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Phillip Meyer - Chair
Phillip Meyer is an experienced investment banker and company director. He is Chairman of Australian Financial Services Group, New Zealand Institute of Management Inc, and its Central Board, Angel HQ, Deputy Chairman of the Wellington Zoo Trust, Wellington Branch Committee of the Institute of Directors, a Director of Southern Cross Healthcare Group and subsidiaries, Kordia Group Limited, Young Enterprise Trust, a member of the Disciplinary Tribunal of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of NZ, New Zealand Markets Disciplinary Tribunal, National Councillor of the Institute of Directors. He is also Crown Monitor of the Whanganui District Health Board. He has a number of other commercial business interests in Australia and New Zealand. He was financial adviser for the Sydney Olympics 2000 Bid and advised Australian State Governments on the growth of economic development arising out of the Olympics. Mr Meyer is an Accredited Fellow of the Institute of Directors, Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, the New Zealand Institute of Management and Finsia.
Lynda Carroll Lynda has over twenty years experience in Senior Management and Business Development roles including General Manager Human Resources; Corporate Services Manager; and Managing Consultant, Australasia for a world-wide strategic human resource company. For the past twelve years she has been running her own company assisting organisations to achieve long term, sustainable business success focusing on strategy, systems and people. Her current governance experience includes being a Board member of the New Zealand Institute of Management and a Management Committee Member for Nota Bene, a Wellington based choir. Previously Lynda has been on School Board Trustees and Chairperson of an Early Childhood Centre.
She is a graduate of Victoria University and a member of the Institute of Directors; the Institute of Public Administration of New Zealand (IPANZ); and the Human Resource Institute of New Zealand.
Merran Cooke Merran has played principal oboe with the Vector Wellington Orchestra since 1999. Prior to that she studied oboe at Victoria University with Ronald Webb and completed post-graduate studies in Cologne with Christian Schneider. Merran performed extensively with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and New Zealand Chamber Orchestra before completing a law degree. Merran worked initially in private practice in civil litigation until gaining her current position as an Assistant Crown Counsel at Crown Law.
Stephen Fogarty Stephen Fogarty is a qualified Chartered Accountant who has worked in New Zealand and overseas, including Hong Kong, Bermuda and London specialising in the audit of banks, insurance companies and financial institutions. He returned to New Zealand to join the Audit Office. Stephen has a long standing interest in the arts and has provided the Vector Wellington Orchestra with accounting support since the mid 1990s. He previously served on the Board for several years during the 1990s.
Elizabeth Kerr Elizabeth Kerr has had a long career in music and the arts as teacher, lecturer, arts manager and board member. In 1989, after thirteen years teaching at Victoria University in the School of Music, she left her position as Senior Lecturer to become Manager of Music programmes at the Q E 2 Arts Council of New Zealand. Following this she was Manager of Concert FM, Chief Executive of Relationship Services and Chief Executive of NZ Historic Places Trust before returning to the Arts Council, (then known as Creative New Zealand), as Chief Executive, a position she held from 2000 till 2006. She is currently managing the New Zealand String Quartet.
Governance roles have included serving on the boards of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, the Centre for New Zealand Music (SOUNZ), the New Zealand String Quartet Trust, the Antarctic Heritage Council, the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA) and the Douglas Lilburn Studio Trust. She was a board member of the Wellington Sinfonia, now the Vector Wellington Orchestra, from 1996-98 and returned to the board of the Orchestra in 2009. Anna Kominik Anna is a founding partner of Ideas Shop Ltd, providing strategic communications advice to clients in the public, private sectors and not-for-profit sectors. She has previously held senior communications roles in the public and private sectors, including press secretary to two New Zealand Prime Ministers, media relations support to the Commonwealth Secretary General, and Head of Sponsorship at Telecom New Zealand. Anna’s musical background is in the violin. She was a member of the Wellington Youth Orchestra, the New Zealand Youth Orchestra and the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra. She has a Masters degree from the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, Chicago.
James Young James Young is a partner in the legal firm Gillespie Young Watson. He is a trustee of the Turnovsky Endowment Trust and a member of the New Zealand Opera Foundation having served for some years as a trustee of National Opera of Wellington prior to its merger with NBR NZ Opera. His musical background is in choral music and the pipe organ. He studied under Maxwell Fernie and served for three years as director of music at St Mary of the Angels Church Wellington.
Matthew Ross Matthew is Concertmaster of the Vector Wellington Orchestra and is a Senior Advisor at the State Services Commission. He sits on the board as one of the two elected player board members. Read more about Matthew here.
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