NZBS board members
David Chamberlain - Board Chairman
David Chamberlain is currently Head of Bancassurance at Kiwibank. Prior to this position David worked as an independent consulting actuary for over 10 years. He has over 20 years commercial experience in the financial services sector and has experience both as an executive and as a Director.
David has a Bachelor of Economics from Macquarie University in Sydney, is a Fellow of the New Zealand Society of Actuaries, Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia and a member of the Institute of Directors. He currently serves as a member of the Council of Victoria University of Wellington.
David Wright – Deputy Board Chairman
David is a professional director and consultant with a career spanning both the corporate and state sectors. His health experience includes providing advice on business opportunities to amalgamate support functions of the 20 District Health Boards for Health Benefits Limited.
David previously held senior appointments in the meat, dairy and transport sectors including Chief Executive and Director of the Land Transport Safety Authority (LTSA) and Chief Executive of Dairy InSight Inc. He is currently Chair of Tonga Power Limited, Chair of Ports Authority Tonga and a director of Workbridge Inc and the New Zealand Domain Name Registry Limited.
David has an MBA awarded with Distinction and a BTech (Food) (Hons) degree.
Prof Peter Browett
Peter is a Consultant haematologist at Auckland City Hospital and Professor of Pathology and Chair of the Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland. He is a graduate of the University of Otago Medical School, and after postgraduate training in clinical and laboratory haematology in Auckland, he was a Wellcome – HRC research fellow in the Department of Haematology, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London.
On returning to a clinical academic position in Auckland, Peter has divided his time between the management of patients with haematologic cancers, including stem cell transplantation, teaching of medical students, and research on blood disorders. He is involved in several co-operative group and institution initiated clinical studies and also heads a laboratory research group with interests in the genetics of thrombosis and bleeding, molecular markers in leukaemia and the role of signalling pathways in acute leukaemia.
Peter is a committee member of the Auckland City Hospital Transfusion Advisory Committee and a board member and Medical Advisor to the Leukaemia and Blood Foundation.
Pamela Jefferies
Pamela is a Professional Director and consultant. Her health experience includes working on Right to Health issues with the Core Health Committee, the National Health Committee and the Health and Disability Commissioner. She is former Chief Commissioner of the New Zealand Human Rights Commission and had responsibility for establishing the Commission’s extended mandate to cover the rights of people with a disability.
She is a former member of Wairarapa District Health Board and WOOPS (Age Concern Wairarapa). She is Chairman of Biomedical Services NZ Ltd, a board member of UCOL Tertiary Institute, and a Trustee of Greytown District Trustlands Trust, Toi Wairarapa and We The People Foundation.
Recent governance roles have included 25 years with the National Australian Bank group including Chairmanship of National Australia Bank NZ Ltd and 14 years as a director of Bank of New Zealand.
She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, a Fellow of the New Institute of Directors. She is an accredited director and in 1994 was awarded an OBE for services to business management.
Tania Kingi
With a long history of involvement with the Health and Disability sector, Tania is currently a strategist for Te Roopu Waiora, a charitable trust founded and governed by Maori disability communities providing a range of whanau driven initiatives. Her specialist area is planning and analysing Maori development with a keen interest in indigenous research practices.
Tania is a member of Arau Ora, a collaborative network of health and disability organisations as well as the co-chair of Te Ora o Manukau – an intersectoral collective of Maori representatives from over 20 organisations. Tania is a director of Kaiarahi Tapiri Ltd, a community development company with a focus on intersectoral integration. A former practice auditor and contract manager for the Ministry of Health, Tania is the Auckland representative on the Aotearoa whanau carers’ network and a member of Kia Tu Tahi, Standing Together – the Ministerial Steering Group working with the Office of the Community and Voluntary Sector. Tania is also a Board Member of the Charities Commission, and an advisor to Te Taumata Roopu, a public health advisory group to the Ministry of Health.
Ian Ward
Ian is currently an appointed board member of the Auckland District Health Board, and has been on the ADHB board since 2007. He is also a Director of C4 Consulting Ltd, a Strategic Planning and IT Consulting Company and Chief Executive of the Auckland Energy Consumer Trust which is the 75% shareholder of Vector. Prior to these roles, Ian was General Manager Finance and Corporate Services at the Auckland Regional Transport Authority (now known as Auckland Transport) and prior to that CFO/GM Corporate Services at ADHB from 1998 – 2003.
Earlier in his career Ian worked for Carter Holt Harvey as Group Director of Change Management and General Manager of the Finance Pulp and Paper Group. He was a Managing Director at Educorp Services Ltd which was the major service provider to all schools in the Waikato / Bay of Plenty Region. Ian has also worked for Fletcher Challenge, initially as a Group Accounting Manager and subsequently as GM Finance for the Property and Construction Sector, where he also represented the Fletcher Challenge Group on a number of their Boards.
