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Brian Souness
Chief Executive
DDI: +64 6 759 5171
Mob: +64 274 372 305
Email: brian@capenz.co.nz |
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Ambrose Blowfield
Business Development Manager
DDI: +64 6 759 5177
Mob: +64 27 281 7050
Email: ambrose@capenz.co.nz |
| Brian has over 20 years project management experience in the oil and gas business having held many senior positions for British Gas internationally, before living and working in New Zealand. Prior to taking up his new role, he held the position of Business Development Manager/Business Coordinator for Engineering Taranaki Consortium. |
Ambrose has several years' experience in Business Development in a variety of industries in the UK, Switzerland, France, Singapore and Australia, in both start-up offices and major international corporations. He previously qualified with a bilingual honours degree in International Business with French. |
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Bev Batchelar
Procurement Manager
DDI: +64 6 759 5176
Mob: +64 27 201 0012
Email: bev@capenz.co.nz |
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Ian Major
Regional Training Manager
DDI: +64 6 759 5178
Mob: +64 274 997 042
Email: ian@capenz.co.nz |
| Bev has held a number of middle to senior management roles across a wide range of industries and has international and national business administration experience. She has a strong working knowledge of economic development, personnel, quality management, financial, and project management systems. |
Ian Major is a qualified tradesperson with over 20 years' experience in Taranaki's engineering industry, since completing his apprenticeship at Fitzroy Engineering. He has since worked in planning, quality assurance, HR & training. He joins the team having been HR Manager at Challenge Engineering and Personnel & Training Officer at Fitzroy Engineering. |
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Kristian Slack
New Product Development Manager and Director International Centre for Innovation and Applied Research in Engineering (ICIARE) at WITT
DDI: +64 6 759 5179
Mob: +64 27 466 0419
Email: kristian@capenz.co.nz |
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Chris Ryan
Head of Department for Engineering at WITT
DDI: +64 6 757 3100
Mob: +64 27 4660392
Email: c.ryan@witt.ac.nz
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| Kristian has experience in the research development and commercialisation of new technologies and products across a variety of industry sectors. His experience has been gained in academic, government, manufacturing and consultancy positions , working in Europe, US, Middle East, SE Asia and Asia Pacific. |
Chris is a professional engineer with wide-ranging knowledge and experience in all branches of civil, mechanical and automotive engineering. He joins the team as the former Head of the Engineering School at Otago Polytechnic. |
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Edward Smith
Director International Centre for Innovation and Applied Research in Engineering (ICIARE) at WITT
DDI: +64 757 3100 ext 8817
Mob: +64 27 466 0419
Email: Edward.smith@witt.ac.nz |
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| Edward comes to New Plymouth after 21 years as a Senior Lecturer and Fellow at Massey University. He also has extensive teaching, research and industry experience from a number of organisations in the UK. |
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