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C. Piet Beukman
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Mike Dewe
Mike Dewe Consulting Ltd
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Dominque Dowding Managing Director Course • Dominique's background is in: Entertainment, Tourism, Hospitality, Sales & Marketing, Technology and Investment in the International and Domestic markets. • She has a successful track record in creating businesses as an entrepreneur and is a Professional Director of a number of public and privately owned companies. She is an advisory
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George Elder Tait Electronics Ltd
George is the Information and Quality Manager and member of the Senior Management Team at Tait Electronics Ltd. He lives in Christchurch , and is married with 2 adult children. George has an MBA from Canterbury University , and CPIM from American Production and Inventory Control Society. Tutored for NZIM on Production Control and Inventory Management for some years, is a periodic lecturer for Canterbury University MBA program and School of Engineering Operations Management papers. He spent 11 years in manufacturing and IT for Firestone Tyre & Rubber Company. Contract MIS Manager for Goodman Group. 8 years for Fact International Ltd (Geac) selling and implementing information systems including 2 years in USA and The Netherlands. George was employed for a time as Manufacturing Operations Manager for Macpac Wilderness Equipment Ltd, implementing JIT and lean production techniques. His interests include learning, running, outdoor activities, technology and motorcycling.
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Greg Evans Course Greg began his business qualification at the Queensland University of Technoogy grading with a Bachelor of Business degree and post-graduate scholarship (recipient of the Marketing Trust Fund prize). He also completed a graduate Dipolma in Exporting from the Australian Institute of Export. At the age of 20 he headed to the USA to undertake a Masters of Business Administration at the California State University where he graduated on the "Dean's List of Outstanding Scholars" with a double major in Marketing and International Business. He began his career with PepsiCo in 1985 working in finance at the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Group in Los Angeles and then returning to Australia based at the Pepsi-Cola International head office. In the late 1980's he moved to New Zealand for the launch of Pepsi and 7up working in a number of Franchise and Sales management positions. In 1990 joined Lion Nathan when they acquired the Bond Brewing group in Australia initially as Brand Manager for XXXX in Queensland and later heading to Melbourne as Marketing Director for Toohey's and Hahn in the southern states. In 1995 he moved into retail with Coles Myers as General Manager of Sales and Marketing at the fast food company Red Rooster, before joining Heinz Wattie's Australasia and returning to New Zealand in 1999. Greg's role as Managing Director of Fozen Foods business unit gave him the opportunity to lead the Wattie'sfrozen business in New Zealand, Australia and internationally operating from both the Auckand and Melbourne offices. He is currently a Director and partner in a new business that give people the opportunity to drive race cars at race circuits called the "V8RACE Experience".
David Gardiner Course David has been a contract lecturer with the University of Canterbury since 2006 and has taught the mathematics refresher course for MBA students, quantitative methods for MBA, and operations management for MEM. David is a contract senior lecturer in operations management and quantitative analysis at the University of Auckland Business School. He has taught at the undergraduate level and at the postgraduate level for 18 years on subjects including operations strategy, forecasting and demand management, capacity planning and yield management, sales and operations planning, process and product design, process improvement, service design, constraint-based scheduling, inventory systems, enterprise resource planning, six sigma quality, total quality management, lean thinking, and project management. Now, all of his teaching at the University of Auckland is for the Graduate School of Enterprise in their Diploma of Business Administration and Master of Business Administration. He is a director of Gardiner Consulting Group, a management consulting company specialising in operations management and based in Christchurch . Apart from the University of Auckland and the University of Canterbury , recent clients include Carter Holt Harvey Packaging, Pacific Steel, Fletcher Challenge Steel Products, Jenkin Timber Limited, Mitre 10 and Rinnai New Zealand Limited. He regularly facilitates courses and seminars for the New Zealand Manufacturers and Exporters Association (NZMEA). Formal qualifications include a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Canterbury , and a post-graduate Diploma in Business and Industrial Administration from the University of Auckland . He is recognised by APICS, the Association for Operations Management, as Certified at the Fellow level in Production and Inventory Management (CFPIM). David is a founder member, past National President, and past Education Director of NZPICS (New Zealand Production and Inventory Control Society). He is a professional member of the New Zealand Computer Society (MNZCS), a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and a member of the European Operations Management Association (EurOMA). His practical experience in distribution and manufacturing systems was developed during his career as a manufacturing industry business consultant for IBM. In this senior role, David developed many distribution and manufacturing solutions for companies throughout New Zealand , Australia and South-East Asia .
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Stephen Hickson Room 522
Course Stephen is passionate about teaching and economics. He has an M.A.(hons), a Teaching Diploma (Secondary) and a Post Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Teaching. Prior to joining UC on a full time basis in 2002, Stephen worked for Statistics New Zealand. During that time he worked on the national accounts, survey design and as the National Manager for the 2001 Census Field Operation. He indulges in some economics education research when time allows.
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Beverley Lord
Room 620, Level 6, Commerce Building
Course Associate Professor Beverley Lord teaches management accounting on the MEM programme. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Accounting and Information Systems, and has taught accountancy (particularly management accounting) at undergraduate and post-graduate level at the University of Canterbury since 1989. She also teaches qualitative research methods at post-graduate level and publishes research in a number of accounting-related areas. Her particular research interest relates to the usage of and innovations in management accounting, particularly in small businesses. Bev is involved at committee level with the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants, and writes materials for and marks examinations in professional accounting schools in New Zealand and Hong Kong.
