CDC Trust Board

Dr Garth Carnaby - Chair

Dr Garth Carnaby runs his own company providing governance, strategic advice, consultancy, and research services in the business development, science, food and agriculture fields. His other current appointments include: Marsden Fund (chair); NZ Synchrotron Co Ltd (chair); Australian Synchrotron Company Ltd (director); “Leveraging NZ’s Natural Resources” Foundation of Research, Science & Technology panel (chair); Royal Society of New Zealand (vice president business development); The Institute of Environmental Science and Research Ltd (deputy chair); Manchester University (visiting professor); and Lincoln University (“entrepreneur in residence”).
 
A Fellow of the Royal Society of NZ since 1992, Garth holds doctorates from Leeds, New South Wales and De Montfort Universities. He has received numerous peer initiated medals and awards from professional societies in various countries, and was awarded MNZM in the 2006 Queen’s Birthday Honours.
 

Mayor Bob Parker

Christchurch-born Bob Parker's broadcasting career is well documented.  After some years in Wellington and later, Auckland, he returned to Christchurch 16 years ago, living for most of that time in Akaroa.  Bob and Joanna now live in a Central City apartment.

For the past 14 years, Bob has immersed himself in local body politics, first by becoming a member of the Banks Peninsula District Council and later, serving two terms as the District’s Mayor. Bob has been a Christchurch City Councillor since 2006, after successfully leading the amalgamation of the Banks Peninsula District and the City Council.  He was elected Mayor of Christchurch in 2007.

Cr Bob Shearing

Bob Shearing is in his second term as a Christchurch City Councillor after three terms as a Riccarton Wigram Community Board Member. While retaining his position on the CDC Board, this term he was also appointed to Christchurch City Holdings Ltd. Away from Council, Bob has maintained his directorship with the company he set up more than 30 years ago, R A Shearing Contractors Ltd, a earthmoving and paving company. In the local community, Bob is a member of the Wigram Airforce Museum Trust Board, chairs a number of community trusts and is involved in a wide range of other organisations.

Cameron Moore

Cameron Moore is a Christchurch businessman with extensive business networks through membership and leadership of employer and manufacturer groups. He is a Director of Frontier Innovations Ltd, CORE Education Ltd, Manufacturing Growth Solutions Ltd, Mancan Foundation Ltd and Torrens Enterprises Ltd.

Cr Gail Sheriff JP

Gail Sheriff is a Christchurch City Councillor and company director. A city councillor for 13 years, Gail’s experience on a range of committees and issues includes chairing resource consent hearings, and the Audit and Risk committee.
Gail has a range of governance roles. She is a Director of Orion Group New Zealand, including the Audit and Risk committee for Orion and was a director of Christchurch International Airport for seven years. Gail is also a Justice of the Peace.

Frank Owen

Frank Owen is Chief Executive of GPC Electronics, a Christchurch based electronics design & manufacturing services company. GPC provides specialist manufacturing and supply chain services to the leading electronic companies of New Zealand together with several high technology companies in the United States.

Before New Zealand in 2003, Frank lived in the Silicon Valley area of California for five years, where his last position was Vice President & General Manager of the Power Components division of Tyco Electronics. At the beginning of his career Frank spent 12 years with Philips Electronics of the Netherlands in a variety of engineering and commercial roles throughout Europe. He is an MBA graduate of the Institute for Management Development (IMD), Lausanne Switzerland and holds a first class Electronics Engineering degree from the University of London.

Frank is married with two young sons and thoroughly enjoys the magnificent wide open spaces of New Zealand.

Peter Barrowclough

Peter Barrowclough is currently the Research and Development Manager for PGG Wrightson Seeds Ltd.  He is a Director of the Canterbury Economic Development Fund and Frontier Innovations Ltd,  as well as two PGG Wrightson Seeds joint venture companies, Grasslands Innovation Ltd and Gramina PTY Ltd.

Peter's former roles include: General Manager Business Development at Crop and Food Research; Business Incubator Development Manager at Industry NZ (now NZTE) where he was instrumental in establishing a business incubator network in NZ; Manager of CropSeed, Crop and Food Research's cultivar commercialisation unit; Founder of Southern Wasabi Ltd the first company to pioneer exports of wasabi from NZ to Japan; and export manager for D M Palmer Ltd - a produce exporter based in Auckland.  He has an honours degree in Horticultural Science from Lincoln University.

Peter is passionate about economic development and the role of commercialising science and technology to increase the nation's wealth.  Agriculture is in his blood and he lives on a small lifestyle block just outside the city.