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* Dr Richard Grant is the new executive director of the Asia New Zealand Foundation, a non profit, public-private sector foundation that aims to promote wider understanding in New Zealand of the countries and peoples of Asia. Grant has spent over 40 years working for the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and Trade in the Pacific, Europe, Australia and Asia. He is a former New Zealand ambassador in Bonn and Paris and a former high commissioner in London and Singapore. He has also represented New Zealand at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and held other senior positions including Deputy Secretary for External Economic and Trade Policy at MFAT. He has resigned from MFAT to take up his new role at the Asia New Zealand Foundation beginning in January this year.
* David Randal has rejoined Buddle Findlay's Wellington litigation team as a legal adviser. Randal specialises in resource management, environmental, conservation, and Maori law. David was a member of Buddle Findlay's litigation team for three years before travelling abroad to work in Paris and London. Most recently David spent over two years practising in the dispute resolution department of Lawrence Graham LLP's London office.
* Terry Moore has been appointed chief executive officer of Southern Cross Hospitals. The role encompasses the strategy, leadership and operational management of the ten Southern Cross not-for-profit hospitals. He will also continue to play a major role in a number of joint venture hospital businesses. Moore has worked for Southern Cross for the past eight years and held the Hospitals chief operating officer position for the last five.
* Hirepool Limited has made two new senior appointments. Andrew Lattimore has been appointed to the position of business relationship manager for the Upper South Island Lattimore has joined Hirepool from the agricultural industry.
Regan Lock has been appointed as business relationship manger for the lower South Island. He was previously an internal sales team leader at Mico Metals NZ.
* Mike Warrington has joined Projects Resources Ltd after a distinguished career with First NZ Capital, Westpac and the ANZ Bank, specialising in fixed interest.
* Anita Stefan has joined Robert Half Finance & Accounting as a consultant in its permanent recruitment division in Auckland. Anita has recently moved to New Zealand from Canada. She previously worked as an international taxation specialist for Ernst & Young in Canada, and later ran her own recruitment consultancy. She has broad experience in finance, accounting, recruitment and marketing.
* Korean car manufacturer Kia Motors has appointed former Honda executive Todd McDonald to head up its operations in New Zealand. McDonald takes up the position of general manager succeeding John Keenan, who saw the company through its first phase of growth under Korean ownership. A 20-year veteran of the motor industry, McDonald has spent much of that time with Honda, including a three-year stint in Japan and was most recent agent (dealer) development manager for Honda New Zealand.
* Toughlove Auckland has appointed Geoff Andrews to a newly created management role. Andrews brings his experience in senior management of a professional membership organisation as well as the tertiary education and health sectors.Toughlove is an organisation providing support and education for parents experiencing unacceptable adolescent behaviour.
* Online advertising sales network APN Digital Media was strengthened further this week with two new appointments - Donna O'Keeffe as group account manager and Thomas Du Chateau as senior account manager.
O'Keefe has been promoted internally, after spending the last year as senior account manager for the network. She was previously an agency account manager for APN publication The New Zealand Herald.
Du Chateau joined the team this week after a year and a half as business account manager for Vodafone where he had a portfolio of more than 200 clients. He previously spent over four years in sales and account management with APN on the print side of the business.
* Harcourts New Zealand has recently made three senior appointments to its Corporate team: Christina Saunderson is Harcourts new technology operations manager, based in Auckland. Recently returned from living and working in the UK and travelling in Europe, Christina was most recently employed as IT materials control installer and trainer by a multi-national IT vendor. Grant Parker has been appointed as Wellington business development manager, focused on supporting Harcourts franchises in Wellington and the lower North Island. Formerly a successful sales consultant, Parker was most recently the general manager of Harcourts Fiji franchise. Toni Skiffington has been appointed as communications manager, based in Auckland. She has worked in newspaper, television and news agency journalism, and as a magazine and website editor. In addition her career has included various internal and external communications roles for large private, Government and not-for-profit organisations in New Zealand and England.
* The New Zealand Association of Accountants Inc (NZAA) trading name New Zealand Association of Certified Public Accountants (NZACPA) has appointed Heather Leaity B. Com, AMZNAA as acting executive director.
* Experienced recruiter John Keesing joins Face 2 Face Recruitment as a senior consultant. He has significant experience in finance and general management himself and also in recruiting for these roles over the past 10 years. John focuses on permanent and executive leasing/contracting roles.