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Kiwi Capital Ltd has appointed Raoul Collings as Group General Manager. He has extensive financial management experience in mortgage insurance, wholesale originator funding and more recently in mortgage management and origination.
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Executive Taskforce Group has appointed Roger Herbert to the position of candidate care
manager for Executive Taskforce. Roger has over ten years of recruitment experience in New Zealand and the UK, at a senior level as consultant, and as a specialist consultant in Health and the IT industry.
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New Zealand Fresh Cuts Ltd has appointed four new managers to head up the senior management team. Adelle Crombie has joined as product development manager with a broad range of food technology expertise. Glenn Duncan has been appointed group sales manager with extensive sales and marketing experience within FMCG to manage key relationships. Malcolm Black has been appointed to site operations manager. Malcolm brings to the company a background including FMCG, food tech and production within best practice.
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Leanne Ho joins to head up the finance and administration team as group financial controller. Ho will be tasked with the management of the group of companies in a financial and commercial capacity.
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Healthphone Solutions Limited has appointed Graham Robertson to the position of director delivery services. Mr Robertson has been a partner in Ernst & Young's consulting practice, and an associate director in its various incarnations of Capgemini Ernst & Young, Capgemini NZ and Hewlett-Packard, where he worked in senior and strategic roles for the last 14 years.
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Yellow Pages Group has today confirmed its near-final board line-up, with one position still to be confirmed. The chairman is James Smith, a 28-year veteran of the US telecommunications and Yellow Pages industries, and board members include group chief executive officer Dudley Enoka, retired Nelson businessman Harry Mortimore.
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Formula Cruisers, a boat building company, has appointed Troy Woods as sales and marketing manager. Troy has senior management experience within the local and international marine industry.
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Tempforce-Workforce, a division of recruitment company Executive Taskforce Group, has appointed Fiona McLeod as candidate manager. McLeod has an extensive background in the recruitment industry, primarily focusing on office support roles, as well as maintaining key corporate accounts.
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Chapman Tripp has welcomed back Jarrod Walker who joins the banking and finance group as a senior solicitor having spent the last seven years abroad. He worked with Clifford Chance and Allen & Overy in their banking and finance teams in Amsterdam and Hong Kong.
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Readingit Corporation, the recent eBook publishing startup, has appointed Luigi Cappel as marketing director and he also takes a position on the board. Cappel is the author of white papers on eBooks, the successful book Unleashing the Road Warrior and is well known as an evangelist of mobile and wireless computing.
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Steve Payne is the new product development manager within the diagnostics team of farm improvement company, LIC. Steve previously worked as a scientist with HortResearch. Simon Mailman is LICs new Protrack support specialist for the Christchurch region. He joins the team with a strong background in both hardware and software development and will be based in a large growth region for Protrack. Garth Stearn is now LICs South Island operations and sales manager. Stearn has spent nine years working with PIC New Zealand (the pig industrys equivalent of LIC) as business development manager. Mark Howes is LICs new SAP programming specialist. Originally from the UK, Mark has previously worked for international door and window manufacturer Roto Frank Group.
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Health sector IT veteran Malcolm Pollock has been appointed establishment director of the National Institute for Health Innovation at The University of Auckland.
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Adam Leslie has joined Variety - The Childrens Charity as its bash operations manager. He was previously event manager for Flight Centre.
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AMP Capital Investors announces the appointment of Andrew Penn as the company's new senior legal counsel. Penn comes from Buddle Findlay where he specialised in commercial property law.
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The Dilworth Trust Board has appointed Hugh Fletcher as a Trustee. Mr Fletcher replaces Sir Wilson Whineray, who retires from the board after 11 years of service. Fletcher is described as having "a wealth of experience at the highest levels of business and education."
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Rosemary Hopcroft has been made an associate of Naylor Lawrence & Associates Limited. Rosemary joined the company in 1996 and is responsible for delivery of the firms financial planning services to clients within the Manawatu area.
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The Vodafone New Zealand Foundation has announced Andrea Midgen as the new Foundation chair and Annette Culpan as Foundation manager. Midgen has been a member of the Foundations board since 2005 and part of the Vodafone team since 1999. Culpan has been a member of the Vodafone team since 2001 in a variety of roles including procurement, project management and communications.
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AIM Proximity, the direct and interactive marketing agency, announced the appointment of Douglas Lin to the position of digital strategist in Wellington. A digital and interactive marketing specialist, Douglas brings over 12 years experience in the NZ and US markets.
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James Rogal has been appointed as an account manager for the direct and interactive team at DraftFCB. Prior to his appointment he worked in direct marketing at Aim Proximity.
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