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Chair
GRETCHEN KIVELL DFIPENZ
Gretchen worked as a chemical engineer in New Zealand and England for 18 years before moving into senior management at UNITEC in Auckland. She is currently Head of Abbey College, a residential college for postgraduate students at the University of Otago.
Gretchen was Chair of the Auckland Branch in 1984 and President of IPENZ in 1998. She has been a Director of Telarc/Accreditation NZ, Worley Consultants and the Land Transport Safety Authority, and was a member of the Council of the Centre for Advanced Engineering.
Gretchen has been a judge for the Engineering Excellence Awards for four Years and currently chairs the panel for Awards recognising People.
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Roly Frost
FIPENZ
Roly is a Director of Beca Infrastructure Ltd, based in Tauranga with a special focus on the Waikato and Bay of Plenty regions.
He started his career with the Ministry of Works and progressed into management positions as the Ministry went through the change process from a government department to initially a State Owned Enterprise and finally to a private consultancy. He has held General Manager positions in the infrastructure field both in the private sector with Beca and the public sector with Transit New Zealand.
Roly continues to be active in IPENZ having held the positions of Branch Chair, President and is currently on the Chartered Professional Engineers Council.
He has various governance roles on project management boards, trusts and Beca Infrastructure Ltd.
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RM (Bob) Hodgson FIPENZ, FIET, SMIEEE
On his retirement from the Massey University School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Bob was made "Professor Emeritus", that is professor for life. In his long career he served on many professional and academic bodies in a range of roles including: Chairman of the New Zealand Council of Engineering Deans (NZCED), member of the IPENZ Standards and Accreditation Board, the IEEE Region 1O Executive, President of the Association of Engineering Education in South and East Asia and the Pacific (AEESEAP), and numerous Washington Accord international panels. His research work in Digital Image processing is well known. He has also led the development of a number of
accredited bachelor of engineering majors in areas of advanced technology.
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Peter Browne FIPENZ
Peter Browne is a professional engineer and self-employed engineering consultant who has spent his career to date in the electricity supply industry in various engineering and management roles. He is a current director of The Lines Company Ltd.
Peter is a past Chairman of IPENZ Wellington Branch and was an ex officio member of the IPENZ Council. He served for three years as Council’s Hon Secretary Treasurer and was appointed by the IPENZ Board to be a trustee of IPENZ Benevolent Fund, the Institution’s former charitable organisation. He retired from this position when this Fund was wound up and its assets were transferred to the Foundation but is looking forward to being a trustee of the Foundation with its larger scope of support functions.
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Neville Jordan CNZM DFIPENZ
Neville graduated in electrical engineering and has an honorary Doctorate from Canterbury University. He founded a telecommunications microwave company, MAS Technology Ltd, in 1975 which grew from start-up to multinational company and achieved a successful IPO on the NASDAQ main board.
In 1988 he founded Endeavour Capital to invest in companies based on science and engineering.
Neville has served on many Australian and New Zealand government committees; plus six years as a director of AgResearch; and three years each on the boards of FRST, the Prime Minister's Growth and Innovation Advisory Board and Antarctic Heritage Trust.
He is Past President of the Royal Society of New Zealand and was awarded UK IEE Kirby Medal for "outstanding eminence and distinction in advanced technology" and has also won the Governor General's Supreme award for Exporting and is a laureate of both the Business Hall of Fame and Hi-Tech Hall of Fame.
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Carol Caldwell FIPENZ
Carol is a practising fire engineer with 30+ years of experience, starting in the United States but has been in New Zealand for close to 20 years and is currently the director of Enlightened Solutions Limited. She a recognised international expert on performance based fire engineering design and is a member of several fire engineering related technical organisations.
Carol was Chair of the IPENZ Canterbury Branch in 1997 and has a passion for women in engineering. She also provides Practice Area assessments in fire engineering for IPENZ. |
