OUR PEOPLE
Phil O'Reilly – Chief Executive
Phil O’Reilly is Chief Executive of BusinessNZ, New Zealand’s largest business advocacy group, representing thousands of businesses of all sizes.
Phil works with companies, organisations and political and other decision makers, advocating for New Zealand’s success by sustainable economic growth.
He is a member of the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD and is New Zealand’s employer delegate to the International Labour Conference and a member of the ILO Governing Body.
Phil chairs the Green Growth Advisory Group, the Capitalising on Research & Development Action Group and serves on a number of other Boards including the Innovation Board of the Ministry of Science & Innovation, and the Council of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
Contact
Phone: 04 496 6555
Email: poreilly@businessnz.org.nz
Catherine Beard – Executive Director
Catherine Beard joined BusinessNZ in January 2010 to head up its ExportNZ and Manufacturing sectors.
The dual role involves overseeing considerable changes to our services as we expand our manufacturing and international trade functions. These will be reflected in our online presence and training.
Catherine has a wealth of experience in government relations and communication on behalf of industry associations, and is a champion for New Zealand manufacturers and international traders.
Catherine comes from the Greenhouse Policy Coalition where she was Executive Director providing strong advocacy on behalf of industry to communicate their business challenges to politicians, policy makers, the media and the public.
Contact
Phone: 04 496 6560
Mobile: 027 463 3212
Email: cbeard@businessnz.org.nz
Catherine Mullane – ExportNZ Auckland
Contact
Phone: 09 367 0970
Fax: 09 367 0914
Email: catherine@exportnewzealand.org.nz
Angela Wallace – ExportNZ Bay of Plenty
Contact
Phone: 07 571 0600
Fax: 07 577 0364
Email: angela@exportnewzealand.org.nz
Lotta Bryant – ExportNZ Waikato
Contact
Phone: 07 839 2710
Mobile: 021 842 577
Email: lotta.bryant@ema.co.nz
Amanda Liddle – ExportNZ Hawkes Bay
Contact
Phone: 06 835 2528
Mobile: 027 705 4668
Email: amanda.liddle@eccc.org.nz
Jess McKendry – ExportNZ Wellington
Jess joined ECCC in August 2010 and became part of the ExportNZ team in March 2011. Alongside her role in the International team at ECCC, she is responsible for promoting exporter interests in Wellington.
Jess completed a Bachelor of Commerce in International Business and Economics and a Diploma in Languages in 2010 from the University of Otago, and spent time at the ESADE School of Business in Barcelona. Her time overseas gave her an even greater interest in global and export markets.
Contact
Phone: 04 460 1910
Fax: 04 473 4501
Email: jess.mcKendry@eccc.org.nz
Kellee Berry – ExportNZ Canterbury
Contact
Phone: 03 366 5096
Fax: 03 379 5454
Email: canterbury@exportnewzealand.org.nz
Sarah Lincoln – ExportNZ Otago-Southland
Sarah organises Employers' events and training and development programmes. She is also responsible for our ExportNZ, She's Motivated and Business Mentors business initiatives.
Sarah completed a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Otago in 2009, majoring in Marketing and Management. Since then Sarah has been working at a local recruitment agency where she effectively helped candidates through the registration process and was well respected with the clients she had contact with. Sarah still keeps her finger on the pulse in the recruitment industry as an Account Manager for an innovative on line recruitment tool, QJumpers.
In April 2010, Sarah joined the Otago Southland Employers’ Association.
Contact
Phone: 03 456 1813
Fax: 03 455 2181
Email: sarah@eosea.org.nz
Stephanie Moakes – Communications Advisor
Contact
Phone: 04 496 6554
Email: smoakes@businessnz.org.nz
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