s lead Commercial Officer for biotechnology in the United States.
In 1992, he founded Gaymond International, which provided executive level management and commercialisation consulting services around the globe and across the sector, including biotechnology, medical device/technology, pharmaceutical, veterinary health and agricultural biotechnology.
Clients included bioscience companies, academic and research institutes, governmental agencies and service providers to the sector.
Earlier, Nigel worked for IBM in sales and marketing and, before that, as a school teacher. He earned his B.Sc. in Linguistic and International Studies (Russian, Swedish and Law) from the University of Surrey and a post-graduate degree in education from Madeley College. Nigel enjoyed a long first class rugby career and played on two national championship teams. He was also formerly a semi -professional jazz musician (drums).
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Michel Georgin
Specialist Advisor
Michel Georgin is a graduate engineer (Polytechnique Paris) and economist.
He started as a civil servant in the Ministry of Economy Development. His career spans more than 30 years in technology industries, starting with Alcatel and 25 years with Thales/Thomson-CS.
Initially working in IT systems and controlling, he moved into strategy and financial roles, including CFO, GM of International Business (software products, defence systems and IT services) and VP Strategy.
In 2006 he was appointed VP International Operations and was responsible for North America, Australia and New Zealand. Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and Austria were later added to this role.
Michel retired in 2010 and uses his expertise to coach start-ups in France and advise international companies of their development in Continental Europe.
A French citizen, based in Paris, Michel speaks English, German and Italian.
Michel is an active business angel and member of the Ecole Polytechnique foundation.
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Andrea Moiraghi
Specialist Advisor
Andrea Moiraghi is in charge of Management Consultancy and Corporate Taxation at the law firm Studio Legale, where he is a Senior Partner.
He has extensive experience of company set-up, management and personnel recruitment within the EU and overseas.
Andrea has a broad business and trading background encompassing financial, IT and HR management, acquired in previous roles as administration and finance director of multinational companies and Joint Ventures in Italy and abroad such as Prada America’s Cup and Blockbuster Italia S.P.A.
He gained extensive know-how on Merger and Acquisitions and Audit with Price Waterhouse Coopers.
Andrea possesses specific expertise on company start-up in different sectors from retailing through to manufacturing, gained in Italy and overseas.
Andrea also has good knowledge of the New Zealand business environment with a background specific to the New Zealand boating business, having served in New Zealand for over 6 years as Director of Prada America’s Cup NZ Ltd - a fully-owned local company of Gruppo Prada, a leading Italian Luxury Group - attending two America’s Cup campaigns.
He is a statutory auditor and auditor of several public companies. His experience includes advising a range of industry sectors and manufacturing industries.
Andrea is based in Milano and he liaises with the NZTE Milano office.
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Jeni Mundy
Specialist Advisor
Jeni Mundy is the CTO for Vodafone UK, with responsibility for both IT and the mobile network, from architecture through to operations. She has 15 years experience in telecommunications in both New Zealand and UK, working through growth years of 1990s and the more mature industry years of the 2000s.
Originally from the UK, Jeni spent 11 years working in New Zealand, originally for Bell South as a Radio Engineer. She became CTO for Vodafone New Zealand in 2001. During her four years in this role she oversaw the network expansion as Vodafone went through rapid growth to become market leader, also the introduction of 3G and mobile internet Live! service for both New Zealand and Australia.
She came back to the United Kingdom in 2005 to become Director of Telecoms Systems for Vodafone UK and led the launch of 3G Broadband. Since 2007 she has been CTO. Operating in a very competitive market through recession she has driven structural change and reshaped the operating model and sourcing strategy in both IT & Networks. Improving both operational stability and time to market while leading the UK market in introduction of market leading speeds and new products including SureSignal, externally benchmarked as #1 Network and winning Mobile News Best Network 2010.
Jeni has a BSc in Maths with Philosophy and a Masters in Electronic Engineering.
Jeni has a passion for sailing and has competed in two Whitbread (now Volvo) Round the World Races, the first on board Maiden, the first all-female crew.
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Joanne Rogers
Specialist Advisor
Joanne is an experienced public relations and marketing professional with a track record of driving integrated communications programmes that deliver business success and shareholder value. From raising a profile to effective campaign management, Joanne helps clients enhance their competitiveness and achieve business objectives using effective communication strategies.
Joanne has extensive board level consultancy experience, having worked with a diverse range of organisations in the public and private sectors worldwide. Her work has included advising government departments, international trade and investment agencies, major corporations, professional services firms and entrepreneurs.
She is currently Managing Director and Joint Owner of Prowse & Company Limited – an award-winning boutique PR and marketing consultancy, which operates across a wide range of industry sectors.
Joanne has established EVEolution Enterprises CIC, a Social Enterprise company which embraces the 'Big Society' ethos and champions women's enterprise by supporting those considering self employment or career progression to board level. She is also a Director of Surrey Connects Local Enterprise Partnership and sits on the IoD's national membership committee.
Joanne holds full membership of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, the Chartered Institute of Marketing and the Institute of Directors (IoD).
She is a former member of the Foreign Press Association and the BBC Advisory Panel.
Joanne began her career at the BBC in London, prior to joining worldwide PR consultancy Hill & Knowlton.
