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44 ANNUAL DIRECTORY 2017 SARITA MALES (New Zealand Food Innovation Network) Males has a broad background in bio-technology and bio-process engineering, business development, project management and product development in the food, advertising and software industries, as well as start-up experience. She has a Bachelor of Technology (Bio-Technology and Bio-Process Engineering) from Massey University, and post graduate qualifications in Dairy Science and Technology, and Business Administration (Finance). Her previous career experience includes roles with the New Zealand Dairy Board, New Zealand Dairy Ingredients, wheat producer Manildra Group (London and New South Wales), Ogilvy Interactive Worldwide (London), Terralink International and the Hyperfactory. Males moved from the chief executive role of The FoodBowl to chief executive of New Zealand Food Innovation Network (NZFIN) in 2016, with a focus on enabling and supporting all the constituent parts of the Network to work in a consistent and collaborative way. PROFESSOR RICHARD ARCHER (Massey University) Archer has the Logan Campbell Chair at Massey, is a Fellow of both IPENZ and NZIFST, and heads the Institute of Technology and Engineering. He is director of FIET and leads the PGP research programme into plantation-derived Manuka honey. WHAIMUTU DEWES (Sealord, Ngati Porou and Ngati Rangitihi) Dewes is chairman of the Sealord board and has served in a number of seafood-related roles including the first 10 years of the Treaty of Waitangi Fisheries Commission. He is a former director of Moana Pacific Fisheries and was deputy chairman of Sealord from 1992-2008. Dewes is active in the affairs of his iwi, and is also on the boards of Contact Energy and the Treasury. He is the chairman of Housing New Zealand, was a director at TVNZ and AMP, has a Master’s degree in public administration and degrees in arts and law. DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR SIR PETER GLUCKMAN (University of Auckland and chief science advisor to the Prime Minister of New Zealand) Peter Gluckman established the Liggins Institute to support and nurture world-class multi-disciplinary research in the New Zealand scientific community. He has won numerous awards and international recognition, including a Knighthood in 2009; New Zealand’s top science award, the Rutherford Medal, in 2001; and is the only Kiwi elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science (US). WHO’S WHO


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