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Our Board Members
Our Board is made up of 4 member elected Directors and up to 4 appointed Directors. Each year, two Board Directors step down. Nominations are sought annually, and members vote for the member elected Directors. The results are announced at our Annual General Meeting in October. The member elected Directors can then appoint up to four additional appointed Directors, as per clause 8.2(b) of our new Constitution
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Our current Directors were appointed at the Annual General Meeting on Thursday 24 October 2024.
Connect Consultancy
Erin Black
Erin is the Managing Director at Connect Consultancy. Connect is a leading management consultancy company, specialising in providing strategic solutions to help businesses sustainably thrive.
Erin is also a member of the Australia New Zealand Leadership Forum and Institute of Directors NZ. As a member of the Australia New Zealand Leadership Forum, Erin brings cross-sectoral and trans-national insights. Erin was recognised as 'Professional Woman of the Year' by the National Association of Women in Construction NZ in 2019, for her services to the sector and community. She was also honoured to join the NAWIC Excellence Award’s Judging Panel in 2024.
A certified Prince2 Agile Practitioner and double degree graduate, Erin holds Bachelors of Commerce (Management) and Arts (Psychology) from the Universities of Canterbury and Otago respectively. Her background in market research and analysis is the foundation for the inquiring mind, ability to make decisions based on evidence, and challenge that Erin brings to the board table. As the current Board’s longest serving member, Erin also brings a wealth of institutional knowledge and insight to this role.
Orion New Zealand LtdPaul Deavoll
Paul has been an elected board member of Business Canterbury since 2019, including Board Chairman.
For Orion NZ Ltd, Paul's team is responsible external relationships including communications, stakeholder and customer relationships, internal engagement and Orion’s sustainability strategy and actions.
Drive Accounting Ltd.
Hayley Hobson
Hayley has attended monthly board meetings, delivered financial results, and provided strategic advice to clients through her role at Drive Accounting.
As GM Finance of Cardrona Distillery, she presented to the board on a monthly basis.
2BConnected
Grant Walker
Grant is CEO and Founder of 2BConnected, a call centre provider that helps businesses with their phone-based sales and customer service needs.
Being surrounded by and bought up in a family of small business owners, running and managing businesses is in Grant's blood. Throughout his career, he has successfully led and developed sales, marketing and customer service teams in call centre operations.
Grant chose Christchurch to set up business because he feels it is a great place to source exceptional talent and community has an innovative and resilient nature which allows businesses to grow and thrive.
Grant offers a unique and proactive approach to business, often viewed as someone who thinks differently, he is very comfortable taking and voicing a view which may differ from the norm, but he respectfully stands up for what I believe is the best solution.
He is energetic, passionate, determined and extremely hard working, with a drive to see all businesses grow and develop further.
Vortex Engineering Ltd
Glenn Hansen
Aside from his current role at Vortex, Glenn's 40-year career has included experience in a wide range of business categories and employment roles.
Previously employed in horticultural production and production management roles, Glenn then worked many years as an accountant in public practice, working with many business owners in across industries providing advice and encouragement, and solving the myriad of problems they faced.
More recently Glenn has with start-ups in software and IoT, before moving to an engineering & manufacturing group of companies spanning the Tasman and selling globally.
In addition, and allowing Glenn to step into members shoes, he has a keen interest in economics and economic development. This expressed itself in work with the manufacturing sector nationally, and also in thinking with respect to the role at Business Canterbury encouraging continuous improvement.
