BOARD PROFILES

Brian Putt - Chairperson

Brian is a self employed town planner with 37 years of professional work in local, district, regional and central government planning. He has a long involvement with North Shore community organisations from his time as a councillor on the former Northcote Borough Council (from 1980). He was part of the establishment of Awataha Marae and Onepoto Awhina. Brian was an elected councillor on the inaugural North Shore City Council from 1989 -1992. He chaired the Northcote Soccer Club for 6 years and was a member and Chair of the Northcote College Board of Trustees for 7 years.

Brian’s interests remain in the strategic purpose and function of community development. He sees his professional skills as a valuable tool to assist in helping NSCSS confront and liaise with central and local government organisations.

Brian is married with 4 adult children and 3 grandchildren. He has lived in Northcote for 37 years.

Lisa Easte - Vice Chair

Lisa returns to the board after a few years break. She was on the board for 5 years around 2000.

Lisa Easte has been active in the world of counselling and supervision for over 20 years.

Special emphasis has been in the area of youth development. Initially trained as a psychologist with a masters’ degree from Auckland University she went on to gain practical skills by working for 19 years with Youthline in Auckland.

Initially as a telephone counsellor, then face to face counselling and training and supervision for others in the organisation. What started as a voluntary position to gain experience, grew into a full time job with a passion for youth.

Since 2005 Lisa has worked for Project K where she trains and supervises the mentors working with teenage clients. She is also responsible for the accounts and fundraising for Project K.

Marilyn Glover- Secretary

Marilyn has been married to Lew for 41 years. She has 2 adult sons, a lovely daughter-in-law and four grandchildren.

Marilyn has been involved in the voluntary sector since she was 14 years old in youth activities. Between her late 20’s into her 40’s years her volunteering as a mum has included: (Plunket, Kindergarten, sports teams, scouts, PTA, School Committees and Boards of Trustees ). Her involvement in the disability sector includes time with the Disabled Persons Assembly (locally and nationally), 16 years as Chair of the Disability Advisory Group to the North Shore City Council and a current member of the North Shore Disability Strategy Steering Committee. She was also Chair of the Wilson School Board of Trustees for 15 years. Marilyn has been a Rotarian since 1996 and treasurer of the Friends of the Takapuna Library for a number of years.

She is going to be a recipient of the Gold Card very soon - she says “hopefully my passion and commitment to working in the community will continue for some time yet.”

Anthony Paetawa Wilson - Board Member

In his early years, under expert tutorship by some of the country’s top Maori carvers, Anthony has developed his natural creative ability and understanding of Maori culture.

Since that time he has developed a background in television production and has worked in below and above the line advertising marketing communications agencies. Most recently he was Managing Partner for Weave, a division of DDB Advertising.

Of special note he has developed national and international brand identities for government, corporate, and the Maori sector. He has also developed a world first segmentation research tool, currently used by Nielsen Media, a division of the Nielsen Company world leaders in consumer market research.

As current Brand Chief of Creative Gene, a Maori Brand Communications Consultancy , Anthony also has a strong passion for working with at risk youth. He has pioneered a youth development programme Mana Rangatahi and works closely with Police, CYF, Ministry of Education, Iwi, North Shore City Council and local schools.

He is a founding member of Nga Aho – Maori Design Professionals, a board member of NSCOSS North Shore Community Organisations & Social Services, TeHotu Manawa Maori and Awataha Marae.

Professor Michael Belgrave joined North Shore Community & Social Services in July 2009. Michael is a Professor in History in the School of Social and Cultural Studies at Massey University in Albany. He has expertise in history, social policy and social service research and publishing. He has published in a range of different areas, including: social service and health delivery, social policy, the history of health and medicine and race relations history using methods that range from quantitative to oral.

Michael has also been the research manager for the Waitangi Treaty Tribunal and was responsible for all the research, hearing and reporting of all claims from 1987 to 1993. Some other of his key appointments include: Visiting Fellow, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge; Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge; Member of the Centres of Research Excellence (CORE) panel considering applications in the humanities, social sciences, education and public policy fields; Consultant to the New Zealand Law Commission on the legal recognition of Maori customary rights; Appointed to a group to advise the Secretary of Justice on constitutional reform and the Treaty of Waitangi.

Terry Hoskins is the Chief Executive of Enterprise North Shore, which is the economic development agency for North Shore City. He has operated in that role for over eight years.

