Mayfield Governance Workshops

Contributors

Janine Smith, MNZM, BCom, MPhil (hons - 1st class)

Professional Director

Janine has been a company director for over 20 years. She is a founding principal of The Boardroom Practice Limited (TBPL). TBPL specialises in boardroom practice, organisational development, and change issues for boards and management.

She is chair of REANNZ (Advanced Research Education Network). She is the only independent member of Fonterra’s Governance Development Committee and a council member of AUT. Janine is President of the London Business School alumni Auckland chapter and a well-known judge of business awards. She is a member of ArcAngels and Global Women.

  • Janine has held a number of non-executive independent board positions as director and chair in public listed companies, state-owned enterprises, private companies and with companies in the arts and education sectors. She was a member of the screening panel for Crown directors for over 10 years. Janine held executive director positions with Telecom Directories and Arnott’s NZ, where she was the GM/ CEO.

    In 2010, Janine completed a Master of Philosophy (research only) on effective boards from Inside the Boardroom. This study was one of the first of its kind in the world. She received an MNZM for services to corporate governance in the 2015 New Year’s Honours List.

    Specialist areas:

    Governance Development Programme, Governance Fundamentals Workshop, Finance Workshop, Strategy Workshop, Two Day Co-op Workshop.

David Tweed

Associate Professor, Director and Strategist

David is Mayfield's lead online facilitator. He is a workshop contributor and facilitates the monthly Zoom case study calls.

David has designed, directed, and delivered many governance development programmes over the past decade. This includes integrated and substantial programmes, one of which is firmly located in the cooperative sector. Another of David’s programmes required the design and delivery of multiple governance master classes for the boards of many state owned enterprises.

  • David is a graduate of the London Business School and completed the LBS Senior Executive Programme after six years of senior management experience.

    David enjoys working with directors at any level of governance competence. He supports the development of emerging directors through to coaching and extending those with more experience. He is currently the programme director of Fonterra’s Governance Development Programme.

    David has served in many governance roles over more than 25 years, mostly in NFPs. He is currently board chair for a private company and on the board of a trading trust employing more than 300 staff.

    In 2010, Janine completed a Master of Philosophy (research only) on effective boards from Inside the Boardroom. This study was one of the first of its kind in the world. She received an MNZM for services to corporate governance in the 2015 New Year’s Honours List.

    Specialist areas:

    Governance Development Programme, Governance Fundamentals Workshop, Finance Workshop, Strategy Workshop, Two Day Co-op Workshop.

Tim Gibson

CEO and Senior Executive

Tim has over 20 years’ experience as a CEO and Senior Executive in New Zealand, the UK and Japan. He has particular strengths in exporting and international business, organisation design and performance, strategy development and implementation and stakeholder and government relations.

Tim’s career spans roles in the New Zealand Dairy Industry, in New Zealand, Asia and Europe. He was also the inaugural CEO of NZ Trade and Enterprise. Tūhana is a consulting business offering advisory services in Asia, Africa and the Pacific on economic development, dairy sector development, and landowner issues.

Tim is currently a director of Port Otago Limited, Miraka Limited, Livestock Improvement Corporation Limited, and the Equanut Company Ltd. He is the chair of Skills Group.

Greg Gent, NZOM

Board Chair, Director and Board Advisor

Greg Gent has an extensive career in governance, spanning several decades and across multiple sectors, along with significant experience with the co-operative business model.

Greg is currently the Chair of Seafood NZ, Dairy Holdings, and a board advisor to the Shanghai/Penxgin Group.  He is the past Chair of Southern Cross Health Care Group, past chair of FMG, past Director of Fonterra, Plant & Food Research, Equestrian Sports NZ and others. Greg was also Chair of Cooperative Business NZ’s Board before retiring.  

  • Being involved in both the agriculture sector and the financial services and health, Greg has a wealth of knowledge and experience which is hugely beneficial to Cooperative Business NZ members.

    He was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2012.

    Greg lives in Ruawai with four dairy farms and a beef operation.

Susan Hansen

Board Chair, Non-executive Director

Susan has been a Non-executive Director of listed and unlisted companies in Australia, New Zealand and the UK since 2000.  She is currently on a number of boards where she serves as Chair of the Audit Committee on the majority of them and is Chair of Resimac New Zealand Limited.  Susan is the author of several books, with her Simply Finance now in its sixth edition.

Susan is an experienced facilitator having facilitated Executive courses at University of Auckland Business School since 2005 and the Amsterdam Institute of Finance since 2008 and now for Mayfield Group.

  • Susan believes many people are appointed to boards due to their existing skills, talents and experience, but being an effective board member requires governance skills too.  Good governance is a critical success factor to long term business success and her hope is that she can share her knowledge and experiences so as to contribute to better board governance all over New Zealand.

    Travel is one of Susan’s loves, particularly in nature and this has given her a great appreciation of wildlife, which she tries to capture in photos.  She likes to visit the great walks in New Zealand and the rest of the world, which coincidentally lead to a few vineyards.

Jo Clayton

Coach & Director

Jo provides individual and team coaching for board management teams. She helps clients address business capability and capacity issues. She ensures the right mechanisms are in place to enable management to implement plans and meet board monitoring requirements.

Jo has been the Director of Leadership Development Programme at The Icehouse for nearly 15 years.

