Paul White, David Carter
Engineering organisation Beca Carter Hollings & Ferner has appointed White and Carter to its board. White is managing director of Beca’s management services group, and Carter heads the company’s water and environmental business.
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Allanah Gabriel
The Stamford Plaza in Auckland has appointed Gabriel as its new business development manager.
Rachel Bakalich, Sanjiv Bansal
Software firm J.D. Edwards has appointed Bakalich as its supply chain development manager, and Bansal as marketing consultant.
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David Babich
Babich joins the family firm Babich Wines as assistant general manager. He has degree in winemaking, and BCom in marketing and management.
Danise McEvoy
Bell Gully has appointed McEvoy as senior associate in the corporate and commercial department in Wellington.
Brent Wollaston, Stephanie Bowes, Sergio Amodeo
Griffins Foods has appointed three new directors, with Wollaston (left) as supply chain director, Bowes (middle) as marketing director, and Amodeo (right) joins as finance director from the Paris headquarters of Griffins’ parent company, Danone Group.
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Scott McCrea
House of Travel has appointed McCrea as manager of the corporate travel market. He was previously South Island manager for Air New Zealand.
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Rob MacGregor
MacGregor has been appointed New Zealand general manager of Budget Rent Car, after holding variety of senior management roles.
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Linda Turner
Turner is the new dean of Manukau Institute of Technology’s business school. She was formerly head of department, accountancy, law and finance at Unitec.
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Cairo Walker
Walker has been appointed Internet/Intranet manager for Woolworths (NZ). She was formerly project office manager.
Sharon Bennett
Prominent tax, business and legal publisher, CCH New Zealand, has appointed Bennett as publishing director. For the last two years she was senior tax analyst and head of the company’s tax information team. During that time she was contributing editor to number of publications including CCH’s flagship annual book, The New Zealand Master Tax Guide. Bennett takes over from outgoing managing director Bruce Murphy, who returns to his native Sydney after three years at CCH New Zealand to become chief technology officer for the Wolters Kluwer Asia-Pacific region.
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Lee Treadaway
Tax analyst Treadaway has been appointed publisher of CHH New Zealand’s newly formed accountants and financial managers group. The new position reflects CCH’s increasing focus on customer groups rather than product or subject areas. She joined CCH in 1995 as tax analyst, specialising in GST. Her expertise was recently utilised by CCH Australia, where she was seconded as an adviser when GST was introduced.
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Jane Strange
CCH also appointed Strange as sales and marketing manager. She joined Simpson and Grierson in private practice for three years. She then gained broad experience in small suburban law firm where she practised litigation, family and employment law. Strange joined CCH as an account manager in early 1997. In 2000 she took over the overall management of CCH’s customer services and call-centre, which was combined to form the marketing services group. Earlier this year she also took responsibility for CCH’s sales team.
Jason Murray
Murray has joined ROCOM Wireless’ corporate division as mobile computing specialist.
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Philip Cooper
Property developer Cooper has joined leading commercial property company Colliers Jardine Christchurch to focus on the tourism and investment market.
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Viv Beck
Communications Arts has appointed Beck as chief executive. She was previously general manager communications at New Zealand Post.
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Elizabeth Coutts
Coutts has been appointed chair of Meritec Group, after being non-executive director of the board since 1998. She is director of Air New Zealand, Vending Technologies, Industrial Research, Pharmac, NZ Tennis Inc, Public Trust Office and Viking Pacific Holdings.
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Kevin Brewer
Sky City has appointed Brewer as general manager group business development, responsible for evaluating future investments and acquisitions. He was formerly director of finance and operations with Wendy’s.
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Tony Egan
AFFCO Holdings has appointed Egan as its chief operating officer. He was formerly managing director with Waikato-based beef processor Greenlea Premier Meats.
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Allen Fraser
Fraser is Waitemata Health’s new chief medical officer – one of the first times New Zealand psychiatrist has been appointed as CMO in an acute general hospital.
