1.ON STAFF |
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Trevor & Jan Yaxley - Founders |
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Elaine Steel - Academic Dean, Head of Business |
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2.LECTURERS |
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Selene Buttle (Human Resource Management)
MSc (University of Leicester)
Before moving to New Zealand, Selene was the Human Resources Manager for the Hong Kong Hospital Authority and managed its restructuring after the SARS epidemic; prior to that she was Staff Development Officer for Cathay Pacific Airways.
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Mark Crichton (Accounting & Costing and Corporate Finance)
BComm & Accounting (Univ of South Africa)
For many years a Financial Controller in the garment industry and then started his own IT company in South Africa, since coming to New Zealand in 1996 he has been a Divisional IT Manager, Administration & Finance Manager for Reid & Twiname Ltd and owns DataWise Ltd a software development company & MYOB trainer.
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Soo Yong Foo (Marketing)
BA Hons (University Malaya)
Before moving to New Zealand, Foo was CEO and a partner in Saatchi & Saatchi, Malaysia and founder of Elixir Health Malaysia., and is a minister in the Auckland area.
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Rory Jardine (Operations Management)
BSc Hons in Geochemistry (Univ of Cape Town)
A former Senior Geologist with Anglo American Corp. in
South Africa, Rory brings a tremendous diversity of experience to his teaching at several tertiary institutions in the Greater Auckland area.
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Tony Meyer (IT, Statistics, and Business Research Methods)
PhD in Computer Science (Massey Univ)
Widely published in spam classification research and a consultant to SpamExperts in the Netherlands, Tony teaches at Massey University and Northland Polytech.
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Scott Pearson (Entrepreneurship)
As an entrepreneur many times over, Scott has pioneered the StartRunGrow business education programme internationally and is an Advisory Trustee of Lifeway College. |
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Leslie Steel (Organisational Behaviour)
MA Management with Distinction (Webster Univ)
Previously taught in the MBA programme at Webster University, Geneva, Lausanne School of Business, and European University, Sion, Leslie is also a retired minister and New Zealand Army Chaplain. |
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Rizwan Tahir (Strategic Planning, Marketing)
Ph.D. (Univ of Vaasa)
A lecturer in International Business at the University of Auckland, Rizwan taught previously at King Fahd University in Saudi Arabia and the University of Vaasa in Finland as well as working for Volvo in Sweden and Thailand and for Nokia in Finland.
Ph.D. (Univ of Vaasa)
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2.GUEST LECTURERS |
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Murray Thom
Murray Thom left school at 15 with no qualifications. By the age of 23 he was Managing Director of CBS Records New Zealand, the youngest Managing Director of that group in the world.
With a strong desire to be self-employed he left the corporate life to strike out on his own. Against all the odds, not to mention a couple of major New Zealand organisations, Murray won the government tender in 1987 to introduce personalised number plates in New Zealand. In 1997 he sold that company to return to his real passion - the music business.
Murray and his wife Anne were having coffee one evening at an Auckland hotel, enjoying the music being played on the other side of the lobby. Murray said to Anne, “Whoever is playing that piano I am going to record.” I introduced myself to Carl Doy and we arranged to meet the next day. Thus was born “Piano by Candlelight”
When Carl Doy and Murray first met, neither of them anticipated that the Piano by Candlelight albums would be released in over 40 countries. Other Murray Thom productions include:“Espresso Guitar” with Martin Winch,
Carl Doy album Piano by Candlelight,
Moonlight Sax by Brian Smith,
Margaret Urlich’s album of covers of New Zealand classic pop songs.
MILK (Moments of Intimacy, Laughter and Kinship). All were big sellers locally and internationally - Piano by Candlelight sold 50,000 copies in its first year.
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John Sax
Founder and Trustee of For the Sake of the Children Trust:
As a businessman for over 30 years John has always had a degree of community involvement whether it has been assisting with the establishment of “halfway houses” in Otara, commencing youth programs, initiating re-training of the long-term unemployed to taking mentoring in schools. John has a vision and strong desire of doing what he can to make New Zealand a better place for children.
He has strong views of the destructiveness of many of New Zealand’s social policies and the damage they are causing our children. He is a promoter and a champion of caring communities.
John has many other business interests including Treetops Lodge & Resort in Rotorua and Florence Court, a category 1 historic mansion which is run as a boutique hotel. John is married to Alma and they have two children, James & Natasha.
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