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Wendell D’Cunha (Chairperson & RemNet Mentor)

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

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.

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.

Irina Miller

Remuneration and Benefits Manager
Crombie Lockwood
Email: irina.miller@crombielockwood.co.nz
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Irina started her professional career in the field of organisational psychology, with a specific focus on recruitment and leadership development. A keen interest in “what makes organisations work” besides people and leadership, led her to join an international consulting firm where she became experienced in job evaluation, remuneration management and org design. She has worked for a variety of local and international clients, both in Europe, where she is originally from, and in New Zealand. Remuneration projects she was part of ranged from banding and incentive design to organisation design and workforce planning. Her first in-house remuneration role was at Fonterra where she managed a large portfolio of 11 territories, including Australia and New Zealand. Irina is currently a Remuneration and Benefits Manager at Crombie Lockwood, where she works closely with the executive team to develop and embed a remuneration framework and policies, relevant workforce analytics, as well as reviewing the entire suite of sale incentives and introducing broader non-financial KPIs to reflect the changes in the financial services industry.

Outside of work Irina is a keen yogi(ni) and enjoys spending time with her kids and a large blended family of six.

Michael Hibbert

Performance and Reward Manager
Bank of New Zealand
Email: michael_hibbert@bnz.co.nz
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Michael has recently joined the Bank of New Zealand after three years as the Group Reward Manager at SkyCity Entertainment Group.

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.

Salome Damle

Rewards Business Partner
Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited
Email: salome.damle@fonterra.com
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Salome is a Rewards Business Partner at Fonterra, supporting performance and rewards activities for both NZ and global markets.

She’s particularly interested in pay parity and is a founding member of Fonterra’s Pay Parity Committee. She’s also a committee member of the Co-operative’s “Namaste” Indian community group.

Before joining Fonterra, Salome was a Rewards Consultant for 3.5 years, working across industries to develop skills in job evaluation, benchmarking, pay structures and incentive scheme design. She also played a key role in developing EY New Zealand’s equal pay offering.

Throughout her career Salome’s recognised the benefits of RemNet membership and is excited to contribute to the network’s ongoing success.

Hannah Bell

Remuneration Consultant
Genesis Energy
Email: hannah.bell@genesisenergy.co.nz
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Hannah is the Remuneration Consultant 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.

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