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Professional Private Company Director and Professional Trustee


* As director of a number of client private companies since 1975 trading in the fields of shipping, land transport, property investment, removal and treatment of chemical waste, and the production of bio-diesel from tallow.


* Also appointed by Auckland Regional Holdings Limited (owned by the former Auckland Regional Council) as a director of Sea+City Projects Limited for the approximately $4 billion redevelopment of the “Tank Farm” on Auckland Harbour.

* Professional chairman of the Dilworth Trust
http://www.dilworth.school.nz/dilworth%20(current assets approximately $400 million), and trustee of Melanesian Mission Trust Board (approximately $200 million), and trustee of smaller trusts (on an honorary basis) including the H E Fairey Trust for Disabled Children, the NZSAS Trust for serving and retired SAS members, the Chinese Language Foundation, and the Confucius Institute of New Zealand based at Auckland University.



Appointments – Companies And Trusts


Company/Trust                                                      Position                                                       Start date                  End date

Reef Shipping Company Limited                          Director                                                          1975                                     1994
(Operates cargo trades in the Pacific) 


Dilworth Trust Board                                                  Trustee                                                          1975                                     Present
(Investment portfolio over $400 million                Chairman                                                     1995                                     2000
and operates NZ’s largest                                                                                                                   2008                                    Present
boarding school)


Kristin School                                                                  Board member                                          1975                                       1984
(NZ’s largest co-educational independent                Chairman                                                    1982                                       1984
 school)


Melanesian Mission Trust Board                             Trustee                                                         1988                                       Present
(Investment portfolio of over $200 million)


Clark & Rogers Limited                                                 Director                                                    1990                                       2000
(Largest transport company in Taranaki) 



NZ Advisory Council                                                      Board member                                       1998                                        Present
(Statutory Board associated with MMTB) 



Oil Industries Limited                                                    Director                                                  1999                                         Present
(Property investment company) 



Chemwaste Industries Limited                                   Director                                                   1999                                          2007
(Removal and treatment of chemical wastes) 



Convertech Industries Limited                                  Chairman                                                 1999                                           2005
(Developing commercial use for bio-waste) 



BioDiesel Oils Limited                                                    Chairman                                              2002                                         Present
(Producing bio-diesel from tallow on a
 commercial basis)


ChemRecovery Limited                                                Director                                                   2002                                          2007
(Developing industrial recycling of metals)



H E Fairey Trust for Disabled Children                Trustee                                                       2003                                          Present



Intertech Group (Australia)                                                                      Director                                                      2004                                         Present 
(Developing a new fuel from chemically
 refined coal)


Chinese Language Foundation                                 Chairman                                                   2005                                        Present



NZSAS Trust                                                                   Trustee                                                 2005                                           Present 
(Benevolent Trust for serving and retired
 SAS members) 


Intertech Systems IP Limited (NZ)                      Director                                                        2006                                         Present
(Intellectual property holding company) 



Confucius Institute of New Zealand                     Board member                                          2006                                           Present
(Joint venture between University of Auckland
 and Fudan University of Shanghai)



SEA+CITY Projects Limited                                  Director                                                         2008                                           2010
(Management company for Auckland
 Regional Council, Ports of Auckland and
Auckland City Council to oversee the $4 billion
redevelopment of the “Tank Farm” on Auckland Harbour) 


















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Auckland 0748 
  
NEW ZEALAND