 | Dr Marcus Blosch, Managing Vice President in the agenda management group of Gartner Research
Marcus Blosch sets and manages the research agenda for Gartner’s 700 analysts worldwide, providing them with the tools and processes needed to prioritise and manage research. Before joining Gartner in 2000, Dr Blosch worked at DHL’s global headquarters driving change programmes as part of its strategy to create a global logistics business.
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 | Brian Bowman, Advisor, Intelligent Business Research Services
Brian Bowman has more than 30 years experience as a CIO in Australian organisations. Before joining IBRS, he was the CIO at Leighton Contractors, a division of Leighton Holdings. He specialises in providing CIOs with assistance in business case development, policies and procedures and IT strategic planning advice. His coverage areas include wide area networking, VOIP, knowledge management and ITIL.
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 | Dr Margo Buchanan-Oliver
Associate professor and co-director, Centre of Digital Enterprise, University of Auckland
Margo Buchanan-Oliver’s primary research centres on the user experience in digitally-mediated environments, and the deployment of branding and semiotics in marketing communications. Her corporate experience is as a multi-national company director in the communications sector, independent company director of listed companies and SOEs and as a trustee of economic development and research funding bodies. |
 | Jon Dunn, CIO, Hi Fert
Hi Fert is the second largest fertiliser distributor in the Asia Pacific region. In his role at Hi Fert, John Dunn established the programme and architecture for IT delivery following the department’s inception in January 2006. He is an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and an international member of the Harvard Business Review’s Advisory Council. |
 | Stephen Inglis, General Manager, Marketing and Business Development, Ericsson Communications
Steve has been in the telecommunications industry for over 20 years and with Ericsson since 1991.
Today, as part of a larger Australasian team, Steve is responsible for Marketing and Business Development activities in New Zealand. Ericsson is now the leading provider of 3G Mobile Australasia and is a leading provider of broadband access, digital microwave radio and optical transmission.
He is a past president of the New Zealand Wireless & Broadband Forum. Steve holds a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Canterbury and a Diploma of Business Studies from Massey.
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 | Angus MacDonald,
Chief Technologist, Sun Microsystems, Australia and New Zealand
Angus MacDonald has more than 30-years IT experience as an end-user, as an application developer and in the vendor environment. Sustainable IT is one of his passions, where he focuses on the benefits companies can reap, both economic and intangible, by moving toward a more sustainable IT environment, rather than the scientific debate around global warming.
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 | Jon Macdonald, CEO, Trade Me
Jon MacDonald joined Trade Me in 2003 as its Chief Technology Officer and earlier this year was promoted to the role of CEO. Prior to Trade Me, Jon worked in London for HSBC Investment Bank and for Deloitte Consulting in Wellington.
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 | Andre Mendes, Global CIO, The Special Olympics
Andre Mendes is the chief information officer for Special Olympics, with responsibility for all strategic and operational aspects of the global organisation’s IT infrastructure. This includes the global and regional websites, all applications and the Special Olympics Knowledge Management System. Prior to this, Mendes was CIO of Public Broadcasting Services.
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 | Laurence Millar, NZ Government CIO
Laurence Millar was deputy commissioner, information and communications technology, at the State Services Commission, when he was appointed to the newly-created post of New Zealand Government CIO in March this year. He began his ICT career in England, with ANZ and General Electric, and subsequently took on a range of strategic consulting and programme management work for government agencies and the private sector.
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 | Matthew Nasrabadi, Head, Technology Operations, Vodafone Australia
Matthew has established a record of successful project implementations, from his first design of the Signature recognition system for National Australia Bank to Australia’s first exported Paperless picking system. He has held a number of senior roles in Vodafone, where he is currently the lead strategy and planning in OSS for Australia, and is the Asia-Pacific representative in the global steering committee for network and service management. He is also a non-executive member of the Board of Directors of the Australian Institute of Higher Education and a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. |
 | Gavin Ng, Manager, BNZ Capital Technical Services
Gavin Ng heads the BNZ Capital IT Infrastructure team that supports 230 users, including 80 traders, in Wellington Auckland and Christchurch. He has more than 15 years experience in treasury and wholesale financial-market technology environments. He has worked at Development Finance Corporation, Trust Bank, Westpac and Bank of New Zealand, supporting and developing IT applications and infrastructure. |
 | John Peebles – Managing Director, John Peebles Associates
John Peebles has been ranked by BusinessWeek as one of the world’s most influential headhunters for 2008. His Auckland-based firm focuses on recruitment of senior management and board members. He has more than 30-years experience in executive search consulting, including being director, executive search group, at Sheffield Consulting Group.
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 | Chris Pope – Director, The Valde Group
Chris Pope is an experienced programme manager with more than 11 years in ICT management and consulting. He has managed enterprise-wide programmes and streamlined business processes in the US and New Zealand across healthcare, internet, local government and other industries. In 2005 he founded The Valde Group, combining project management expertise and business leadership experience with a pragmatic approach to making organisations more successful.
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 | Ron van de Riet, CIO, Kiwibank
Ron van de Riet has more than 20 years experience in the financial sector of ICT. For the past six years he has led the ICT and business implementation for Kiwibank, a subsidiary of NZ Post, and one of this country’s fastest growing companies. Before this, he was head of information technology at BNZ Finance.
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 | Darryl Warren, CIO, Lion Nathan
Darryl Warren is the CIO of Lion Nathan, the Australasian alcoholic beverages company that ranked number 38 in the MIS100 2008 report on the top ICT-using organisations in New Zealand. Prior to moving to Sydney, Warren was IT director of Lion Nathan based in Auckland. |