Patron

Brian Corban QSO is a professional company director, lawyer, business and community leader. He has experience in successfully leading companies through restructuring and deregulatory changes in the television, telecommunications, transport and electricity sectors. He is currently chairman of Genesis Energy, a member of the Waitangi Tribunal, chairman of the Melanesian Mission Trust Board and Auckland City Mission, chairman of Ngatarawa Wines, deputy chairman of Auckland District Health Board, chairman of a number of private companies and a trustee of various community trusts. In 2000 he was appointed a Fellow of the Institute of Directors (F.Inst.D) in New Zealand and in 2001 Brian was appointed a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Management.

Chairperson

Murray Jackson is the Chief Executive of Genesis Energy Limited. He has more than 30 years' experience in the power industry in Australia. Prior to joining Genesis Energy, he was Commissioner for the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Scheme in southern New South Wales for five years. He was responsible for restructuring the NSW power generation industry ahead of the introduction of the Australian National Electricity Market. Murray has been involved in development of key industry managers through the Mt Eliza Business School where he is a guarantor member of the company.

Deputy Chairperson

Maureen Shaddick is the Company Secretary and General Counsel for Genesis Energy and is responsible for the provision of legal services and regulatory support to the Company.

Trustees

John Gavin is Emeritus Professor of Pathology at the University of Auckland and is Executive Director of the New Zealand Cancer Control Trust. He has three doctorates and is author of over 200 research papers. An honorary life member of the Cancer Society of New Zealand, he has had extensive experience with organisations which fund research including the Cancer Society, the Medical Research Council, the Deafness Research Foundation and the Dental Research Foundation, and he has recently completed an independent review of the Neurological Foundation.

Alan Gray is a radiation oncologist and former medical director of the Cancer Society. Based in Wellington he takes an active interest in cancer policy and research.

Ms Helen Glasgow has been the Executive Director for The Quit Group since 2000, and for the previous ten years was Manager, Health Promotion for the Cancer Society of New Zealand. While working for the Cancer Society, Ms Glasgow focused on promoting healthy lifestyles and developing strategies for melanoma prevention and early detection, nutrition and tobacco control. Ms Glasgow was recently appointed to the Cancer Control Council. She was awarded the Public Health Association's Public Health Champion Award in 1999 and received the QSM in 2004 for her work in tobacco control.

Betsy Marshall is Policy Advisor, Cancer Screening and Cancer Control, for the Cancer Society of New Zealand. Over the past twenty years she has served on numerous national advisory committees, Ministerial reviews and working parties relating to cancer screening. During the past ten years she has been involved in advocacy for a more strategic approach to the control of cancer in New Zealand and had a key role in the development of The New Zealand Cancer Control Strategy and its associated Action Plan.