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Gordon Trainer
Chairman
Gordon is an experienced finance executive having spent over 20 years in public practice as a Chartered Accountant (Scotland). He was a partner with the international accountancy firm, Ernst & Young’s Auckland office until 2005. From 2005 to 2009 he was Managing Director of a privately owned Auckland based company involved in selling and leasing shipping containers. Between 2009 and 2011 Gordon held various senior financial positions with New Zealand and Australian listed company, SkyCity Entertainment Group. Gordon is currently running his own business consulting firm.
Gordon has been a long-term financial supporter of SPCA Auckland and was Treasurer from 2003 until February 2009 when he joined the Board as Chairman. His family includes two cats who were adopted as kittens from SPCA Auckland. |
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Ben Palmer
Chairman of Audit Committee
Ben is a chartered accountant with over 36 years experience. He has recently retired from Ernst & Young where he was a senior partner. Whilst at Ernst & Young he established a governance and business risk management consulting practice. Prior to that he was an audit partner providing audit and consulting services to many listed companies, private companies, Government entities and charitable organisations. He currently works as a professional director and business consultant.
Ben is currently a director with Lifeline Auckland and he also chairs the Lifeline Auckland Endowment Trust. Ben is married to Sue, they have 3 adult sons and one grandson. |
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James Lock
James is a Investment advisor with 25 years experience in the industry. James is employed by Craigs Investment Partners, he is an AFA, and an NZX Advisor.
James is a Director of the Auckland SPCA, and an Advisory Trustee to the Auckland SPCA Trust and advises the RNZSPCA.
James is born, bred and educated on the North Shore, married and father of two young boys. His interests include stand-up paddle boarding, skiing and walking his dog George. |
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Anita Killeen
Anita is a Barrister at City Chambers (headed by John Haigh QC) and specialises in financial crime and fraud and criminal and civil litigation.
She is the former Chief Prosecutor of the Serious Fraud Office and holds a variety of governance roles in the legal, finance and not for profit sectors including serving as a member of the New Zealand Legal Aid Tribunal and as a Director of the Auckland Regional Amenities Funding Board.
Upon graduation from Auckland University School of Law school, Anita was awarded the Senior Scholar Prize in Law and has practised both criminal and commercial litigation. Her past roles include working at commercial law firm Phillips Fox and as a Judges’ Clerk at the High Court at Auckland as well as undertaking secondments to London and New York prosecution offices.
Anita is a regularly published author in the NZ Law Journal and NZ Lawyer and is an Alumna of the Harvard Business School, the London School of Economics, the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Institute for Strategic Leadership (NZ).
Anita has established, and manages, the Panel of Prosecutors for the Auckland SPCA. Anita and her husband Simon share their home with Norma, their gorgeous but very shy feline companion that they adopted from the Auckland SPCA. |
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Tom Agee
Tom lectures in Marketing at the University of Auckland Business School and is a member of the NZ Marketing Hall of Fame.
He has been an SPCA Director since 2005 and is a past Director of the Consumers’ Institute and the Parnell Community Trust.
The Agee family includes Trixie, Teddy, and previously Rusty, all wonderful SPCA cats. |
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Bob Kerridge
Bob is the Executive Director of the SPCA Auckland, focussing primarily on animal welfare issues. As a well known and respected advocate for the animals through his radio series 'Talking for the Animals' which ran for 12 years, author and subject of the biography 'Father and Son', plus 10 years as a columnist with the NZ Woman’s Weekly, and as managing editor of Animals' Voice, his long service with the Society has earned him a place as the voice for the animals.
He founded the NZ Companion Animal Council and their annual conferences, and more recently the New Companion Animal Trust, and is a Director of WSPA NZ. Bob is a Knight of the Order of St John and a Justice of the Peace, and in 2005 became a Member of the NZ Order of Merit for his services to animal welfare. He has also been awarded an honorary Bachelor of Applied Animal Technology from Unitec. In addition to his role in Auckland he is also the National President of the Royal New Zealand SPCA.
Bob and Michele enjoy the company of two beautiful SPCA cats, Aslan and Abigail, and the 'infamous' Yorkshire Terrier, Merlin. |
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Connie Miller
Connie has 25 years of business experience across a range of disciplines, specialising in Project Management, Marketing, PR, Sponsorship and Fundraising.
Connie has been a board member since 2008, is a founding trustee of the Mazda Foundation, and is a mentor at the University of Auckland Business School.
Her interests include community and public service, politics, aerospace, arts, music, film and just like everybody else – travel. |
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Giles Ellis
Giles is a highly experienced Company Director and Chief Financial Officer with over ten years experience in the investment banking and financial services sector
Giles joined the Board in 2006 and adopted an SPCA dog called Otis. |