Trustees
Kevin Prime
Chair
Kevin is married to Margaret, with 13 children and seven grandchildren. He is beef farmer, forester, beekeeper and works part time as a commissioner with the Environment Court. Prior to his appointment to the Environment Court he spent most of his time on companies, trusts and community organisations pertaining to philanthropy, health, conservation, Maori development, education, environmental issues, forestry, farming and sport. His hobbies are family, sport, learning new things and his favourite holiday spot is at home on the farm, in Northland’s Motatau.
Ann Green
Trustee
A member of ASB Community Trust's Board since 2003, Ann has been part of the Northland community for nearly 20 years. During this time she has been actively involved in the community through work as a physiotherapist in the area and with various voluntary organisations, including Zonta, the board of trustees at the local college and other organisations as her three sons were growing up. She is currently working part time at the Bay of Islands Hospital in a clinical role and as director of an occupational safety and health company.
Brian Lythe
Deputy Chair
Brian has been an adviser to international students at the University of Auckland for more than 30 years. He has been a member of the Eden-Albert Community Board and the Auckland Regional Authority. He is a member of the Catholic Institute of Theology’s board and past trustee of the Eugene O’Sullivan Theological Library.
For 20 years Brian was a Mount Albert Rugby League coach and is now a life member of the club. He was also a coach at the Eden Roskill Cricket Club and for Mount Albert Grammar School cricket teams. A member of the Labour Party, he is a former chair of the Mount Albert Labour Electorate Committee.
Candis Craven
Trustee
Candis Craven (ONZM) is the chair of ASBCT’s Finance and investment Committee. She is also on the board of the Public Trust and the Occupational Therapy Board of NZ. Candis is very involved in the arts and chairs the NZ Contemporary Arts Trust. She also works as a consultant in the health, tertiary education and local government sectors.
She is currently the independent chair of the Advisory Committee on the Clinical Workforce to Support Registered Nurses.
She has been chair of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on External Aid and Development and had a 20 year involvement with the New Zealand Family Planning Association. For many years she was also on the board of the International Planned Parenthood Federation.
Candis was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the New Year’s Honours 2001 for Services to Health Education. She has an M.A.(Hons) and a Graduate Diploma in Business Studies.
Jenny Kirk
Trustee
Jenny Kirk, MNZM, is a former Member of Parliament (1987-1990), North Shore City Councillor (1995-2001) and community board member. Jenny has considerable experience in management of not-for-profit organisations as chief executive of the National Foundation for the Deaf and North Harbour Employment Resource Centre. She is a trustee with Womens’ Health Action Trust, an advisor to the Grandparents’ Raising Grandchildren Trust and member of Northart.
Kristen Kohere-Soutar
Trustee
Ngati Porou, Ngai Tahu, Rongowhakaata
Kristen has been a board member since 2004. She is the managing director of Maori management consultancy, Piata Limited, which specialises in organisational Maori governance and strategy, treaty effectiveness audits and reviews for central and local government and the private sector. Kristen is active in the Auckland Maori community and in particular in Maori performing arts both as a well known performer and as a judge.
Kristen is also a member of the Maori Womens’ Economic Sustainability Reference Group for the Ministry of Womens’ Affairs. Kristen is married to Barry Soutar (Ngati Porou) and they have five children between them.
Waitai Petera
Trustee
The Maori Development Officer for the country’s largest intellectual disability service provider for Maori, Te Roopu Taurima o Manukau, Waitai holds a Master of Management from Auckland University.
With tribal affiliations to Northland’s Te Aupouri and Ngati Kuri, he is the former chief executive of the Te Aupouri Maori Trust Board, of which he is still a member. He is an iwi representative on the Maritime and Seafood Educators Association of Aotearoa and a Te Aupouri Iwi negotiator for land and fisheries settlement claims.
Waitai also represents Te Ohu Kaimoana, the statutory organisation dedicated to future advancement of Maori interests in the marine environment, on the Maori Caucus Seafood Advisory Committee and the Aquaculture and Seafood Advisory Group.
