Karen Hayward C.P.S

Karen is an accountant and has worked in both Financial Accounting and payroll for over twenty years. She has experience with both New Zealand and Australian payrolls. She is a Training Consultant for The Association For Payroll Specialists (TAPS) and is based in their Sydney office. She travels to several States in Australia and New Zealand to train payroll professionals in Australian payroll legislation and law.

About David Living – Director of the Payroll Giving Foundation

With over 20 years of business experience, David Living tasted ’cause-related’ marketing in the 1990s, when his company at the time was engaged to launch the Cancer Society Sunscreen into the New Zealand market. Having completed a Bachelor of Science (Zoology and an MBA), he has been a commercial entrepreneur but in recent years has gravitated to the wider cause of philanthropy as a way to make a difference through social entrepreneurship.

Aaron Kitto is the Business Development Manager at PayGlobal in their Christchurch head office. Aaron holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Management degree from Lincoln (1997) and has a wide range of business experience ranging from Product Management and Solution Architecture to Business Consulting and Account Management in various companies in New Zealand, including Digital, Gen-i, Montage and Statistics New Zealand. Aaron’s current role sees him concentrate predominantly on developing new business in PayGlobal’s New Zealand market while at the same time keeping abreast of what is happening with regards to technology that could or will affect the payroll and HR sphere in the future.

Hon Peter Dunne

Minister of Revenue
Associate Minister of Health
MP for Ohariu : Leader United Future New Zealand

Hon Peter Dunne, born in Christchurch in 1954, graduated from the University of Canterbury in 1977 with a Master of Arts degree with Honours in Political Science, and has also studied business administration at Massey University.

He worked for the Department of Trade and Industry in Wellington during 1977-78, prior to joining the Alcoholic Liquor Advisory Council holding various posts up to 1984.

He has been an MP since 1984, holding the north-west Wellington seats of Ohariu; Onslow; Ohariu-Belmont and Ohariu.

He was a Labour MP from 1984 to 1994, resigning from the Labour Party in October 1994 to become a founding member of United New Zealand (now known as United Future) a few months later. He has been Party Leader since October 1996.

He has been Minister of Revenue and Associate Minister of Health since October 2005.

He has also been a Minister on two earlier occasions serving as Minister of Regional Development; Associate Minister for the Environment and Associate Minister of Justice in the Palmer and Moore Labour Governments; and Minister of Revenue and Minister of Internal Affairs in the National/United Coalition Government.

Earlier he was a Parliamentary Under-Secretary in the fields of Health (1987-89); Trade and Industry (1987-89); Energy (1988-89); Regional Development (1988-90); Commerce (1988-90); Justice (1989); Environment (1989-90); Internal Affairs (1989-90); and Local Government (1989-90).

He has written two books: \”Home is Where My Heart Is\”, published in 2002, and \”In the Centre of Things\”, published in 2005.

He married Jennifer Mackrell in 1976 and they have two sons.

Simon Boyce

Born in New Zealand but holding dual citizenship with Australia, Simon has lived and worked in both countries. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree and Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Western Sydney and started off his career in the legal industry. Working for ACC now for 5 years Simon has enjoyed a number of roles including change champion, trainer, payments officer and technical claims manager. Simon has been instrumental in educating the ACC case managers on how important the right and timely information is required, to ensure our claimants are paid the right amount in so that they can get on with their recovery and quality of life. Away from work Simon has a passion for music and fitness.\”