People on the move

Jane Stewart has become strategic planning director for Retail Media Group. She has an agency and TV background, with 12 years in advertising agencies, and came from TVNZ where she was group sales manager. She will market the group's new B-Buys.com website and other new products to agencies and clients.

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Leigh Jackson will head the fieldForce business group of internet integrator, gen-i Ltd, formerly Wang New Zealand. He has been in IT services for 23 years, the last 18 years with gen-i.

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Dr Brett Collins has become associate professor in marketing at Auckland University of Technology. He has had 15 years' teaching experience at universities and educational institutions in New Zealand and Australia, and has also consulted to major organisations. For the last five years he has taught marketing management, contemporary issues and advanced marketing on executive and postgraduate programmes at Auckland University's school of business and economics.

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Scott Sanders is the managing director of Canterbury's new $100 million Terrace Downs Gold Resort in the Rakaia Valley. He has a background in company management in New Zealand, Europe and Australia.

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Lee Boell has joined Simpl Group as senior consultant. He has had 20 years in IT and business consulting here and overseas.

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Sheraton Auckland Hotel & Towers' new general manager, Boyd Williams, has worked with Sheraton as a financial controller for almost 20 years in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Thailand.

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Nick Ridling is running Shotover Jet Group's new Auckland office as group sales manager. He has had 13 years in sales and marketing and has worked for some of New Zealand's major tourism companies in Sydney, London and Los Angeles.

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Andrew Hitchfield has joined Emphone Ltd as general manager. He was Auckland sales manager with Cogent Communications Ltd and was previously corporate accounts manager for Blue Star Office Technology. He has also been a university lecturer and worked with a property development company in Osaka.

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Geoff Manners is joining Rotorua-based Chandler Fraser Keating Ltd as a senior consultant.