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Tom Matthews
Phone: 942 2692
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Tony Mortensen
• B.Com (Honours) - Majors in accounting and finance Course My name is Tony Mortensen. I currently lecture in accounting for the MBA and MEM programmes and various undergraduate courses at the University of Canterbury . I am also involved in contracting activities including the Professional Accounting School for the Institute of Chartered Accountants and various local companies. Prior to my current role(s) I was the Canterbury Branch Manager for ALSCO Limited, an American owned multinational industrial textile and washroom service company, which in 2002 acquired NCO Limited, a company of which I was Financial Controller. I started my professional career as a Taxation Consultant with the accounting firm KPMG, firstly at the Auckland branch and later transferring to the Christchurch office. My current research interests include creative and aggressive reporting behaviours, accounting fraud and the measurement of meaning in accounting. |
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Alastair Ridgway
Alastair qualified as a Chartered Accountant in South Africa in the 1980s where he worked firstly with Price Waterhouse Coopers and then AECI limited. Prior to leaving South Africa he was the Finance Director at one of the AECI subsidiaries. He came to New Zealand 11 years ago with his wife and 3 children. He joined Tait Electronics in 1999 where he is currently employed as Financial Controller. His responsibilities include tax, treasury, banking, foreign exchange, investment analysis, risk management and the Tait Electronics accounts. He has been a part-time lecturer of Managerial Finance at the University of Canterbury MBA course for a number of years and has recently lectured Finance on the MEM course. Alastair is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in New Zealand and a Member of the Institute of Finance Professionals . During his spare time coaches football, reads a lot and is a member of St. Christophers Anglican Church.
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Dave Shearer SARINZ
Course David Shearer is General Manager of the Search and Rescue Institute New Zealand (SARINZ). SARINZ is non-for-profit organisation owned by SARINZ Trust that designs, delivers and exports training programmes and undertakes R&D in the area of Search and Rescue. SARINZ works with clients including NZ Defence Force, NZ Police, International Antarctica Divisions (USA, Aust, NZ), DOC and SAR volunteers. David has a thorough grounding in business, having been employed in senior management positions within the education services sector since 1994. In 2000 he founded Synergy Education a specialist education consultancy whose clients include government agencies, universities, PTEs, schools and not-for-profit organisations. David specialises in business and education management and has conducted over 150 training workshops on various management topics. He is a contracted NZTE and Business Increase Group advisor and mentors organisations throughout NZ and Australia on marketing and strategy design - along with implementing business systems tailored to the education, pharmacy and not-for-profit sectors. David is based in Christchurch and is married with three children and has an M.B.A. from the University of Canterbury as well as a Bachelor of Education (University of Canterbury) and Diploma of Teaching (Christchurch College of Education). He is a former Board Member of University of Canterbury (MBA), a current Member of NZIM and the Academic Advisory Board for TPP, and a Trustee of Elmwood School. |
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Robert Snoep
Robert Snoep began his training and career as an Engineer obtaining a Bachelors degree in Chemical and Process Engineering and then working as a real Engineer on one of the old ‘Think Big' petrochemical plants. Robert went back to University to complete a Masters degree in Engineering Management (MEM) in 1996, and then worked in technical management roles in the concrete, nutraceuticals and wine industries. In 2001 Robert turned to the world of intellectual property (IP) law and began a career as a Patent Attorney progressing to being a Partner in his previous firm and has since founded his own patent attorney firm CreateIP. Robert's practice is focussed on helping New Zealand companies protect and prosper from their ideas in New Zealand and overseas. Key companies Robert has worked with include Airways Corporation, AgResearch, Comvita, Bomac Laboratories, Keratec, Donaghys, Grasslanz and Hubco Automotive, Phil & Teds and Mountain Buggy. Robert is a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Patent Attorneys, Registered Patent Attorney in NZ and Australia , member of the Royal Society and ex-Trustee and member of the Canterbury and Nelson Nutraceuticals Cluster. Robert is also an Adjunct Fellow and guest lecturer of the Master of Engineering Management programme teaching IP law since 2002.
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Ben Tothill Ben Tothill Duncan Cotterill
PO Box 5, Level 9, Clarendon Tower Course
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Mike Watson Course Mike is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the New Zealand Business Excellence Foundation. The Foundation is recognised as the national leader in developing, promoting and recognising organisational excellence and works with many of the largest Corporates in NZ providing business assessment and consulting services that support their performance improvement efforts. Previously the Group Strategic Development manager for the Royal & SunAlliance Insurance Group, Mike has extensive consulting experience in Organisational assessment, Strategic & Operational Planning, Business Process Re-engineering, Performance Management, Customer Relationship Management and Project Management. Mike is a CEO mentor and has a Post Graduate Diploma in Quality Management a Diploma in Business Excellence and a Diploma in Financial Services. Mike is a Fellow of the NZ Institute of Management and a Senior Associate of the Australian & NZ Institute of Insurance and Finance.
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Greg Evans V8RACE Experience Pty Ltd
Gardiner Consulting Group
Chief Executive