Our People

AI Forum New Zealand Team

Leadership

Madeline Newman
AI Forum NZ Executive Director
Megan Tapsell
ANZ Chair
Mahsa McCauley
Auckland University of Technology Deputy Chair

Executive Council

Albert Bifet
Te Ipu o te Mahara AI Institute - University of Waikato
Amy Dove
Deloitte
Brandon Hutcheson
Chief Executive Officer, Aware
Ana Ivanovic-Tongue
academyEX
Colby Raley
Microsoft
Emma MacDonald
Stats NZ
Frith Tweedie
Simply Privacy
Graeme Muller
NZTech
Liam Gilbey
Air New Zealand
Mark Knowles
Xero
Maria Mingallon
Mott MacDonald
Michael Witbrock
University of Auckland
Ming Cheuk
ElementX
Sarah Sun
Callaghan Innovation
Tim Bradley
AWS

Executive Council Observers

Adarsh Pagolu
Google
Anshuman Banerjee
Spark
Albert Bifet
Deputy Chair Director, Te Ipu o te Mahara - AI Institute (University of Waikato)
Craig Pattison
Capability Collective
Maureen Crampton
Bright Think
Riki Hollings
Spark

Operations Team

Darsha Patel
Project Coordinator
CHELSEA McDONALD
Marketing and Communications Specialist