Trustees  

Ken Whitney

Chair
Ken is a solicitor in private practice with over 30 years experience in property and trust work, including trusteeships of a number of local and off-shore private and superannuation trusts. He is also a trustee of a private charitable trust and has been impressed with the work of the charitable sector in New Zealand. Ken is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners and a director of the local subsidiary of an international trust company and several other trustee companies. Ken is a born and bred Aucklander who is keen to contribute to the enrichment of our region through the development and support of charitable initiatives in the community.

Lyn Lim

Deputy Chair
Lyn is a lawyer who has been in private practice for more than 20 years, after   graduating from the University of Canterbury in 1989 with an LLB (Hons). She was a partner of Kensington Swan for nine years before starting her boutique law firm, Forest Harrison in 2006. She is the Chair of a not for profit association organisation for Chinese youths and was a board member of the ANZ Private Bank External Advisory Board. Lyn has also been both a council member and committee member of the Auckland District Law Society, chairing the Auckland District Law Society Ethics Committee in 2007. She was an executive on the boards of the New Zealand China Trade Association and Hong Kong New Zealand Business Council.
 

Unasa Enosa Auva’a

Trustee
Unasa Enosa Auva’a has been involved in education for 30 years, 19 of them as  principal of Mount Albert Primary School,  a multi cultural school in urban Auckland. Born in Samoa, he migrated to New Zealand in 1970, but still holds the chief title of Unasa for the village of Si'ufaga, in Savai'i. Married to Felicity, a New Zealand European who is also a teacher and local district councilor, he has four grown up children: Sara-Jane; Onosai; Meritiana and Latafale and one grandchild (Micayla). Unasa holds an MEdLM (Unitec), PGDipMgtmn and Dip Tchg (University fo Auckland),HighDipTchg (Massey) and in 2009 he was selected as the Fulbright Cognition Research Study Award scholar. The scholarship will allow him to study minority leadership development and aspiration at the University of Hawaii in 2010.

Alastair Bell

Trustee
Alastair lives in Parnell, Auckland, and for over 10 years has successfully run his own consultancy, now The Ruskin Group, specialising in stakeholder relations, business development and change management for commercial and not for profit clients. A Chartered Accountant and member of the Project Management Institute, he also has considerable experience in leadership roles within the community. Alastair is a JP and a member of several community groups, including Motutapu Restoration Society, Parnell Heritage and Citizens and Ratepayers. He has also been an at-risk youth mentor with Project K.  Alastair is currently a Director of the NZ National Party.
 

Mark Brickell

Trustee
Mark has had a 30 year career in education, business and the church.  He has been active in the community through the Swanson Residents and Ratepayers Association in West Auckland, the Massey Pony Club, rugby, softball and athletics coaching and other community groups.  He has been involved in a number of business and not-for-profit start-ups.
Mark has served as an executive member and Chairman of the Christian Theological Ministries and Education Society (CTMES) a body which represents the theological colleges sector.  He is currently the principal of a tertiary private training establishment.
 Educated at Auckland Grammar School, Mark holds a BA, DipTchg (Auckland), a Grad Dip Theol (Otago), and is currently completing a MM (St. Stephens University, New Brunswick).  Married to Cindy, who is a minister, Unitec Chaplain, and trustee of a West Auckland food bank, they have four children and a grandson.  They  live on a block in the Waitakere foothills.

Kristen Kohere-Soutar

Trustee
Kristen has served on the ASB trust since 2004  and in that time has held various roles on the Board including Chair of the Finance and Administration Committee and Co-Chair of the Maori and Pacific Education Initiative.  Kristen started her career in large corporates both as a a solicitor on Treaty claims for Rudd Watts and Stone (now Minter Ellison) and as a consultant for large accounting and management advisory firm KPMG working in the area of Maori and iwi organisational development.  She has successfully ran her own consultancy, Piata Ltd, for the last 10 years providing professional advice and leadership to the Maori health and tertiary education sectors, local government, Maori providers, Iwi authorities and private sector companies in New Zealand.  Kristen is of Ngati Porou, Rongowhakaata and Ngai Tahu decent.  She is also well known in kapa haka / Maori performing arts as a performer, judge and tutor.  Kristen was educated at Queen Victoria School in Parnell and Auckland University. Kristen is married to Barry Soutar and they have five children between them.

Bob Leveloff

Trustee
Bob coached softball for over 20 years and is a life member of both the North Harbour Softball Association and New Zealand Softball. He is also the 2nd Vice President on the International Softball Federation. He is involved locally through the North Harbour Club and Charitable Trust and is a member of a residents and ratepayers association. Born in Los Angeles, Bob has lived most of his working life in New Zealand.  He has a BA in Financial Management from Michigan State University, he is a JP and is the Managing Director/Owner of Sound Group Holdings, an importer and distributor of hi fi audio equipment.

Brian Lythe

Trustee
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.

Ian McDougall

Trustee
Ian has many years experience as a commercial vegetable grower in Pukekohe. He served on the South Auckland Vegetable Growers committee for 18 years, two of them as president. He represented South Auckland in the New Zealand Vegetable Growers’ Federation for six years and was national chair of the federation’s Fresh Market Section for three years. Ian is past-president and life member of the Pukekohe Jaycees and was a Trustee on the ASB Community Trust from 2000-2004. A keen hunter and fisherman, Ian was elected to the Environment Waikato Regional Pest Management Advisory Committee in 2008 and is the convener for management of the key Punga Punga wetland ecological site in Tuakau.
 

Toni Millar

Trustee
Toni Millar JP is a former Auckland City Councillor (2004-2010); Eastern Bays Community Board Deputy Chair (1998-2001) and Chairman (2001-2004).  A business mentor and consultant, Toni has had extensive experience in the not-for-profit sector and in 2009 she was awarded a Paul Harris Fellow for her contribution to the community. Toni was Deputy Chair of the Arts, Culture and Recreation Committee - Auckland City Council (2007-2010) and chaired Auckland City Creative Communities Arts Fund (2001-2004, 2007-2010). She is a trustee of the Auckland Arts Festival, Metrowater Community Trust and the Great Kiwi Anzac Day Breakfast. Past positions include Auckland Art Gallery board member (2007-2010), Friends of Auckland Art Gallery board member, Rotary Club of St Johns Inc president, Combined Textile Guilds of NZ chair, Craft Dyers Guild of NZ chair, Auckland East Arts Council chair and life member, Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Association councillor, St Heliers Business Association board member, St Heliers Glendowie Residents Association committee member.  
 

Moe Milne

Trustee
Moe is of Ngati Hine and Ngapuhi descent and lives in Matawaia, Northland with her husband George and their extended family. Because she believes children should grow up in their language, culture and land, Moe left the city and moved home. All her children and grandchildren now speak Māori and they live within a whanau environment. Moe has been a psychopaedic nurse, general and psychiatric nurse and most of her health work has been in the area of mental health and addictions. From 1988 she taught in Māori language schools and became a resource teacher, working with 14 schools to implement the Māori language curriculum. She was also involved in the teachers’ union and helped establish the Māori Women Teachers’ support group. She later moved back into health and worked in management until 1995, when she began work with the Health and Disability Commissioner, protecting and promoting consumer rights. In 2000 she decided to  become a resource person for her people and she is now an independent consultant. Moe has been a member of the Health Research Council and chaired the Māori Research Committee. “One of the achievements I feel proud of is the contracting of tribal groups to determine their own research agenda. I am advisor and interviewer on four research projects which have  Māori as the lead investigator,” she says.

Bill Plunkett

Trustee
Bill is a real estate licensee in Birkenhead, on Auckland’s North Shore. He is President of the Birkenhead Licensing Trust, a member of the Lotteries Community Facilities Committee and a member of the Ministry of Social Development’s Community Response Forum, Auckland North. A Birkenhead Rotary Club member, Bill is also a marriage celebrant and was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1996. He holds a postgraduate diploma in occupational safety and heath.