Movers & Shakers

Mike Taylor has joined Research Solutions from Millward Brown NZ, where he was group account director. He has expertise from Millward Brown's Britain and Ireland operations, in ongoing tracking programmes and servicing clients such as General Motors, Safeways, Budweiser and Camelot, the British Lotteries Commission.

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Rotary Down Under (NZ) has appointed Beryl Robinson as manager for New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. She was previously general manager of the Arts Faculty at Auckland University of Technology. Robinson is an Associate Fellow of the NZ Institute of Management.

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Public Trust's Corporate Trustee Services division has made two senior appointments; Ross Bradding and Dennis Church. Both will have a client service and business development role, and be based in Auckland. Bradding joins Corporate Trustee Services from Macquarie New Zealand, where he was consulting for the structured products and alternative investments area. Church was chief manager, Corporate Trust with New Zealand Guardian Trust.

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Mark Williamson has been appointed to the newly created role of energy projects manager for Philips Lighting New Zealand. He previously worked in London as trade marketing manager for Britain's Energy Saving Trust, managing joint venture energy efficiency programmes with energy suppliers and industry.

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Aaron Johnsen has been appointed head of corporate strategy and business improvement at Bank of New Zealand, based in Auckland. Johnsen has worked in strategy and business development roles at Telecom and at Westpac.