Terry was educated and brought up in England where he managed and lead a range of enterprises. He has an MBA from Henley, England, and is a member the Institute of Accredited Business Consultants NZ, the Institute of Directors and the NZ Institute of Management. He is a Trustee of the Independent Business Foundation and North Shore Community and Social Services Inc.

Since arriving in New Zealand 18 years ago, he has run his own business, worked with a variety of enterprises as a business consultant, and was the Chief Executive of a medium sized business, prior to joining Enterprise North Shore. Terry has helped many enterprises to succeed and grow by taking a strategic view of their enterprises and building on their strengths.

Dr Emma Davies has worked for 20 years in the interface between research, practice and policy in government and non-government sectors. In 2007-9, she ran the Auckland Office of the Children‘s Commissioner.

As Principal Advisor, she worked with councils on a range of social development initiatives including child-impact reporting, child prostitution and family violence. This followed her secondment to the Ministry of Social Development as a Principal Analyst for the Taskforce for Action on Violence in Families, where she translated research into policy advice. She is currently ADHB‘s representative on the Advisory Group for the evaluation of the Tamaki Transformation Programme.

Emma returned to AUT in March 09 to take up the position of Programme Director – Social Development at the Institute of Public Policy..

STAFF PROFILES

Yvonne Powley- Executive Officer

Yvonne joined NSCSS in May 2009. She has a B.Soc.Sc. and has completed all the papers towards a M.Soc.Sc. and Dip.Com.Psych. (University of Waikato). Moving to Auckland in the early 1980s Yvonne has held numerous management positions including General Manager of Auckland New Ventures from 1994-2001. Since moving to the North Shore, Yvonne became the Director of Northcote College Community English School and Campus Manager of Sir George Seymour National College of Travel & Tourism.

In 2006, Yvonne set up her own business Pacifi c Research & Development, working for three years on various projects in the Pacifi c. She undertook a disaster assessment mission in the Solomon Islands after a tsunami and earthquake; worked with the Caritas Offi ce of Justice and Peace in PNG; made a risk analysis for Oxfam of going into West Papua, and worked on a UNICEF project looking at the preparation for Avian Infl uenza in Samoa. Yvonne is a Board member of RedR NZ and EWPANZ.

Yvonne has been awarded honours; APSNZ (Associate of the Photographic Society of NZ); has a Diploma in Photojournalism and studied Entrepreneurship at the University of Auckland Graduate School of Business. Yvonne lives in Birkenhead, is married, and has two children and three grandchildren.

Leanne Royden- Financial Administrator

Leanne has a strong background in accounting spending the last 14 years working in the accounting field as a financial controller and Office Manager. She began her career in the clerical area becoming a senior clerk and training officer with Social welfare in New Plymouth. Leanne has excelled at competitive sports competing in Duathalon Champs and Cycle races around New Zealand. She has two children and lives and works on the North Shore.

Monique Bahizi - Communications and Resource Coordinator

Monique has a long time interest in working with new migrants and refugees, teaching English as a second language as a volunteer for not-for-profit organisations. These roles including her present one as Communications and Resource Coordinator helps to fuel her passion for helping people connect and obtain information.

Monique is originally from the Congo but has lived in New Zealand most of her life. She has worked for many years in the travel industry and has a love of photography.

She lives on the North Shore with her husband and three children. As a mother she is involved and volunteers with many youth sporting and community activities.

Hayden Patel -  Communications

Hayden is currently in his first year studying towards a BSc in Physics and Computer Science at the University of Auckland. He has a number of years of experience working with technology, including being a key member of the Robotics team at Birkenhead College. In 2009 Hayden was Birkenhead College’s Head Boy, as well as being a top student, gaining Excellence endorsements at all three NCEA levels.

Hayden also enjoys acting and music and is a member of the University of Auckland’s show choir.

Kerry-Ann Stevenson -  Projects Co-ordinator

Kerry-Ann brings to our team experience in not for profi t, local government and business organisations. She has extensive experience working with Maori and Pasifi ka groups and as an independent consultant has undertaken numerous organisational reviews - assisting organisations in: strategic planning, policy development, service eff ectiveness auditing and stakeholder consultation processes and systems development.

She has a strong background in education and training and has run training programmes for boards and management teams across a broad range of organisations.

Kerry-Ann has a MBA from Auckland University and over the last two years has undertaken Te Ara Reo Maori Level 2 certifi cate programme with Te Wananga o Aotearoa.