Membership

Dean Bracewell has been managing director of the Freightways Group since 1999.
 
He joined the group in 1979 and apart from a five-year period which included time overseas, he has spent his entire career with the company. He held a range of senior executive and general management roles in a number of the Freightways businesses prior to his appointment as managing director.
 
Freightways is a leading provider of express package services throughout New Zealand, with complementary businesses servicing the information management and business mail sectors.
 
The group's origins date back to 1964 through New Zealand Couriers, a pioneer in the express package industry in New Zealand.

Michael’s background is in small business management and development. In 1985 Michael established a marketing business involved in product design, development and manufacturing. 

Mobility Research Centre Ltd is now a company predominantly focused on providing products and services for people with disabilities.  Michael has been instrumental in the development of both New Zealand and international standards and continues his role on the International Standards Committee.
 
Michael has also been involved in the New Zealand marine industry for some 15 years.  His roles include past director of IMTEC and founder and former director of the Auckland International Boat Show.
 

Sir William is CEO of the Gallagher Group, a worldwide group of companies specialising in animal management and business security systems including Cardex. Its products include security fences, fuel pumps, plastic moulding and swipe cards. 
 
He was awarded the MBE in 1987, and the Queen's Medal (Commonwealth) in 1990. He was the 1996 winner of the prestigious IABC Excellence in Communication Leadership award, the first time since its inception in 1961 that the award had gone outside North America. In 1998 Sir William was awarded Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (CNZM) in the Queen's New Year Honours List. He won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2003 and in 2004 was inducted as a laureate into the National Business Review/Minter Ellison Business Hall of Fame.  
 
Sir William has a strong and active commitment to the Waikato region. He is a major sponsor of the Rescue Helicopter, Waikato Stadium, Mounted Police, Gallagher Community Swimming Pool, Gallagher Hockey Centre and supported the establishment of the Performing Arts centre at Waikato University. He is also involved with many other civic and community organisations.

David is CEO, ANZ New Zealand. He is responsible for the National Bank of New Zealand and ANZ in New Zealand as well as leading ANZ’s commercial segment on a global basis.

Previously, David was ANZ group managing director commercial for Australia based in Melbourne.

During his 30-year career at ANZ, David has held a number of senior executive roles in retail and commercial banking, including two years as managing director of UDC in New Zealand between 1998 and 2000.

David holds a Bachelor of Business (Accounting) from Deakin University, a Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from Monash University, and an Executive Masters of Business Administration from Monash University (Mt Eliza).

He is a past recipient of the FINSIA annual scholarship.

He is a founding director of the charity, Second Bite, a fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia, and an associate of the Australian Society of Accountants.
 

Stephen Jennings is chief executive of Renaissance Group, including Renaissance Capital, the leading investment bank in Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent States and sub-Saharan Africa. Born and schooled in Taranaki, he studied business and economics at Massey and Auckland, before joining the New Zealand Treasury. Later he worked with Credit Suisse First Boston before founding Renaissance Capital in Moscow in 1995.
 
Stephen has been ranked by London’s Financial News as among the top 100 most influential people in European capital markets and has been described by a fellow banker as the only foreign oligarch in Russia. Stephen Jennings is enthusiastic about the business and economic opportunities in some of the new, high-growth nations of the world. Most recently he has been involved in the enormous renaissance of sub-Saharan Africa where he has now spends much of his time.
 
Stephen delivered the Sir Ronald Trotter Lecture in 2009 

Mike Pohio was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Tainui Group Holdings in 2006. Prior to joining Tainui Group Holdings, Mike held a number of senior management positions for companies including Port of Tauranga, Fonterra, New Zealand Dairy Group and Elders Pastoral. Mike gained an MBA from IMD, Switzerland in 1999 and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of New Zealand. He is a director of NZL Group and was recently appointed as a director of Transpower.

Dave graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Manchester, Institute of Science & Technology.  He joined the BOC Group where he held a number of operational and senior management roles in the UK and Asia until 2007.
 
Dave joined OneSteel as general manager of the newly acquired Smorgon Reinforcing business and subsequently rebranded it to the Australian Reinforcing Company, ARC.
 
In October 2009, after 18 months with OneSteel, Dave and his family relocated to Wellington, where he took on the role of chief executive officer, Steel & Tube Holdings Ltd.