Lorraine Wilson
Trustee
A companion of the Auckland War Memorial Museum, Lorraine’s public positions include the board of Te Papa, Avondale Community Board, the Portage Licensing Trust, the Lottery Environment and Heritage Distribution Committee and the Olympic Park Trust Board. Experienced in leadership roles within the community, she is a JP and member of numerous community groups, including the Blockhouse Bay Mainstreet Committee and Avondale Business association. She was a former Vice-President and Trust Board member of the Auckland War Memorial Museum and served a term as company director with West Auckland Trust Services. Lorraine is also a consultant to the cultural sector, with clients such as the NZ Historic Places Trust, museums and libraries.
Mary Foy
Trustee
A Sister of Mercy, Mary has held leadership roles within the Sisters of Mercy Auckland and governance responsibilities in Mercy healthcare, education and community organisations. With almost 20 years’ teaching experience, Mary has also participated in the development of several community organisations including Monte Cecilia Housing Trust, of which she is currently Chairperson, and Te Ukaipo Mercy Initiatives for Rangatahi, a community initiative in Waitakere City benefiting at-risk youth and whanau. Mary was awarded the 1990 Award for services to the community and in 2000 the CNZM. Holding a Bachelor of Arts from Auckland University, in 2002 Mary studied in the USA, graduating with a Master of Arts in culture and earth spirituality.
Soana Pamaka
Trustee
Appointed Principal of Tamaki College in March 2006, Soana has taught at the East Auckland school for 15 years. With a BA in Education from Auckland University and a Diploma of Teaching from Auckland College of Education, she began as an assistant English teacher in 1990. By 1998 she was Deputy Principal of the 650-pupil, multicultural school.
She has worked with community police to resolve youth issues in the Glen Innes community, which led to formation of the Tongan Tamaki Youth Group, and has been a tutor for a scheme teaching driving licence requirements in Tongan.
Married with four children, Soana has also been a Sunday school teacher since 1990 at St Mary’s Cooperating Parish, in Glen Innes, where she is a parish council member.
Peter Rowe
Trustee
A partner at Auckland legal firm Minter Ellison Rudd Watts, Peter has been involved in many major corporate transactions in New Zealand and has acted as adviser to some of New Zealand’s leading corporations and international organisations. He provides advice on governance and corporate matters to the boards of numerous New Zealand and international companies and has been a director of companies including Union Shipping Group Limited and Coles Myer New Zealand Holdings Limited. He is a member of the Board of New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, chairman of the NZSO Foundation, a trustee of Auckland Opera Studio and member of the Selwyn College Board of Trustees.
Phil Greenbank
Trustee
Phil has had a long career in the Public Service, working in Inland Revenue, Labour Department and the Customs Service. He is a Justice of the Peace, a lay magistrate at the Manukau District Court and a Visiting Justice to the Auckland area prisons.
He is Deputy Chairman of the Papatoetoe Community Board, a community representative on the WINZ Benefits Review Committee for Auckland South, a member of the Advisory Committee to the New Zealand Community Growth Trust, a civil marriage celebrant and a patron of the Papatoetoe AFC. He lives with his wife in Papatoetoe.
Wilmason Jensen
Trustee
As managing director of Evolute, a niche film production and strategic communications company, Wilmason brings together a skill set developed over 15 years of involvement with the Pacific community, arts organisations, central and local government, as well the private sector. During Wilmason’s career in the Public Service he held roles as a Senior Policy Advisor, as well as developing and implementing economic development programmes for the region’s Pacific peoples. Wilmason lives in Sandringham with his wife and child. He holds a BA LLB from the University of Auckland..
Yoon Boo Lee
Trustee
Yoon Boo migrated to NZ in 1975 from Malaysia, a peaceful multicultural nation. He is from a market gardening background and has worked as a labourer, an engineer, a banker and currently works as a lawyer. He lives with his family on Auckland’s North Shore. He is active in the community and brings to the Trusts his ethnic diversity and multicultural experience. He has been a trustee since June 2001. He enjoys reading, believes in self reliance and organic growth within the community and he is a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia.