Terri van Schooten, Chair of NZAEP

Verve Consulting - terri@verve.co.nz
Terri has been involved in the events industry for over 15 years coming from a business management background.  Her company, Verve Consulting, set the template for many iconic events such as the International Rugby Sevens, the Lord of the Rings Premieres and the Pinot Noir Celebrations.  Her company continues to be involved in the broad spectrum of events from awards celebrations, conferences and experiential programmes through to large scale public events.

Anne Hindson

Company Director, SGL Group NZ Ltd - ahindson@sglgroup.net
Anne has a strong background in recreation and tourism planning and management, having been involved in a large number of projects in New Zealand as well as several overseas projects. Anne is able to draw on over twenty years of experience in the recreation, events and sport industries as a practitioner to bring to her consultancy work. Anne has a Master of Commerce & Management and her event experience includes Project Manager for APEC Science Ministers Meeting & Associated Events: Regional Manager for the FIFA U17 Women's World Cup, World Junior Touch Nationals, National Touch Championships, and numerous conferences and events including the establishment of the ETF conferences.

Jennah Wootten

Jennah leads a team of 40 staff to drive the economic development of Auckland as a major events destination. Working in the field of Major Events for the last decade, Jennah has worked on some of the world’s largest sporting events including New Zealand’s largest Rugby World Cup 2011 delivery programme (Auckland), the successful delivery of multiple major events including the FIBA U-19 Men’s World Basketball Championships, Louis Vuitton Trophy, Festival of Sailing and World Rally Championships. Prior to joining ATEED, Jennah held event management roles with Auckland City Council, North Shore City Council and Western Springs Stadium where she was responsible for end to end management of numerous major events. She holds a Bachelor of Business Studies, with a double major in business marketing and marketing communications, from Massey University.

Warwick Hall, CFEE

Iguana Events - warwick@iguananz.com

Warwick has been active in the Festival and Event Industry for the past 15 years having spent ten of those as the Event Marketing Manager for the Lake Taupo Region where he built the highly successful 'Events Capital' brand. He has worked with a diverse range of fixtures, Ironman NZ, World Speed Water Ski, World Junior Motocross, International ISDE, Oceania Boxing and dozens of concerts to name a few.

Warwick’s work has been recognized on the world stage,  he is the central region NZAEP Board member, sits on an IFEA Global Think Tank with representatives from 22 other affiliate countries and is the IFEA representative to New Zealand.

Not great at sitting still, in his spare time he 'participates' in Ironman Triathlon, rides motorbikes and drinks to much coffee.

Jo Blair

Director, Brown Bread Ltd - jo@brownbread.co.nz

Jo Blair has a small consultancy company called Brown Bread Ltd.  Brown Bread is not a bakery. It is a tiny company that wants to make cool stuff happen. Just the good stuff. It's into converting good ideas for communities (what she calls 'brown bread' kind of ideas), into reality for others by building strategy, partnerships and launch campaigns.  Jo has ten years experience in developing and producing events, tourism marketing, commercial modelling events, attracting sponsorship and marketing ideas.  

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