Movers & Shakers

Adrienne Olsen has become Bartercard New Zealand's Wellington regional manager. She is a former American Express corporate sales manager.

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Jane Gold has been appointed marketing manager for AT&T Australia and New Zealand. She has worked previously with Orange UK and Hutchison Telecoms Australia.

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Orchid Atimalala joins engineering and environmental management company URS New Zealand as a senior planner. Also new are air quality specialist Rhys Kevern and water quality scientist Meenal Rana.

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Stephen Gordon has taken the new role of principal consultant of Certus Consulting. He has worked in Britain and South Africa as well as New Zealand.

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Geoff Scowcroft has taken the newly created position of chief financial officer with Briscoe Group. For the past 15 years, he has been working for retailer Woolworths (New Zealand), most recently as financial controller.

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Rosemary Wallis and Ed Hamilton have become partners in Baldwin Shelston Waters. Wallis joined the firm in 1999. A barrister and solicitor, she heads the transactions and disputes team in the Auckland office. Hamilton, a barrister and solicitor, joined in 2000. He is a registered patent attorney in New Zealand and Australia.

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Alex Morcom has become medium business marketing manager for Microsoft, and manage those operations across New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, India, China, Taiwan, Korea and Thailand.

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Craig Presland has become chief operating officer of healthAlliance (subs: style correct), the purchasing company set up to provide economies of scale to Counties Manukau and Waitemata District health boards. For the last two years he has been commercial director for Fletcher Building's Steel, South American and distribution divisions.

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Mark Spring has been appointed to the new position of general manager, business process outsourcing, at Datamail in Auckland.

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