Craig Stobo

Craig has extensive funds management experience having been involved in establishment of BT Funds Management NZ and as CEO building it to $3.5b under management. Chaired the 2004 Tax Review Towards Consensus on the Taxation of Investment Income, established by the Minister of Finance to review tax reforms for the NZ savings and investment industry which led to the Portfolio Investment Entity (PIE) tax regime.Chaired the International Fund Services Development Group established by the Prime Minister in 2010 to provide advice on steps required to establish NZ as a fund domicile.Director of a number of companies including Chairman of AMP NZ Office Ltd.

Jason McCracken

Jason is currently the Executive General Manager - Personal Insurance Claims for the Suncorp Group based in Brisbane. Suncorp Personal Insurance Claims has annual budget of $2.4b AUD and he managers over 2500 staff across Australia. Prior to this role he was the EGM for the Suncorp Personal Insurance brand which is the largest personal lines general insurance underwriter in Queensland. In NZ Jason was a member of the Executive Committee for IAG and over a 10 year period held a variety of Executive roles within the IAG Group. His most recent role was the Head of Business Partners in New Zealand, responsible for the management of insurance products sold through NZ’s leading Banks and financial institutions. He held a number of other roles over this time including General Manager, Sales and Marketing for IAG NZ and Marketing Manager for State Insurance. Before joining IAG he was the CEO of the Insurance Institute of New Zealand. Jason is Chair of NZ Hockey Umpires and sits on the World Hockey Umpiring Board (FIH) after recently retiring from a career as an international umpire.

Timothy Jones

Tim Jones is Chief Operating Office at Chapman Tripp – a major New Zealand Law Firm. He was previously Finance Director of the Practiv Group – a privately owned marketing and application development company that provides its services to the UK insurance industry. Although based in New Zealand Tim was responsible for all aspects of the finance, corporate governance and financial reporting of the Practiv Group. Joined Practiv from KPMG where he was a Director in the Middle Market Advisory division. Specialised in providing accountancy, tax and consultancy services to privately owned entrepreneurial clients – with a focus on rapidly growing SME clients.

Michael Maunsell

Mike has significant commercial experience in the technology, pharmaceutical, healthcare and publishing sectors. In particular, he has been involved in a number of commercial ventures using technology to enable the achievement of business goals. Mike held a number of commercial roles in NZ but also in Australia (1994-1996) and USA (2000-2003). From 2003-2006, Mike was Chief Operating Officer, ProCare Health Ltd, managing all aspects of services provided to 188 general practices with 650,000 patients (responsible for management of $90 million in government funding).