Our Board
2024 College House Board
Back Row L to R: John Ruge, Jono Brent, Tom Music (Bursar), Rachael Pizey, Ashley Wilson, Samara Doole (Board Intern)
Front Row L to R: Archbishop Emeritus Sir David Moxon, Natalie Baird, Richard Adamson (Chairman), Richard Taylor (Principal), John Rolleston
Absent: The Right Reverend Dr Peter R Carrell (Warden)
Warden
The Right Reverend Dr Peter Carrell BSc (Hons) (Canterbury), BD (Otago), PhD (Durham) Bishop of Christchurch
Bishop Carrell was installed as the 9th Anglican Bishop of Christchurch in 2019.
Dr Peter Carrell was Director of Theology House and Director of Education for the Diocese of Christchurch. He has previously been Archdeacon for Pegasus, East Christchurch, (2018) and Archdeacon for South Canterbury (2014–2018) and Archdeacon for Mid Canterbury (2015–2018).
Born in 1959 in Christchurch, Peter grew up in Hororata, Dunedin, and Christchurch where he attended Christ’s College. He is a graduate of Canterbury, Otago and Durham (UK) Universities.
Chairman and Sub-Warden
Richard Adamson BCom
College House (2004-05) alumnus, Richard joined the Board in 2017. After graduating from UC Richard has held Corporate and Commercial Banking roles throughout the South Island and is currently Associate Client Director for ASB Corporate Banking. Having grown up in Invercargill, Richard had a passion to help ensure the growth and success of New Zealand’s regional based business communities. He was a founding committee member of the Dunedin Young Professionals and has been a board member of Otago Southland Employers Association. Outside of work, Richard's spare time is spent with his wife, daughter and son, biking in Port Hills and travelling.
Board Fellows
Jono Brent BCom, MEngSt, CA
An alumnus of College House (1996) and UC, Jono joined our board in 2013 and became Chairman on 1 January 2018. Since 2011 he has been CEO of Connetics Limited, a multi-discipline electrical and utilities construction and maintenance business based in Christchurch. Jono is an advisory board member of Art of Work Australia Ltd, a trustee of the Christchurch City Choir Foundation Trust, and a steering board member of the New Zealand Business Leaders Health and Safety Forum.
Natalie Baird BA, LLB (Hons), LLM (Columbia), PG Cert TT
College House alumna (1990), Natalie Baird joined us in mid-2015. Currently an Associate Professor specialising in international human rights, refugee law and Pacific legal studies at UC’s School of Law. Natalie has always had a strong interest in the welfare of others. She has worked at the Cambodian Defenders’ Project in Phnom Penh, at the Crown Law Office in the Treaty Issues and International Law team, and had governance roles with Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand and Trade Aid New Zealand. She is currently a part-time member of the Human Rights Review Tribunal.
Archbishop Emeritus Sir David Moxon KNZM; BA (Hons Canterbury); MA (Oxon); LTh,( Aotearoa); D. Litt (Massey, honoris causa) ; Hon Dr ( University of Waikato)
Sir David Moxon, a College House alumnus (1972-73) joined the Board of College House in March 2018. David is delighted to have the opportunity to serve an institution which he has said played a significant part in his career and was pivotal to his personal growth. He is a former Bishop of Waikato and Archbishop of the New Zealand Dioceses, and then served in Rome as the Archbishop of Canterbury's Representative to the Holy See. He is an Honorary Fellow of St Peters College Oxford and a Fellow of St Margaret's College Dunedin. He is a current patron of the Faith Community Nurses Association of New Zealand; a Pihopa Awahina of the Maori Bishopric area of Te Manawa o te Wheke; and a Waikato regional chaplain for the Venerable Order of St John of Jerusalem.
Ashley Wilson BE (Hons) Civil, MIPENZ, CPEng, IntPE
Ashley, a College House alumnus (1996), joined the board in 2015. After graduating from UC, Ashley spent four years working as a structural engineer at Holmes Consulting Group in Christchurch. In 2003 he moved on to Lewis Bradford Consulting Engineers, a specialist consulting structural engineering firm, where he is now a technical director and partner in the firm. From 2011-14 he was on the board of the Association of Consulting Engineers New Zealand (ACENZ) and is still active in this organisation. Although most of Ashley’s leisure time is taken up with family life (he has three young children), he still manages to take advantage of Canterbury’s great outdoors with mountain biking, snowboarding and walking on the Port Hills.
Rachael Pizey MBA LLB BSc
College House (2005-06) alumna, Rachael joined the board in 2021. After graduating from UC, Rachael has held a variety of commercial roles across the mining, electricity, waste management and aviation sectors. Rachael is currently Alliances Executive for Air New Zealand, managing the airlines partnerships across the globe and membership within Star Alliance. A champion for diversity and inclusion, Rachael looks to ensure College House is an open and safe community for all those that live and work within the House. Outside of work, Rachael enjoys time with friends and family, roaming art galleries and travelling (whenever borders allow).
