Introduction
The Industry Advisory Board (IAB), chaired by Sue Suckling, has been appointed to oversee and guide Enterprise South Island and ensure it operates in a manner consistent with delivering the aims and objectives agreed with TEC. The IAB meets three times a year, once at each of the three participating universities. The role of the IAB is to:
• Provide broad strategic advice on the direction, balance and relevance of Enterprise South Island’s priorities;
• Provide advice on the effectiveness, relevance and quality of the work undertaken by Enterprise South Island;
• Review and advise on emerging trends and opportunities in a regional, national and global context; and
• Support and promote the aims of ESI
Sue Suckling (Chair)
Sue Suckling, OBE, BTech (Hons), MTech, has held a number of senior management positions during her career and chaired several Boards. She is currently the Chair of the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, NZQA and AgriQuality New Zealand Limited. She has in-depth commercial experience with large and small organisations in both the public and private sectors.
David Band (Deputy Chair)
Dr David Band is an experienced international businessman and has recently returned to New Zealand from Europe. During his time in Europe, Dr Band spent two years as Dean of the Leeds Business School, one of the largest business schools in Europe. He has also spent extensive periods with Korn/Ferry International, PA Consulting Group, and Sibson Consulting. At PA, he was head of the Management Development Practice. His focus for research has been on corporate governance, corporate strategy and human capital management. He is co-author of “Winning Ways through Good Governance” (Macmillan). The book examines a range of corporate governance issues from the investor's perspective.
David's career also encompasses a period as Director of the Advanced Business Programme at the University of Otago and significant experience in corporate consulting and management. David and family now reside in Dunedin.
Richard Garland
Dr Garland has shown outstanding scientific and business leadership in developing a niche fine chemical industry in New Zealand using local expertise, raw materials and capital. In particular, as managing director and major shareholder, he has built New Zealand Pharmaceuticals (NZP) into a successful and rapidly expanding business supplying selected pharmaceuticals to major overseas companies. This locally owned business boosts New Zealand’s exports by over $50 million pa and creates employment for over 100 staff. In late 2005 the private equity investor Direct Capital placed a valuation of around $100 million on the company and then purchased 51% of it as part of a plan to publicly list on the New Zealand share market in 2008.
Jim Mclean
Jim McLean is Chairman of HortResearch and Deputy Chair of the Foundation for Research Science & Technology. He is also a director of RJ Hill Laboratories and Genesis Research and Development Corporation Limited.
Jim was chairman and a director of NZBio’s predecessor Biotenz for the years leading up to the formation of NZBio. Prior to joining Genesis, he was a partner with Ernst & Young.
Jim has a BSc (Hons) degree in physical chemistry from Otago University and an ACA. His early career was in manufacturing and marketing in the tyre industry with Dunlop New Zealand.
Mike Dunbier
Dr Mike Dunbier From 1992 to 2001 Mike was the Chief Executive of the NZ Institute for Crop & Food Research. Prior to this Mike was a research scientist and director at the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Crop Research.
Since 2001 Mike has acted as an independent director and consultant. Current roles include chairing the National Centre for Advanced Bio-Protection Technologies, the governance groups for the two National Institutes of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) Outcome-based Investment projects, and the Research and Innovation Board for the Vegetable Product Groups of Horticulture NZ. He is also a director of the Foundation for Arable Research and the Pastoral Genomics Consortium.
Mike has been a director of a number of other organizations including the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology and the Australian Grains Research and Development Corporation, and as well as Chairman of the Australian company SunPrime Seeds Pty Ltd.
Pramod Khatri
Pramod is Chief Executive and Managing Director of McKechnie Aluminium Solutions Ltd (previously MCK Metals Pacific Ltd) based in New Plymouth. He is a chartered accountant by profession. After finishing his B.Com in accounting and management in 1996 he worked for 6 years with Ernst and Young within NZ and also in Australia and Canada. In 1994 he completed an MBA from Otago University. Since the completion of the MBA he has held a number of senior management roles within the dairying and roading and construction businesses. He has had wide experience in areas of financial management, change management and M&A. He joined McKechnie in 2001 as General Manager Finance and Administration and was involved in reshaping the current McKechnie business to where it is today. This included the divestiture of the brass, copper and the Australian distribution operations of McKechnie and refocusing the business to an aluminium only business. In 2004 he led a management buyout of the aluminium business and became its Chief Executive and Managing Director. McKechnie currently employs around 300 staff and exports approximately half its product offshore.