Movers & Shakers

Alison Pedersen has been appointed director of marketing and innovation at Goodman Fielder New Zealand. She has been with the company for six years.

Glenn Baird joins as supply chain director. He was last with Nestle. Helen Sedcole has become human resources director. She has spent the past four years in senior HR roles at Carter Holt Harvey.

Mark Mabin has returned from almost 20 years of overseas research and academic posts to join the Christchurch office of engineering and environmental management professional services company URS New Zealand.

Also returning, after 18 years overseas, is water resources engineer Warren Ladbrook.

A new appointment is environmental scientist Chris Evans, who has spent three years working on groundwater and resource consenting projects with Environment Canterbury.

Hotel du Vin has new owners - Edward and Barbara Aster, of Oregon - and several new faces have joined the management team.

Graham Stenberg has been made director of export sales and marketing, having previously worked for Federal Geo as as marketing and brands manager.

Jenny Vazey, formerly with Covington Group and Spencer on Byron, has been appointed director of conferencing.

Jane Crawford is the new finance manager. She has previously worked for the Self Care Group and Ernst & Young.

Long-time staffer Murdock Ormsby is the new head chef.

Wendy Voegelin is director of marketing.

Thomas Scovell has been appointed vice-president of marketing at DigitalCandle, based in Bellevue, Washington, and will be opening a New Zealand office.

Jeremy Hubbard has joined the Museum of Transport and Technology as the new director, taking over from John Syme. He is a former Rainbow Corporation (Rainbow's End) staff member and spent 13 years with Shell New Zealand.

Hans Frauenlob has taken the new position of chief information officer for Trade New Zealand. He is a former employee of Certus Consulting and Cardinal Banking Technologies.

The new sector team manager is Adrian Dixon, formerly a Trade NZ technology account manager.

Dannevirke-based Mavis Mullins, executive director of Paewai Mullins Shearing, has been appointed chairwoman of Te Huarahi Tika Trust, previously known as the Maori Spectrum Trust. She succeeds founding chairman Bill Osborne, who has been appointed chairman of the trust's commercial arm, Hautaki.

Brett Mosheim is the new director and Paul Rogers operations manager of Special Operations Worldwide, providers of specialist VIP protection and risk management services.

The Rev Andrew Bell, formerly senior chaplain at St Kentigern College, has exchanged coaching schoolboy rugby and chapel services for grappling with world issues in his new role as global mission secretary for the Presbyterian Church.

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