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 Te Ariki Boynton is of Ngai Tuhoe, Whakatohea, Aitanga A Hauiti, Ngati Porou, descent. His international business career repeatedly produced sustained revenue and EBITA growth in dynamic and changing markets and has proven achievements within mining industrial engineering, petrol chemical, construction, social services, education & training NGO's, not for profit, and ICT industries.

He has extensive business background within local and international multicultural environments. His career started working for top tier international companies owned and run by GEC, Mobil Exxon, Marconi Commerce Systems International and the BTR Nylex Group. In the nineties he started his own 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. Returning to New Zealand in 2002 working within the social services, education & training, not for profit and ICT sectors in roles such as Director of the NZ Sunday School Union, Managing Director for Kiwi Online Limited, Head of School for NZ College of Natural Medicine, Head of School for Skills Update Training Institute, Residential Manager at Hohepa Homes Trust, Member of the Senior Management Team at ATC Vision College, advisor to the NZ Youth Mentoring Network and serves on a number of advisory committees within the education & training sector. 2003 Grendon was part of Parekura Horomia’s “Nga Kaiarataki” leadership team that piloted return to Maori Trade Training modern apprenticeships. In 2005 he launched low cost internet connection into the NZ market cutting costs for New Zealander’s by over fifty percent.

Luana Te Hira is of Waikato, Ngati Raukawa, Maniapoto, Kahungunu and Rongomaiwahine descent. She currently resides within the korowai of Kirikiriroa whilst serving Maori and Pasifika peoples residing within South Auckland. She is passionate about the advancement of indigenous and native knowledge, narratives and the application of principled practice. Luana is known for her work in tertiary vocational education, community and social work practice, social justice, adult educational reforms, advancement of indigenous and native curriculum design, development, delivery and evaluative reviews.

Her commitment to grow and advance access for all peoples, particularly indigenous and native women to be authentic leaders and entrepreneurs is what inspires and motivates her. Currently serves within a role that has a commitment to increase the number of Maori and Pasifika peoples to enter the health workforce within Aotearoa, New Zealand. to ensure an increase in the number of Maori and Pasifika registered nurses. She brings an extensive range of both paid and unpaid work within the fields of youth work, community development, iwi development and health work, family centred practice to individual and family out reached initiatives. All of which requires a variety of skillsets, the most important being that of the individual and their families wellbeing. Luana is a daughter, grand- daughter, sister, niece, cousin and most importantly of all is an aunty.

She is commonly known to many as ‘Aunty Lu’ and works earnestly to ensure that whether you are a child, young person, young adult, parent and or grandparent she will advocate strongly to ensure that you have voice. Though she has written a number of publications her passion and desire remains at the core of how can she best serve you and your whanau. She enjoys writing, spending time with family and looks forward to the day when she will quietly sit on her front veranda looking over the beautiful shores of home.

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 action and an active member of a number of social development advisory 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.