Jo holds a number of board roles, and provides advice to companies in the early stages of formalising their governance structures and forming an advisory board.

Lynda Carroll

Lynda Carroll, CMInstD

Professional Director, CEO, Board Chair and Deputy Chair

Lynda has over 25 year’s governance experience, including chair and deputy chair roles. Lynda has led People and Performance and Nominations sub-committees, and been a member of Finance, Audit and Risk, Fundraising and Sponsorship, and Future Operating Environment sub-committees.

She has worked for nearly thirty years interfacing with chief executives, senior managers, boards and key shareholders/ stakeholders. These roles have been within the private, not for profit and state sectors in New Zealand and internationally.

  • She specialises in:

    • Facilitation of strategy, purpose and foresight sessions

    • Facilitation of organisation planning

    • Future thinking and the associated tools

    • Organisation Culture

    • Governance evaluation, development and support

    • Organisation transformation and change

    Lynda is a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Directors and an accredited Foresight Practitioner through the Institute of the Future in California. Lynda is Chief Executive Officer of Align Group Limited, a small consulting company that specialises in aligning strategy, governance, culture and performance.

    She has held a range of Chair and Deputy Chair roles across private, public and not-for-private entities. She is currently Deputy Chair of the New Zealand String Quartet.

Craig Maskell

Cyber Security Strategist

Craig is a seasoned cyber leader with over 24 years of experience in architecting and delivering comprehensive cyber capabilities. He is dedicated to helping businesses understand their cyber risks and developing robust strategies and capabilities to effectively manage those risks in alignment with their core business objectives.

Craig has demonstrated strong expertise in collaborating with business leaders across various sectors, including government, telecommunications, finance, utilities, and critical infrastructure providers. Leveraging his technical expertise and deep risk management and governance experience, he supports businesses making informed investment decisions in safeguarding their critical information systems and services.

  •  Craig has worked in information security for global technology organisations including IBM Global Services, Verizon Business EMEA, T-Systems and Vodafone. He led and delivered numerous large scale, highly complex programs spanning a broad range of enterprise environments that encompassed the information security domains.

    Specialty

    • Cybersecurity strategy

    • AI and emerging technology trends

    • Governance and compliance

    • Risk management

    • Technical expertise

    • Digital identity governance and access management

    • Network security and cyber managed services

    • Security architecture and consultancy

Alison Posa

Professional Director

Alison is a company director on the boards of AsureQuality and City Forests. She is a member of the Audit Advisory Board of PwC and Chair of the Risk Committee at AsureQuality.

Alison worked in finance and strategy for multinational companies. Her previous roles include CFO for Australia/NZ for Kraft Foods, and five years with Mondelez International in Dubai and Singapore.

Alison has a first-class honours degree in business management from the University of Waikato. She is a chartered accountant and a chartered member of the Institute of Directors.

Harold Hillman

Director, Coach, Author, TEDx Presenter

Harold Hillman is the Managing Director of Sigmoid Curve Consulting Group. Sigmoid specialises in helping executive & leadership teams lead their organisations through major change with collective ownership and commitment to strong results.

Over the past two decades, as both a senior executive and external coach, Hillman has coached CEOs, executive teams and leaders in New Zealand and globally. Hillman's client organisations have included Kraft Foods, Mondelez, Fonterra, Air New Zealand, Genesis Energy, Vector, Transpower, TVNZ, Sealord, Refining NZ, National Australia Bank, TSB, Auckland Council, Dunedin City Council, Heineken NZ, Southern Cross NZ, WorkSafe NZ, FMG, and Achmea Australia.

Sarah Williams

Director

As a culture, change and leadership development specialist, Sarah’s extensive international consulting career has led to her working with clients in the finance, manufacturing, education, retail, construction, primary industry, government, NFP, health, travel, hospitality and fashion sectors.

In addition to holding a Bachelor of Business in Management and Finance, she is also Certified in Conversational Intelligence®, an accredited Coaching Clinic® facilitator and contributor to the book “Options: Perception and Deception”.

Chris Bargery

Corporate Partner at Anderson Lloyd

Chris advises on a broad range of corporate and commercial matters, with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions and equity investments. His clients include private equity firms, domestic and international corporates and a broad range of private business owners.

In 2014, Chris established the Anderson Lloyd Auckland office with two other partners which has now grown to six partners and more than 15 other lawyers.

Chris is a member of the Anderson Lloyd board and is recognised as a leading New Zealand lawyer in a number of international directories.

Mark Heer

Principal, Director, Board Chair

Mark has 30 years’ experience in rural and corporate banking, manufacturing, wholesale and retail SMEs.

Since 2017, Mark has presumed a career as a professional independent director.

Mark holds a number of governance roles including board and advisory board chair roles across the agriculture and horticulture sectors. His governance involvement extends to industry good initiatives.

Notably, he is currently Chair of the ASB MAGS Farm Advisory Group and a Trustee for Dairy Women’s Network.

Peter Withers

Strategist and Lecturer

Peter is an independent strategist, executive coach, business lecturer and business/community mentor. 

He teaches strategy and international business in the Massey University Executive MBA programme. He provides coaching input for other co-op governance development programmes and community mentoring for Tauranga non-profits.

As a strategy facilitator, he has worked internationally with business, tertiary education, and non-profit entities. He previously worked in trade policy negotiation and trade promotion experience as a New Zealand diplomat.

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