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Wendell D’Cunha (Chairperson & RemNet Mentor)

Manager Reward, People and Performance
Auckland Council
Email: wendell.dcunha@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz

Wendell has recently moved to New Zealand after spending 10 years in the Middle East. After a career in Fundraising, he spent the last 10 years as a consultant for Hay Group working with over 2000 clients across a multitude of sectors.

Although Remuneration is his passion, he has worked with various organisations on issues like Talent Management and Employee Engagement. This has given him the opportunity to learn about various aspects that impact employee performance. He believes that the key to a great organisation is empowerment and building manager capability

Craig Pointon (Deputy Chairperson)

Remuneration and Reward Consultant
Xero
Email: craig.pointon@xero.com
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Craig is a Remuneration & Reward Consultant at Xero, helping them to attract and retain the best talent while continuing to scale and grow at speed. It’s no coincidence that Craig finds himself at Xero – he’s passionate about how technology can be used to do things differently, more efficiently and in a way that puts the customer at the centre. Craig’s previous experience includes specialist remuneration roles at Fletcher Building, SKYCITY Entertainment Group and Hay Group, with a particular focus on global remuneration, job architecture, analytics and HRIS.

Diane Tatton-Brown (Treasurer)

Business Partner
Tonkin & Taylor
Email: DTatton-Brown@tonkintaylor.co.nz
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A senior HR practitioner with over 20 years’ experience across all facets of HR with specific strengths in coaching managers, employment relations, operational excellence and remuneration. Diane is a member of both the NZ and Australian Remuneration Committees for Tonkin + Taylor and has a versatile skillset gained from her experiences across a wide range of specialist and generalist roles.

Diane fell into remuneration through her life-long interest in numbers and enjoys mixing and mingling with other people in the remuneration domain.

Kathryn Greene (RemNet Mentor)

Vice President – People
Orion Health
Email: kathryn.greene@orionhealth.com
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Kathryn recently joined Orion Health from Fonterra. As Rewards Manager at Fonterra, Kathryn focused on the development and delivery of best practice rewards initiatives spanning over 30 markets. She has a particular focus on remuneration benchmarking and job architecture, incentive management and executive compensation. During her career Kathryn has worked in both specialist rewards and generalist HR roles in the FMCG, manufacturing and healthcare industries.

Michael Hibbert

Group Reward Manager
SKYCITY Entertainment Group
Email: Michael.Hibbert@skycity.co.nz
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Michael is focussed on providing strategic input and operational guidance for reward practises across SKYCITY Entertainment Group. Currently he is responsible for remuneration and benefits strategies, principles, policies, processes and systems.

He has gained broad remuneration and HR reporting experience having worked in New Zealand and Australia across a number of different industries; from aviation to infrastructure to broadcast media. Michael often struggles to write about himself when doing so in the third person.

Lyndsay Burns (RemNet Mentor)

Reward Manager
Vodafone New Zealand
Email: lyndsay.burns@vodafone.co.nz
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Lyndsay has a strong background in HR systems, particularly in the remuneration and performance space, and has a great mixture of public and private sector experience.

Lyndsay joined Vodafone in January 2018 and came from a role in the public sector (Remuneration & Analytics Manager for Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment). Prior to that, she worked at IAG Insurance where she implemented a large scale performance system for their Australian business as well as leading the Performance & Reward stream of IAG’s acquisition of Lumley Insurance. Prior to IAG she has had experience at NZ Fire, NZ Police, ANZ and GSK (a large pharmaceutical) when she was based in the UK.

Ryan Ghisi (RemNet Mentor)

Global Remuneration and Rewards Manager
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.

EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT

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

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

Phone:+64 9 630 0462
Email: info@remnet.org.nz

Michelle Gapes,

Executive Manager/
Consulting Manager

Chantelle Banbury,

Executive Administrator