Capital Investment Committee members
Capital Investment Committee members:
Evan Davies (Chair)
Evan Davies is Managing Director of Todd Property Group Limited, a subsidiary of Todd Capital Group. Todd Property Group is a large scale, broad based property company with two notable residential developments in Auckland - Stonefields, St Johns and Long Bay.
From 1996 until 2007 Evan was the founding Managing Director of gaming and entertainment company, SKYCITY Entertainment Group Limited. While at SKYCITY Evan oversaw the purchase, design and development of several casinos in New Zealand and Australia including Auckland's Sky Tower and associated SKYCITY Casino complex.
A qualified planner, Evan has wide spread interests in property development, city planning and urban issues as well as other business interests in farming and viticulture. Evan sits on the board of two substantial charitable trusts.
Sally Webb
Sally Webb has a public health nurse background and was a member of Minister of Health's Ministerial Review Group that reported in July 2009. She has extensive experience in governance and a broad health sector knowledge. Sally was a former member of the Midland Regional Health Authority Board, the Health Research Council, the Health Funding Authority, and was Interim CEO of the Health Funding Authority. She is currently Chair of the new Eastern Bay Regional Primary Health Organisation. She brings perspective from nursing, management, governance and community health care roles.
Dr Margaret Wilsher
Dr Margaret Wilsher, MD, FRACP, is the CMO at Auckland District Health Board and a respiratory physician working both in public and private sectors. She is a graduate of the University of Otago, with postgraduate training at Green Lane Hospital and then research and further clinical training at the National Heart and Lung Institute and Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK.
Dr Wilsher continues work as a clinical leader in the public sector with an active clinical and research practice, and is a clinical teacher for the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland. Outside of the DHB, she has been a Council member and examiner for the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, President of the Auckland MedicoLegal Society and served on a number of other professional committees.
Professor Des Gorman (ex officio)
Des Gorman is a Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean in the University of Auckland's Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences. He's highly experienced in health workforce issues and in the field of training medical professionals.
He was a Commissioner on the Ministry of Health's Commission on Resident Medical Officers and was also the Chairman of the Minister of Health's Taskforce that reviewed the funding of the training of the New Zealand health workforce in 2009.
Subsequently he has been appointed as the Executive Chairman of Health Workforce New Zealand and as a member of the National Health Board.
Dr Murray Milner (ex officio)
Dr Murray Milner spent most of his 38 years in the ICT industry in Telecom New Zealand, rising to become the Chief Technology Officer for Telecom. Dr Milner championed the transformation of the New Zealand Telecoms environment into a high performance IP network offering leading edge services throughout the country.
He now runs a busy consulting practice in New Zealand and works extensively with central government, local government and enterprises on ICT strategy and infrastructure development. He has been advising on the Connected Health program for over three years.
He is also currently Acting Chair of the National Health IT Board and through this position is keen to help achieve substantial improvements in ICT capability to the benefit of health care within New Zealand.
He is a Fellow of IPENZ, an active member of IET and IEEE and is on the editorial panel for the Telecommunications Journal of Australia.
Jan Dawson
Ms Jan Dawson is the Chair and Chief Executive of KPMG New Zealand and has over 30 years’ audit experience in New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Canada. She is the lead relationship partner for a number of KPMG’s significant New Zealand issuer clients and her work encompasses a wide range of services including accounting advice, due diligence and risk, transactions, governance and litigation support.
Ms Dawson, holds a BCom from the University of Auckland, is President of Yachting New Zealand, Chair of the Audit Committee of the Internal Sailing Federation and is a member of the Massey University Auckland Regional Advisory Board.
Paul Carpinter
Mr Paul Carpinter is a well known figure in New Zealand's public sector with a career spanning nearly 40 years. His roles have included Economic Adviser (in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet) to Prime Ministers Lange and Bolger, Deputy Secretary of The Treasury, Assistant Commissioner State Services Commission and Chief Executive of Ministry of Economic Development (MED).
As the CEO of MED he was instrumental in leading the government's economic development agency responsible for policy in economic development, telecommunications, energy, consumer affairs, tourism and commercial law.
Mr Carpinter is presently an independent consultant to both the private and public sectors. He holds a M.Com (Hons) and B.Sc. (Canterbury University), a Dip Accy and was awarded a QSO in the 2001 New Year's Honours.
