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COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Christopher Milsom (Chair)

Rewards Manager
Fonterra
Email: Christopher.Milsom@fonterra.com
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Chris is the Rewards Manager at Fonterra, providing reward and performance advice to many varied stakeholders across the Co-Operative. Prior to joining Fonterra, Chris worked as a reward consultant delivering simple and pragmatic reward solutions to many New Zealand organisations. Chris also spent a number of years working in the United Kingdom where he helped organisations to design and implement their employee benefit schemes in order to optimise their benefit spend.

Hannah Bell (Deputy Chair)

Reward Manager
Genesis Energy
Email: Hannah.Bell@genesisenergy.co.nz
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Hannah is the Reward Manager at Genesis Energy, working across the full spectrum of reward and benefits activities.

Having originally intended to become an Accountant before discovering HR at university, working in reward now provides the perfect blend of people and numbers.

Prior to her current role at Genesis, Hannah has worked in both specialist remuneration as well as generalist HR roles for a variety of organisations and industries including DHL, Vodafone, IAG and BNZ.

Deanna-May Zazulak (Treasurer)

Global Remuneration and Reward Consultant
Xero
Email: DeannaMay.Zazulak@xero.com
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Deanna-May is a Global Remuneration & Reward Consultant at Xero, supporting reward and benefits activities across New Zealand and global regions in order to attract and retain the best talent while the business continues to grow at pace.

Prior to joining Xero, Deanna-May was a Rewards Consultant for 5 years, working across industries to develop skills in job evaluation, benchmarking, pay structures and incentive scheme design at EY.

Michaela Williams

Remuneration and HRIS Manager
AA Insurance
Email: Michaela_WILLIAMS@aainsurance.co.nz
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Michaela is the Remuneration and HRIS Manager at AA Insurance, working across remuneration and benefits and also HR systems.

Before joining AA Insurance, Michaela worked in generalist HR and remuneration roles in Auckland, London and Brisbane for large international organisations such as AECOM, Barclays Bank, Bechtel and Vodafone. Her favourite time of year is the Annual Remuneration Review – mostly because she loves a good project plan and it’s the only time of year everyone is guaranteed to want to talk about remuneration!

Suzanne Florian

Head of Remuneration & People Systems
Douglas Pharmaceuticals
Email: SuzanneF@douglas.co.nz
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Suzanne is the Head of Remuneration and People Insights at Douglas Pharmaceuticals, a NZ owned pharmaceutical company. She has worked in the NZ, US and Fiji markets where she has developed and implemented remuneration, compensation and benefits plans and frameworks that support the organisations goals. Suzanne has previously been a People Partner so is an expert at balancing the needs of the organisation with the needs of the employees.

Suzanne is a seasoned P&C professional with a mix of generalist and specialist experience, along with a positive, people focus and keenness for efficiency.

Aimee Laing

Remuneration and Benefits Lead
Hamilton City Council
Email: Aimee.Laing@hcc.govt.nz
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Ryan Ghisi (RemNet Mentor)

GM Global People Programmes
Xero
Email: Ryan.Ghisi@xero.com
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Over his 24 year working career, Ryan has gradually moved from an IT technical focus, through HRIS consultancy to remuneration and reward focused roles. He has been fortunate to work for large UK companies such as Virgin Media, O2 and Sky and many international NZ organisations, such as Air New Zealand, Orion Health and currently Xero. The last several years he has worked closely with executive teams and boards on strategy and initiatives that drive employee attraction and retention.

Ryan has a passion for everything that impacts employee engagement, including recognition, wellness, culture, career and development, remuneration and rewards and leadership.

Kathryn Greene (RemNet Mentor)

Chief People Officer
Volpara Health Technologies
Email: kathryn.greene@volparasolutions.com
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Kathryn is a passionate global HR leader who is focused on delivering an outstanding experience across the employee life cycle. She has a particular interest in the development and delivery of best practice remuneration initiatives, system implementations and process improvement. During her career Kathryn has worked in both specialist remuneration and generalist HR roles across software, FMCG, manufacturing and healthcare industries. Kathryn is based in Wellington, New Zealand.

EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT

The Committee is supported by appointed Executive Managers, Strategic Pay Ltd.

Strategic Pay manage day-to-day operational requirements of RemNet.

Email: info@remnet.org.nz