NZAL E-News Update_May 20 - New Zealand Asian Leaders

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Dear NZ Asian Leaders Established Members, Emerging & Young Leaders,
Foundation Champions, Sponsors, Supporters and Corporate Members.
Edition No. 8, 20 May 2015
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Top Asian Public Officials lead NZAL Public Sector Round Table in
Wellington
NZAL Public Sector Round Table
Thursday 25th June 2015
12:30­2pm
Inland Revenue, Asteron Centre, Level 5, 55 Featherston Street, Wellington
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NZAL Established member Mervin Singham­Deputy CE of DIA will lead this session with NZAL Public Sector Forum Committee
members Tim Ng­Director, Macroeconomic Policy, The Treasury, Pam Dunn­Unit Manager, North Asian Division MFAT, Debbie Chin­
Interim CEO, Capital & Coast DHB and Berlinda Chin­Director of the Office of Ethnic Communities. The round table will precede a
facilitated discussion with Asian Public Sector participants. Full content copy will be provided in the official invitation to be distributed
next week.
Attendance is by invitation only ­ contact Karinia Lee for further information.
Introducing our newest top Asian NZAL Members
Carolyn Luey; NZAL Established Member
Group Strategy and Operations Director at NZME with over 15 years' experience in
digital media, strategy, product management, marketing and business development
across a range of industries including fast moving consumer goods,
telecommunications and security services. Mahes Hettige, NZAL Established Member
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Mahes is the Head of Balance Sheet Management at BNZ with extensive funding
and funds management experience gained over 20 years in Corporate Banking,
Treasury and Risk management in senior management roles for a variety of
organisations.
Hae Min Kim, NZAL Young Member
Hae Min is an Economist with Electricity Authority where her work involves
econometric, statistical and economic analysis, developing advice on monitoring the
electricity market and cost and benefit analysis with a goal of promoting long term
benefit to consumers in the electricity market.
Victor Li, NZAL Young Member
Victor received a full scholarship to Princeton University to study economics. While
studying overseas, he also participated in the Hong Kong University exchange
program for a semester. During his studies, Victor interned at the Office of
Sustainability at Princeton University and was the co­president of the Chinese
Student Association.
If you are interested in becoming an NZAL member, please contact Karinia Lee, GM, NZAL
Welcome to NZAL New Corporate Member
NZAL are proud to announce NZ Opera as a corporate member ­ New Zealand
Opera is the face of professional opera in Aotearoa who aim to bring human stories,
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glorious music and the passion of opera to all.
La Cenerentola (CINDERELLA)
NZ Opera presentes Rossini’s liveliest and most joyful music
will spring to life at the Aotea Centre next week when La
cenerentola [Cinderella] opens to Auckland audiences.
Fresh from an acclaimed Wellington season, this happily­ever­
after evening pulls out all the stops to bring you a night out like
no other, where goodness triumphs in the most vivacious,
effervescent and heart­warming fashion.
Upcoming NZAL Events
NZAL Governance Mentoring Programme
Thursday 21st May, Friday 22nd May 2015
EY, 2 Takutai Square, Britomart, Auckland
All participants have their workbooks for this week's day and a half workshop to be
facilitated by Janine Smith, Founder of The Boardroom Practice. NZAL
participants include:
Ronnie Butt
General Manager
Comvita Ltd
Mai Chen
BNZ Director
Eva Chen
CEO
Wellbeing Charitable Trust
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Carol Cheng
Executive Member
NZ China Trade Association
Dr Xiaoying Fu
Special Adviser China
Development (ATEED)
Bharat Guha
CFO & Deputy CEO Corporate
Southern Institute of Technology
Lester Khoo
Director of International Relations &
Development
AUT University
Wendy Lau
Head of Strategy & Risk
Lumley
Zheng Li
Founder & CEO
Zing Design
Rakel Liew
GM Major Events
ATEED
Caroline Quay
Director
Catalyst Investments
Qaiser Rashid
Director International/Dean
International College of Auckland
Debbie Sew Hoy
General Manager
Glacier Investments
David Tse
Business Manager Enterprise
Spark
Zhaoyang Xin
MD
Real Estate
Christine Young
Head of Internal Audit
Kiwibank Limited
Liz Young
Director
Kio Kio New Zealand Limited
May Zhang
Head of Treasury Finance
Westpac
Lin Zhuo
Finance & Business Manager
Parnell Trust
If you would like to join NZAL participants above, members and sponsors below for refreshments and nibbles on
Thursday 21 May from 5:45­7:00pm, please contact Karinia Lee, GM , NZAL asap
Janine Smith
Principal, The Boardroom Practice
Danny Chan
Experienced Governors Panel
Lyn Lin
Experienced Governors Panel
Graeme Wong
Experienced Governors Panel
Joanna Doolan
Partner
Ernst & Young
Sameer Handa
CEO
Patton Ltd
Kai Luey
New Chairperson
Auckland Chinese Community Centre
Richard Leung
Product Manager
Glacier Investments Ltd
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Martin Bing
Founder/Managing Director
1place Limited
Johnathan Chen
Head of Division­Asia
James & Wells
Lex Chen
Investment Banking Analyst
Northington Partners
Catherine Wei
Management Consultant
Deloitte
NZ Asian Leaders Asian Media Forum
How best to communicate with Asian New Zealanders as customers and citizens
Thursday 18th June 2015
Kindly hosted by SKYCITY and Bananaworks, you will hear from Key Asian media communicating with NZ's Asian population,
including:
Chinese Herald
World TV Group
New Zealand 33 Television
Indian Newslink
MandarinPages
e2020 Website
Filipino Migrant News
Home Voice
New Zealander Messenger
GekkanNZ
Indian Weekender
Korean Post/Times
Skykiwi Website
Jane Hastings, CEO of NZME will also speak on how NZME is transforming it's business and presenting ideas on how we can work
together to deliver better content and commercial opportunities for audiences and NZAL Established Member Baden Ngan Kee,
General Manager Merchandise of Foodstuffs North Island will share his insights on how best to communicate with Asian customers.
