NZICT Group Grows In Strength, Appoints New Board
NZICT Group is pleased to announce that a new board has been elected following its 2nd Annual General Meeting at the end
of last week.
New NZICT board members include Kordia CEO Geoff Hunt, Microsoft NZ Managing Director Paul Muckleston, Richard Laverty
who is the Director of creative, services and information and communication technology at NZ Trade and Enterprise,
Fronde CEO Ian Clarke and SwayTech Director Bob Pinchin.
The new board members join those board members who were re-elected to the board for a second term: Cisco NZ Country
Manager Geoff Lawrie, IBM Asia Pacific senior manager Daryl French, Gen-i Australasia CEO Chris Quin, Simpl CEO Bennett
Medary and Kinetics Group CEO Andrew Hunt.
The NZICT board also has two Independent Board Representatives: Telecommunications Carriers’ Forum CEO David Stone and
Westpac General Manager of Customer and Technology Services David Boyes.
A new Chair will be appointed at the first meeting of the Board in August 2010. NZICT Board members represent the
diversity of our membership and will assist with the industry’s growth and economic development plans, both in terms of
productivity improvements in the domestic economy and growth in export revenues, says NZICT CEO Brett O’Riley.
NZICT membership is nearing 100 New Zealand technology firms and related organisations with collective revenue of more
than $10 billion and staff of around 10,000.
With exports of around $5 billion, the technology industry has become the third largest export segment market in New
Zealand.
“We have an exciting range of programmes in prospect including the Digital Technology Symposium, Small Business
Competition, Smartstreet Fibre Pilot, China ICT Trade Mission, and the Rutherford Hi-Tech Forum, the latter in
conjunction with RWC 2011,” says O’Riley.
“We will continue to drive awareness of what technology can do for businesses and the community.”
ENDS