Rebecca Keoghan has contributed to the Westland region for the past 10 years. Photo/File
Rebecca Keoghan has contributed to the Westland region for the past 10 years. Photo/File
Rebecca Keoghan MNZM For services to business, particularly the dairy industry
Rebecca Keoghan has contributed to the Westland region for the past 10 years.
In addition to her role as co-director of a 250 cow, 300 hectare farm Mrs Keoghan was Operations Manager of Westport's Holcim Cement Ltd, controlling the qualityproduction of 500,000 tonnes of clinker and 550,000 tonnes of cement per annum.
She led the growth of a 'zero harm' culture for her staff at Holcim.
Currently as Business Manager of Landcorp Farming Ltd she is responsible for the strategic development and management of five large dairy farms in the region, as well as a dairy support farm and a machinery syndicate spanning the Cape Foulwind and Grey Valley areas.
She is a director of Westland Milk Products Ltd and of Buller Holdings, which has responsibility for Buller District Council's commercial assets.
She was formerly Area President of the Royal New Zealand Plunket Society's West Coast Board.
She was a member of the Northern South Island committee of OSPRI, the organisation managing the National Animal Identification and Tracing programme to eliminate bovine tuberculosis from New Zealand.
Mrs Keoghan was previously Team Leader and is currently a judge for the Dairy Manager of the Year Award programme for the Dairy Industry Awards.
She was the Dairy Women's Network Dairy Woman of the Year in 2016.
