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  • An experienced and trusted communications adviser with a diverse skillset and wide-ranging expertise in media,       policy development, corporate advocacy and government relations.

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  • Began working life as an economist and policy adviser at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, and at the Ministries of     Commerce and Fisheries.

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  • Fifteen years in journalism. As a financial journalist in New York, he covered the private equity and fund management     industries, and in New Zealand held reporting and editing roles at newspapers including the Independent Business   Weekly, NBR (Parliamentary Press Gallery), the Sunday Star-Times and the New Zealand Herald, winning several major   awards.

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  • Has spent twenty-five years in corporate communications, investor relations and government relations in New Zealand   (10 years and Asia (15 years), working in- house and externally, and holding managing director roles. His New Zealand   clients have included some of our largest organisations in the agricultural, financial, education, transport and tech   sectors. Clients in Thailand, Singapore and China included regional banks, telcos, law firms and New Zealand   government agencies.