Key professional skills

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• Thirty one years experience as a production animal veterinarian
  with a primary focus on sheep, beef cattle and deer. 

• Leadership and governance roles within several veterinary and
  farm related companies.

• Facilitator of the DINZ Monitor Farm 2007-2010, the HB Originals

• Advance Party, and discussion groups.

 

 

Governance and leadership experience

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• Immediate past General Manager of Vet Services (HB) Ltd.

• Past shareholder, director and chairman of Vet Services (HB) Ltd.

• Past director and chairman of Vet Services (Dannevirke) Ltd.

• Director of DeerPro Ltd.

• Shareholder and director of Jedburgh Farms Ltd.

• Executive Committee of Society of Sheep and Beef Cattle Veterinarians.

• Executive Committee of the Deer Branch of the NZVA.

• Secretary of the Committee of the HB Deer Farmers Association.

• Secretary of the Maraharakeke Porangahau catchment group.

• Chair of Howard Estate Advisory Board (Smedley Station)

• Chair of Tukituki Land Care catchment group.

 

 

Relevant study and experience

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• Recipient of the Alan Baldry Memorial Crook in 2015. This award is to a member of the Society of Sheep and Beef Cattle Veterinarians who has made a significant lifetime contribution to the country’s sheep and beef cattle industries.

• Initiated and completed the POP Group Study into vaginal prolapse in ewes in 2001-2002, involving 140 farms and 40000 recorded ewes.

• Published numerous veterinary papers, primarily on clinical aspects of sheep and deer disease and management. Presented to national and international veterinary conferences.

• Newsletter producer and communicator for Vet Services as well as a frequent contributor to VetScript, the Deer Industry News and several rural publications.

• Attended two Institute of Directors governance courses.

• Hosting the BVSc final year students annually, both the Sheep and Beef Special Topic and the Deer Special Topic, for over fifteen years.

• 2021 HB Rural Professional of the Year, HB Primary Sector Awards.

 

 

Farming experience

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• Farming 780ha of sheep, beef and deer in CHB, with a focus on fecund and productive ewes as well as a fully recorded deer herd with equal emphasis on venison and velvet production.

• Experience in recorded sheep, cattle and deer systems.

• Member of three sub-catchment groups within the Tukituki catchment.

• Award winner in inaugural Deer Industry Elworthy Environmental Awards 2000

 

 

Tertiary qualifications

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• Bachelor of Veterinary Science, graduating May 1990.