The Board of Directors

The Society has provision for a board of fifteen directors who provide the governance role for the organisation. All directors are elected by members at the Society's annual general meeting. Four of these may be nominated by the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand, General Assembly (PCANZ) which is the national governing body of the Church.

Directors are chosen for their church and/or business experience, their commitment to the mission of the PCANZ and their willingness to serve and promote the purposes of the Society. The Society at present has nine directors, all of whom give their time and expertise to the benefit of the Society without charge.

Within the Board we have a Finance Committee of suitably qualified and experienced people who meet monthly to make decisions on investment and other finance related matters.

We also have a Mission and Promotions Committee comprising of directors with extensive pastoral, administrative and church mission experience that oversee the grants approval process and provide advice on promotional matters.

The full Board of Directors meets monthly.

George Wadsworth, LLB, FLCM

Chairman of the Board of Directors

George has been a member of the Board since 1983. He has previously been chairman of Auckland Presbytery's Property and Finance committee and is an Elder of the Onehunga Cooperating Parish. He has been a partner in a law firm in Auckland for 40 years. As Chairman, George sits on all committees.

Ian Kendall

Chairman Finance Committee

Prior to retirement Ian had been a partner in the charted accounting firm Deloitte, for 24 years. He was director in charge of the firm's audit services to a large number of listed NZ and multinational organisations. Ian was a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.

W.A.(Tony) Caughey, B Com. MBA (Harvard) ACA. ACIS

Finance Committee

Tony has been a director since 1993. He has a background in business having held a variety of chief executive roles, including being chief executive of a publicly listed company and a large law firm. He is a strategy consultant and a company director. He is chairman of the Enterprise New Zealand Trust (which runs enterprise and financial literacy programmes in schools reaching almost 40,000 students per year), a Trustee of the Play it Strange Trust and is Session Clerk of Kohimarama Presbyterian Church.

Donald (Don) A Clark, BCom FACA

Finance Committee

Don is a director of several companies having earlier been CEO of Broadlands Dominion Group. Don is a member of Somervell, Remuera and served on the Board of Presbyterian Support (Northern) for 12 years, several as Chairman. He was a Trustee of St Kentigern College for many years and chaired the College Board. On retirement from the Trust Board he was made a Founder Trustee.

Glenn Mottram, JP CA

Finance Committee

Glenn was Managing director of the Bridgestone Tyres Group and is now chairman, director and consultant to several private companies. He has had extensive involvement with Rotary and many community service groups. Glenn is an elder at St Luke's Remuera where he is convenor of the Community Resource Team.

Simon Bilton B.Ph.Ed,MBA,Grad.Dip Bus (Finance)

Finance Committee

Simon is National Manager of Migrant Banking at BNZ and has broad experience in banking and finance in a range of companies in both the private and public sectors. Simon is an associate elder at Papakura East Presbyterian Church where he chairs the finance and fundraising committees. He is also a board member of Mercy Ships International.

Rev Douglas (Doug) A Lendrum Bth

Mission & Promotions Committee

Doug has served the Presbyterian Church for 13 years as a Parish Minister and 6 years as Co-director with The Mission Resource Team for the Northern part of the North Island. Doug's Parish Ministry experiences have been in rural, suburban and City situations and along with his work as Co-director and various General Assembly Committees, he brings a breadth of understanding of the church to the Board. He has represented the Presbyterian Church in a number of World Council of Church and Pacific Interchurch gatherings.

Rev Mark Johnstone BSc(Hons) Dip Tchg BD

Mission and Promotions Committee

Mark is the Auckland Co-ordinator of ministry formation and leadership development with the Knox Centre for Ministry and Leadership. His role is to support the intern-based model of ministry training in the top half of the North Island. Previously, Mark has served as associate minister at Cove Church in Aberdeen, Scotland, where he focused on community, children and youth, and minister at Wadestown Presbyterian Church, Wellington.