Margie Apa is Chief Executive of Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand, the government’s new centralised national health
organisation. She has more than two decades of health-sector leadership experience, previously serving as CEO of Counties
Manukau District Health Board.  Before becoming CEO of Counties Manukau District Health Board, Margie was Director of Population Health and Strategy at the district health board. She is the first Samoan to lead a district health board in New Zealand and has also served as Deputy Director-General Sector Capability and Implementation at the Ministry of Health. In December 2021 she was named as Chief Executive of Health New Zealand, which is set to come into operation on 1 July 2022.  Margie graduated from the University of Auckland with a Bachelor of Commerce, majoring in management and
employment relations, and also has a Master of Public Administration (Executive) from Victoria University of
Wellington.  

She has been on the Board of World Vision New Zealand since 2011 and was appointed Chair of the Board in 2019.
Margie is an active member of the Pacific Island Presbyterian community and carries the honorific title Fepulea’i from her
family village of Sale’aula, Savai’I in Samoa.

Professor Gregory Bain, MBBS, FRACS, FA(Ortho), PhD, is Professor of Upper Limb and Research in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. He provides Upper limb orthopaedic services to Flinders Medical Centre and the Repatriation General Hospital.

Greg's practice is exclusively upper limb orthopaedic surgery. He has presented and published research papers locally and overseas on hand and upper limb topics as well as editing text books on upper limb disorders. Active research interest includes clinical anatomy, biomechanics, advanced arthroscopic techniques, anatomical based reconstructive procedures and arthroplasty. 

He has a special interest in surgical education, arthroscopy and minimally invasive surgery.

Mr Anthony Berger, MBBS FRACS graduated in medicine from Monash University in 1978 and became a fellow of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons in Orthopaedic Surgery in 1987.  He completed a Hand Fellowship in Louisville, Kentucky US in 1988 and was appointed Senior Hand Fellow/Hand Scholar in 1989.  He subsequently completed further training in Hand Surgery with Professor Stanley in Wrightington, UK, in 1990.  Currently, Mr Berger is in private practice in Hand Surgery and the Head of the Hand Surgery Unit at St Vincent’s Public Hospital, Melbourne.   Current practice involves all forms of Hand and Wrist Surgery including traumatic and other acquired conditions, reconstruction and microsurgery. 

Mr Berger is currently Senior Member Victorian Hand Surgery Associates, Director Victorian Hand Surgery Associates Hand Fellowship Program, President-elect  Asian Pacific Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand and Member Editorial Board Asian Pacific Journal of Hand Surgery.  He is Past President of the Australian Hand Surgery Society.

Malcolm is a member of Financial Advice NZ, he holds the designations of Trusted Adviser, Certified Financial Planner and Chartered Life Underwriter.

As an MAS Adviser, he works with professionals to understand their individual personal insurance requirements and maximise their retirement savings.

With 15 years in the financial services industry, it will be an opportunity to consider the key insights and to reflect on what matters to you.

Riana’s previous role was Chief Executive Officer of Hauraki Primary Health Organisation and Te Korowai Hauora o Hauraki. She has invested heavily in developing strategic, visionary leadership within the Māori and health sectors, and been involved with Kaupapa Māori organisations for most of her career.

Ko Riana Manuel taku ingoa
Ko Moehau kei waho
Ko Te aroha ki uta
Ko Hauraki te Whenua
Ko Tikapa te Moana
No Te Awaawa o Manaia toku ūkaipo
Ko Ngāti Pukenga, Ngāti Maru, Ngāti Kahungunu oku Iwi
Ko Mataatua, Tainui, Takitimu oku waka

I am a village girl and have spent my whole career working to improve the outcomes for our people here in Aotearoa.

I am a registered nurse by trade and have enjoyed a career that has seen me work across many different parts of the sector developing strong relationships as I go. I am a daughter to two of the best parents one could have asked for, a wife to an amazing husband, a mother to my beautiful tamariki, a nanny (which is by far my favourite role), a sister, and an aunty to many.

I am deeply committed to improving the health of wellbeing of my people and believe in doing so it will impact positively on the health and wellbeing of our great country, Aotearoa.

Ma te kahukura, ka rere te manu.

Dr Ganesh Nana is a first-generation New Zealander, born, bred, and educated in Te Whanganui a Tara. His interest in economics originally emanated from his love of numbers, which in turn arose out of his passion for cricket.

Ganesh was recently appointed Chair of the Productivity Commission Te Kōmihana Whai Hua o Aotearoa, after 22 years at the consultancy Business and Economics Research Limited (BERL).

Prior to BERL, Ganesh acted as primary caregiver to his pre-school children while also employed as part-time lecturer at Victoria University.  Before children, Ganesh managed to explore some parts of the world – including working in England as a researcher in the House of Commons gaining experience with IMF and OECD economic models.  On his way home to Aotearoa he spent several months visiting family and ancestral lands across India.

Ganesh believes economics is fundamentally about people and their communities, and is best reflected in our collective role as kaitiaki o taonga.

Mr Dominic Power, MA MB BChir (Cantab) FRCSed FRCS Lon FRCS (Tr&Orth) is a Consultant Peripheral Nerve Surgeon and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Birmingham University in the UK. He works as a hand and nerve surgeon within the National Health Service at the Birmingham Hand Centre and the West Midlands Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury Service which he founded in 2007.

In 2012, Dominic established the first designated Peripheral Nerve Fellowship programme in Europe and has provided highly specialised training for peripheral nerve surgeons from across the globe. He supervises academic trainees at all levels including Doctoral research Fellows.

He established the HaPPeN Research Network at the Institute of Translational Medicine in 2015 and the UK Peripheral Nerve Clinical Research Network in 2018 to develop multi-centre clinical trial capabilities in peripheral nerve surgery. He is currently Chief Investigator for two NIHR funded multi-centre trials in peripheral nerve surgery and has successfully delivered a portfolio of 8 academic, investigator led and commercial clinical trials in peripheral nerve surgery as Chief or Principal Investigator through the HaPPeN network.

Conrad is currently Head of High Performance and Player Welfare with International Rugby Players after a long and decorated rugby career. Born and raised in New Plymouth, Conrad first moved to Wellington to complete a LLB(Hons) at Victoria University from 2000-2003, before his professional rugby career began. For the next 14 years he played and captained the Hurricanes at Super Rugby level, won 2 World Cups and 94 test caps with the All Blacks before finishing his playing career with 3 seasons in France. 

He was heavily involved in the NZRPA throughout his time in New Zealand and took a part-time role with International Rugby Players while living in France. Since retiring from rugby he's taken up his current role, working remotely from New Plymouth for their Dublin based office.

Travis is a leadership development specialist, coach and supervisor, based here in his beloved hometown, Wellington / Pōneke. Travis' childhood fascination with our desire for certainty in an ever changing world led him into study and then an international career supporting organisations wrestle with the challenge of implementing large-scale complex human-centred change. Seeing the impact wise leadership had on this delicate balance motivated Travis to complete his Master of Science in Coaching Psychology from The University of Sydney and shift his attention to working more directly with the minds of leaders and leadership teams. This has been his passion for the past decade.

Since a return to Aotearoa to be more connected to home and whanau, Travis has been spending time supporting clinical leaders develop and explore what leadership means within our current pressured evolving environment. This entails a focus on more human-centred leadership that recognises the role emotional vulnerability plays in building connection and ultimately supporting our wellbeing.

Travis has special interests in change, self-awareness practice, cultivating intellectual humility, dialogic leadership and self-compassion.