Board
Board Chair - Kay Hawk (Ed D, M Ed Admin (Hons), BA, Dip Ed) is a sociologist and educationalist, and was a research consultant in the business world for 20 years. Over the last 20 years, she has worked in education as a researcher, developer and advisor to schools throughout the country. She has served on a number of school boards and community associations and been an active member of her Anglican parishes.
Joanna Pidgeon ( LLB(Hons) is the principal of law firm Pidgeon Law and specializes in property and commercial law. She is a director of the New Zealand Mint Limited, is a trustee of the Piha Kids Charitable Trust and sits on various law society committees. She enjoys spending time with her husband and two daughters at Piha whenever she can. Joanna is the great niece of Canon Caswell who founded Selwyn Village and she enjoys continuing her family's service to the Selwyn Foundation.
James Frater: BSc BCom (Auckland), CA is a Chartered Accountant whose work experience in the last 30 years has been in the accounting/company secretarial departments of Stock Exchange-listed public companies. He is the People’s Warden at St George’s Anglican Church, Epsom and has served on the Vestry at St George’s for many years including as Treasurer on two separate occasions since the 1980s. Jim’s wife, Janet, is a General Practioner in Balmoral.
Elizabeth Niven, RN, PhD
Elizabeth Niven has spent 20 years in clinical nursing practice and a further 20 years teaching in the health arena. Now a senior lecturer at Unitec, she is also on the Board of international journal, "Nursing Ethics". A member of St Andrew’s (Epsom) parish for 25 years, she is currently Chair of Faith Community Nurses of New Zealand. Elizabeth has undertaken a joint research project at Selwyn Village, which looked at the issues surrounding the introduction of technology into the lives of older people.
Gillian Reid (PhD, MBA, B.Com) has extensive senior business management experience, and many years in the ICT industry, both in New Zealand and overseas. As well as her many years on the Selwyn Foundation Board of trustees, she has been a member of the Auckland Diocese Resources Council, is currently on the Diocesan Ministry Appointments Committee, is a Synod representative, and has been a part-time lecturer in the University of Auckland Business School for the past five years.
John Cameron MProp (Honoris Causa), FRICS, FPINZ, AREINZ He qualified as a Chartered Surveyor (Valuation) in the UK in 1967 and practised in London and Europe for 19 years until emigrating to New Zealand with his wife and two children in 1986. John is currently Chairman in NZ and a Regional Director in Asia Pacific of Jones Lang LaSalle. He is also a board member of the General Trust Board of the Anglican Trust and also of the Bledisloe Estate Trust of the RNZFB, a member of the Advisory Board of the University of Auckland Business School and Chairman of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors New Zealand Branch. John is focused on assisting The Selwyn Foundation on property and development.
Sally Naulls
Sally was asked to establish a small programme of daycare for older people in a parish in Papakura, Auckland in 2000. That programme has grown exponentially through demand, and is now embedded in Anglican communities. A dedicated Christian, Sally raised a family of four before becoming involved in The Selwyn Foundation. She is now even more busy assisting others, encouraging parishes to set up their daycare, and serving on the board of The Selwyn Foundation.
Russell Florence, MCom ICANZ
Russell has been a partner with KPMG in New Zealand for more than 20 years. Highly experienced in mergers and acquisitions, due diligence, valuations, negotiation and governance, Russell is partner in charge of KPMG’s Corporate Finance department. He has provided strategic advice on some of New Zealand’s most significant mergers, takeovers and acquisitions. Russell has also been engaged on assignments throughout the Asia Pacific region and in the United Kingdom. He brings to The Selwyn Foundation a depth of understanding in governance, finance and corporate structure.
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