Michael Mooney

Boston Consulting Group

Michael spoke on the 11th March 2008
Matthew Mooney is a Principal in the Auckland office of The Boston Consulting Group. He joined the Auckland office in 1996. Between 1998 and 2004 Matthew was based in the United States: he worked in the Boston office of BCG for two years; gained his MBA at Stanford University; and then spent two years assisting high growth New Zealand technology businesses while working for New Zealand Trade and Enterprise in Los Angeles. In 2004 he returned to BCG Auckland, and has been based there since. Matthew holds a Master of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws degree from Auckland University and a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. He sits on the Advisory Board of the ICEHOUSE, a prominent New Zealand technology incubator

Braden Dickson

Ernst & Young

Braden spoke on the 12th March 2008
Braden will speak again on the 27th August 2009

Kevin McCaffrey

Corporate Governance Centre

Kevin spoke at the breakfasts on the 6th May 2008 (sponsored by Chris Lambert Internet Consulting Limited) and the 5th May 2009 (sponsored by AUT MBA Program).
Kevin has considerable experience in senior management and consulting within New Zealand and across the Asia Pacific region. Kevin led the consultancy practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers specialising in Strategy Development, Governance Reviews and Change Management in the private sector, public sector and not for profit organisations. He managed the NZ Directors Fees Survey for over 15 years and founded Effective Governance NZ in 2006. He is currently CEO of the NZ Shareholders Association

John Barclay

ASB Bank

John spoke at breakfast on the 1st July 2008. Sponsored by ASB Bank.
John's background encompasses both line and HR management. He started his work career in finance moving into industrial marketing then general management of a fast moving consumer goods business. He had two years in executive recruitment followed by five years consulting in the design and implementation of organisational change before joining a telecommunications company as HR Director. His portfolio extended to include Property and then Information Systems Development. Immediately prior to joining ASB John was a Director in the Strategic Change practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting leading the team specialising in Organisational and Change Strategy.

Stefan Collins

Deloitte

Stefan spoke at breakfast on the 27th August 2008. Sponsored by AUT MBA.
Stefan is a senior manager with the Wellington office of Deloitte, and is a senior member of the Consulting team. After joining Deloitte in 1994, Stefan's focus switched to management consulting in 1999. Stefan's experience has been built on a wide range of business transformation projects, and his global view based on opportunities in Canada, the US and Australia. Stefan is now the New Zealand lead for Finance Transformation, and represents the firm in the Asia Pacific region.

Tim White

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Tim spoke at breakfast on the 30th October 2008. Sponsored by PwC
Tim will speak again at the breakfast on the 22nd October 2008. Sponsored by PwC
Tim is a Director in the Auckland office of PricewaterhouseCoopers. He provides strategic and performance improvement advice to private companies . Tim is responsible for driving the firm's Emerging Business strategy in Auckland and has a particular interest in high growth business. He also currently provides advice to businesses on surviving and prospering through the current economic downturn. Tim holds a Master of Management degree in management and Bachelor of Business Studies degree in International Business.

Tim's client base is diverse and includes manufacturing, information & communications technologies (ICT), food and beverage, fashion, healthcare, and services. Previous roles have included CEO of a technology company, and financial advisor with a large SOE. Tim's areas of expertise and specialisation include:

• Strategic and business planning
• Business reviews
• Performance improvement
• Financial modelling
• Capital raising
• Mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
• Sustainable cost management
• Business management advice

Gary Collier

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Gary spoke at breakfast on the 30th October 2008. Sponsored by PwC

Daniel Vidal

University of Auckland

Daniel spoke at breakfast on the 5th March 2009. Sponsored by AUT MBA.
Daniel is a general management consultant with strong hands-on systems and business strategy development experience. He is a partner of both Integral Consulting, a boutique management consulting firm in Auckland, and Intellectual Capital Ratings (NZ) Ltd, a strategic partner of Intellectual Capital Sweden, the world's premier organisation in the area of assessment of intangible assets. Also, Daniel has been teaching at a postgraduate level since 1995. Currently, he teaches the Entrepreneurship and Consulting Project paper at The Auckland MBA. Previously, he held the positions of MIS Manager and Executive Committee Member at the New Zealand office of Thomas Cook (NZ) and Principal Consultant of the Auckland Management Solutions Group at Deloitte. He also held line management positions with Ford, Air NZ, and ExxonMobil