John
is Executive Director of Ignition Partner Ltd; a company he
and a partner established in 2002 to advise companies on strategies
for high growth including technology, IP, structure and capital.
He started his career as a chemical engineer and progressed
into commercial operations and then into business and venture
capital. John spent several years in company development,
operations management and senior executive roles in listed
corporates. He is a Senior Fellow at Waikato University and
was President of IPENZ in 2001. John is looking forward to
building on the hard work of the inaugural Trustees and leading
the Foundation into its next phase of development.
Warwick
Bishop
FIPENZ
Warwick is a former Chief Executive of IPENZ - retiring in 2000. He is currently the part-time Executive Officer to the Chartered Professional Engineers Council. Prior to joining IPENZ he was the CEO of the NZ Meat Producers Board and before that Works and Development Services Corp Ltd. An electrical engineer by training he held senior management positions, including Chief Executive roles, with the AWA Group in both Australia and New Zealand. Active in Rotary he has served as President of his Nelson Club. In 2002 he led a general study exchange team of five young professionals to Japan for a month. He manages five websites and helps his wife with their Boutique Bed & Breakfast business in Nelson.
Gretchen Kivell BE (Hons), MBA
Gretchen Kivell worked as a chemical engineer in New Zealand and Britain before moving into the management of education and then to her current position as Head of Toroa International House, a residential college of the University of Otago.
Gretchen was chair of the Auckland Branch of IPENZ in 1984 and President of IPENZ in 1998. She has been a director of Telarc (as it morphed into International Accreditation), Worley Consultants, and the Land Transport Safety Authority, and on the Council of the Centre for Advanced Engineering.
RM (Bob) Hodgson FIPENZ, FIET, FNZCS
Bob is Professor of Information Engineering and Director of the Massey University School of Engineering and Technology. He is currently the Chairman of the New Zealand Council of Engineering Deans (NZCED), a Member of the IPENZ Standards and Accreditation Board, the IEEE Region IO Executive and is the current President of the Association of Engineering Education in South and East Asia and the Pacific (AEESEAP). He has led the development of a number of engineering majors and is well known for his pioneering work in digital image processing systems.
Dennis
Chapman FIPENZ
Dennis
Chapman, Technical Director with Enatel Ltd, Christchurch,
is an outstanding example of an engineer who based a company
on his own product developments and grew that company quickly
to substantial scale. He has invested huge amounts of time
and money in working with schools, and also travelling to
meet Government officials driven by the goal of improving
technology education for young New Zealanders. His efforts
in no small way contributed to technology education becoming
established in our school system.
Steve
Gentry
DFIPENZ
Steve is a company director and retired consulting engineer. He was New Zealand's first and only President of the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC) - the international body representing the consulting engineering community. Steve has been on the boards of Energy Direct, ECNZ, Meridian Energy and WhisperTech, and is currently chair of Building Research and a director of BRANZ Ltd. He is also a member of the Chartered Professional Engineers Council.
