Owen Rutherford Lloyd is a seasoned leader in governance and management and is highly qualified within the sector our organisation operates in which is Youth Support Services.

He has a military career spanning twenty eight years serving in the NZ Army and currently serves as the Portfolio Manager for Mental Health – Funding and Planning at Tairawhiti District Health helping to administer and manage $20 Million dollars of Mental health and addictions contracts for the Tairawhiti Region. Prior to this role he was Cultural Advisor to Infant, child and adolescent mental health service (ICAMHS) providing cultural input of the Maori world view and support to clinical and management staff of the ICAMH service at Hauora Tairawhiti (Tairawhiti Hospital). He has over twenty - five years contract negotiation and management experience and currently leads treaty settlement negotiations for his tribal affiliations. He is chairperson for The Tairawhiti Maori Council and member of Negotiator Treaty Claims – (Ngā Ariki Kaipūtahi Iwi) Ngā Ariki Kaipūtahi Tribunal Claims Committee (chair) 1993 - Present. Ngati Porou Whanui Forest Board of Directors. Tairawhiti District Maori Council, Minister of Maori affairs Joint Advisory Groups (Maori Wardens Project), Tairawhiti Maori Wardens Strategic Leadership Group, Tairawhiti Police Advisory Group (Te Aitanga a Mahaki Representative) and Tairawhiti Voyaging Trust (Waka Build.

Previous memberships include;

NZ Council of Social Services (Chair), Te Aitanga a Mahaki Trust (trustee), Gisborne Council of Social Services Executive,

Whatatutu Primary School BOT (Chair), Maori Cultural Advisor, NZ Guidelines Group Suicide Prevention Project, Managaotane Trust (Chair), Te Kupenga Trust (Chair), Tairawhiti Youth Offending Teams, Regional Leadership Group Whanau ora (Vice Chair), Chair Truancy Services, Ministerial Appointed Steering Group (Government/Community)(Relationship Agreement), Chairman Te Kaiawhina Ahumahi (Social Services ITO), Chairman Treaty Claims Collective – Turanga Manu- Whiriwhiri

(Turanga wide Collective), Chairman Treaty Claims Collective - Te Pou a Haokai (Te Aitanga a Mahaki Collective), Chairman Patutahi School Board of Trustee, Chairman Muriwai School Board of Trustee, Chairman Turanga FM development working party, Chairman Local Maori Newspaper development Working Party, Chairman Gisborne Safer Community Council, Chairman Tairawhiti Healthcare Strategic Management Team, New Zealand Guidelines Group (Deputy Chair), Member – Maori Liaison Group to Gisborne District Council, Member – Local Church Leadership Team, Director Public Relations Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Strengthening Families Committee Drug out of Schools Committee, Inter - Denominational Chaplaincy Service Gisborne Enterprise Agency, Tairawhiti Maori Community Health Committee, New Zealand Health & Disability Facilities Standard Committee, New Zealand National Dyspepsia Core Committee, Tairawhiti Healthcare Quality & Risk Management Committee Gisborne Small Business Enterprise and Trustee Mangaotane Farm Trust (Chair).

Grendon is of Ngai Tuhoe, Ngāti Awa, Aitanga-A-Hauiti, Ngāti Porou, descent and has fifteen years international experience putting together major ventures involving bluechip companies expanding their brand coverage into new and emerging markets, increasing and sustaining EDBITA growth in dynamic and fast-track environments. Since 2000 he has advocated social enterprise and entrepreneurship drawing upon sound business techniques and private sector approaches to find solutions to social, cultural, or environmental issues and challenges.

Grendon has proven achievements within the construction and property development industries with a career that started working for top tier international companies owned by General Electric Company (GEC), Exxon Mobil, Marconi Commerce Systems International and the BTR Nylex Group. In 1991 he started a consultancy company in collaboration with Gilbarco Australia Limited providing complex design, build, project management and consultation services to blue-chip companies across numerous industry sectors, establishing strong relationships with global manufacturing and distribution companies based in Europe, USA and Asia.

He also has accumulated knowledge and experience in Māori, Pasifika and Mainstream social services, education & training, health & wellbeing, not for profit and ICT sectors. He has a number of board and committee postings focused on Youth & Family Services, Business Enterprise, Technology sector in Aotearoa and abroad. He has worked with victims, rescipients of homelessness, residential sustainable tenancies, mental health & physical diabilities, crimingenic behaviour and environments, alcohol & drug addiction, gangs, and suicide.

Peter is of Ngati Porou, Rongowhakaata, Kahungunu and Te Arawa descent. He lives in Hawai’i and is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Work, Hawaii Pacific University in Honolulu. Peter is known for his work in, and advocacy for, indigenous human rights, ʻlocalized’ expressions of social work, economic justice, and community development, advisory and action groups.

Peter was a lead architect in the drafting of the Indigenous Social Work Resolution on the Inclusion of Indigenous Voices submitted to the International Federation of Social Workers and United Nations in 2013. He has authored several articles related to Indigenous research, economics and social entrepreneurship, maleness and masculinity, resilience, resistance and sustainability. Peter holds a bachelor’s degree in social work and master’s degree in sociology, and, earned his doctoral degree in Social Policy and Social Work from Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand. He co-chairs the World Indigenous Nations Universities – Hawaii Pasifika (WINU-HP), a non-profit organization focused on the advancement of Indigenous education. Peter serves on several editorial committees.

Warwick (Wol) Hansen has worked in the mental health field for over twenty years beginning as an AOD counsellor, then as it was named then a Dual Diagnosis Clinician, generic Counsellor and finally as a Psychologist. He has worked at the Tauranga DHB for eight years and six years working for Relationship Services (Aotearoa), five years for Te Manu Toroa Hauora and currently contracting at Whaioranga Hau Ora and Te Tuinga Whanau Support Services.

Wol specialises in Hauora (Maori Health) and has a broad experience supporting individuals and whanau who have experienced trauma, addiction, anxiety and depression.

• Anxiety - including Health, Phobias, OCD, Obsessions, Worry and Social anxiety
• Depression and low mood
• Stress
• Anger issues
• Relationship therapy - Including love addiction, co-dependency, and recovery from narcissistic abuse
• Eating disorders
• Sexual abuse - Including Childhood Sexual Abuse
• Trauma and PTSD (historic or recent including combat)
• Addiction - including Alcohol, Drug, Porn, Gambling, Food
• Group facilitation