John Ruge MEd (Hons), LLB (Hons), BA, PGDipTchg
I am passionate about young people and the transformative power of education. As an educational leader I constantly seek to empower both adults and young people to realise their potential. I love helping young people to be effective communicators, critical thinkers, and compassionate members of their communities, during their high school years and beyond.
My first career was in commercial litigation, followed by extensive experience as an educational leader in a range of state and independent schools in Christchurch and Frankfurt, Germany. I have been a member of a number of diverse boards in the charitable, not-for-profit and education sectors, and currently chair the Board at Avonhead School where I have overseen a significant post-earthquake building and refurbishment programme, and guided the development and implementation of its strategic plans.
As a Treaty partner, I actively seek opportunities to increase my knowledge and understanding of Te Ao Māori and Te Reo Māori, and to incorporate this into every aspect of my practice. As a leader I invest heavily in building relational trust and recognising the intrinsic value of individuals.
I am a compassionate listener and calm under fire. I have firsthand experience managing a wide range of critical incidents involving complex stakeholder and external agency relationships.
Tiffany Scott BA, PGDipHRM, CMHRINZ, MInstD
As a people leader, human resources professional and mother of two, I am passionate about all things people and culture, including creating the conditions and culture for people and organisations to be at their best. For the past decade I have worked within the NZ public service in Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch and currently lead a multidisciplinary team of specialist corporate functions within a large service delivery and operations environment. Prior to joining the public service I worked in Human Resources teams in private and public sector organisations in the UK, New Zealand and Australia, in the fields of education and investment banking. My association with the University of Canterbury (UC) has been long and varied, firstly as an undergraduate student of psychology and French, then as a staff member in Human Resources and the College of Arts, and most recently as a College House and UC parent. Having lived and raised our children within boarding school communities in Christchurch and Australia and watched them both thrive in residential colleges as tertiary students during the Covid-19 pandemic, I appreciate the unique challenges and responsibilities that come with residential life in an educational setting and am highly motivated by the wonderful opportunities that exist for learning, personal growth and wellbeing within such a close and supportive community. I value diversity it all its forms and continue to grow my own knowledge and experience of Te Ao Māori and Pasifika culture and world views, acknowledging our unique context here in Aotearoa, New Zealand. I have high standards of integrity and contribute to public service accountability as member and Chair of several internal governance committees in the areas of risk and assurance, design, investment planning, organisational development and incident and crisis management.
Graham Duston B. Com, P.G.Dip.
Graham holds a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Economics and Management and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from Otago University. He has over 35 years of investment management and financial services experience. Graham has previously held roles as CEO of SBS Wealth and the Lifestages KiwiSaver Scheme and also as General Manager New Zealand for ANZ Funds Management and ANZ life. He has also held senior management positions with Tower Trust Services and Armstrong Jones.
Graham and his wife Meagan have had three children previously reside at College House. They believe that College House has provided their (very different) children with a strong base on which to successfully begin their university life in terms of study, friendships, and social connections. Graham is an avid reader and enjoys exercising, travel and art. Graham is also interested in Artificial Intelligence (AI) especially where and how humans interact with AI, now and into the future.
2024 Board Intern
Tate Steele ME, BE (Hons) (CH 2015-2016)
Tate Steele in a Aerospace Engineer based in Ōtautahi Christchurch. Tate completed his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of Canterbury, specialising in Mechanical Engineering. During his studies Tate stoked his passion for education and mentorship when he taught a wide range of papers as a teaching assistant. For the last four years he has worked as a mechanical design engineer, designing high performance spacecraft to deliver satellites to orbit. Within this role, Tate has lived in the Netherlands where he had a opportunity to gain insight into different styles and work culture. In 2023 Tate stepped into the mechanical team lead role, Tate leads a team that is responsible for all of the mechanical systems on the MkII Aurora spaceplane. Tate enjoys the satisfaction of mentoring his team members and collaborating together to solve challenging problems, a skill he hopes to expand upon with the College House Board.
Tate is a College House Alumni from 2015-2016, in which he held the role of CCACC in 2016. He remembers his time at College House fondly and looks forward to reconnecting with the college as the intern board member. He is humbled by the opportunity to learn governance skills from the experienced sitting board members. Tate hopes to apply his strategic mindset, critical thinking skills, appreciation for mentorship, sense of community throughout the internship. For any Alumni considering this unique role, Tate would highly recommend taking the opportunity to contribute to the House in truly rewarding way. It is a very rare opportunity to learn more about governance and foster meaningful connections.
College House Representatives
Richard Taylor BPhEd, AssocDegSocSc (ResCare), Dip Tchg
Tom Music MBA, B Com, Bursar