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NZAL Asian Media organisations attending will have information stands for guests to communicate directly with each media
representative.
Time ­ 5:30pm­8:00pm (main session of speakers from 6­7pm will be preceded by networking over refreshments and
canapes)
Venue ­ twentyone, SKYCITY Auckland, Level 3, Cnr of Federal and Victoria Streets, Auckland
RSVP ­ by Friday 12th June 2015 to Karinia Lee, GM, NZAL
Cost ­ For those who are not NZAL members, sponsors or corporate members is $50.00 per person
Food Safety "How best to communicate food safety issues to
Asian customers"
Wednesday 29th July 2015
5:30­7:30pm
EY, 2 Takutai Square, Britomart, Auckland
Co­hosted by EY and Fonterra this session will address best means of
communication.
Attendance is by invitation only ­ contact Karinia Lee for further information
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NZAL Mentoring Update
Kerry Prendergast (above image left) mentors NZAL Established member May Zhang (above image right) and recently shared their
progress to date and email communication:
Dear May
It was nice to meet you and have the opportunity to learn a little about you and your background. It seems to me that there were three
areas you wanted support with:
1. Governance and breaking into that world
2. Networking, particularly as in your mind English is a second language which puts you at a disadvantage and affects your confidence
3. Confidence raising
We talked about three different ways that you could improve these areas:
Governance ­ The first suggestion was to join a local committee, e.g. at your son’s school. You could either approach the School
Secretary or the Chair of the Board of Trustees and see if there are any opportunities.
Secondly, I offered to connect you to the Perinatal Mental Health New Zealand Trust so I have added the link to their website ­
http://www.pmhnz.org.nz/. If you are interested in joining their board I will connect you once you have had a look and done your due
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diligence.
Confidence ­ You said that you loved sewing and it seems to me that another way of building your confidence and meeting other
people, particularly in an area that you love doing, would be to search on­line to see if there are teaching classes available for you to
join. In fact, it seems from the level of your ability you could also be a teacher, so that is something you could explore.
Financial Networking ­ I suggested that you talk to your immediate line manager and others in senior positions within Westpac. I
have already mentioned it to Sue Foley as I was meeting with her later that afternoon, and she said she would love to help. What you
need to do is to get invited to Westpac events, lunches etc and make sure you go with a colleague so you can walk around with them
and they can introduce you to people. Good one­liners to open conversations are ‘what is your connection’, ‘why have you been
invited to this event’, ‘who do you work for’. The aim is to get them to talk to you, for you to listen and for you to remember when you
meet with them again. It is not about you necessarily talking to them but about you learning to listen and build up a network of people
that you have met at functions.
NZAL Established member and mentor Rodney Wong
with NZAL established member Ronnie Butt.
Ronnie shares the following update on his mentoring journey
with Rodney Wong.
Part of the NZAL Governance Mentoring Program is to get the chance to spend time with someone who has been or still in this
journey. Someone who is experienced in a governance role. Someone who is willing to share his/her experience in this journey. After
our first initial meeting in February, I had the privilege to be invited by my mentor Rodney Wong to his bach at the renowned Tongariro
Lodge for our second meeting. This time we spent a weekend together at the wonderful countryside of Turangi. My family and I were
welcome by Rodney who clearly recognises the importance of family and the many challenges between family and work.
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This time we were able to spend a lot more time together to talk about the role of a director, challenges and also some of the practical
aspects to perform as an effective director. I am gaining valuable advice from Rodney about governance but I also have the chance to
learn more about how he runs his “Family Inc”. It was so nice to have a life coach to show you how you can possibly be a better
husband, father and also a person with the right attitude and making the right choices. This Tongariro weekend experience will remain
a treasured memory.
We also got the chance to find out Rodney is \a pretty good cook……an area which I don’t think I am gifted to match up with.
If you would like to join our timebank and become a mentor, please contact Karinia Lee, GM, NZAL
News
Perpetual Guardian buys My Bucket List
Perpetual Guardian has bought Mai Chen's online wills­making business My Bucket
List.
The largest trustee company in the country is aiming to use technology to bring
wills­making and estate­planning into the modern era by using digital technology to
change the way people make wills.
NZAL Established Member Professor Ang Article ­ Opportunities
abound for NZ in China's 21st century Silk Road project
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We welcome your feedback, input and news you wish to share with NZAL supporters. Mai Chen
Chair ­ NZ Asian Leaders
NZ Asian Leaders Advisory Board Members
Thomas Song ­ Deputy Chair
Frank Cui
Dr Xiaoying Fu
Sameer Handa
Richard Leung
Ming Lim­Pollard
Debbie Sew Hoy
David Tse
Florence Wong
Shane Zhan
Karinia Lee ­ General Manager
WE ACKNOWLEDGE
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