Events

Our guest speaker, Dr David Gaimster is the Chief Executive of our Auckland War Memorial Museum.  David is an Englishman who came to Auckland in 2017 from his six-year role as director of The Hunterian at the University of Glasgow, the oldest museum in Scotland.  His career spans 30 years of senior roles in museums and cultural heritage institutions. 

David has organised several major international exhibitions that have also toured internationally, including Pottery in the Making (Museum of Mankind, London, 1997) and Making History: Antiquaries in Britain 1707-2007 (Royal Academy, London, 2007).

Dr  Gaimster has published extensively on medieval to early modern European archaeology, museum collections and on international cultural property policy. 

David will be accompanied on his visit to us by Jane Sheetz, Head of Development at the Museum

Robin is a serial entrepreneur with extensive start-up; investment and management experience in NZ, Asia and USA. He was Founder and Lead Investor of the Real Value Weekly newspaper; the NZ Advertiser; and Club-Card (a private credit-card company acquired by the Bank of NZ), plus numerous other business adventures, before forming Phoenix Management; a Venture Management Company in 1994. From 1994 to 2004 Phoenix Management raised over $100M for NZ start-ups in the New Energy and Biotech industries which exited by either IPO or trade sale. Robin divested his venture management interests in 2004 and since then has focused on decentralised technology initiatives. He is currently Executive Chairman and Lead Investor of DN 3010 Ltd, a NZ software company which owns the SYLO & Seekers brands, that build decentralised communications; wallets and NFT’s focused on blockchain and Web3 technologies.

Roger became Ports of Auckland's Chief Executive Officer in March 2022.
Before joining Ports of Auckland, Roger was CEO of Lyttelton Port Company for two years.
Ports of Auckland is New Zealand's major import port processing more than 850K TEU, 4.6m
tonnes of general cargo and 240K cars per annum. Prior to LPC Roger worked for Air
New Zealand for 6.5 years. His last role at Air New Zealand was Group General
Manager Airports, in which he managed all ground handling and lounge operations at 55
airports around the globe, covering 2,800 staff who handle 18 million passengers annually.
He has held several senior leadership roles with Goodman Fielder, including
Managing Director of Quality Bakers – New Zealand. He holds an MBA, a Masters of
Business in Integrated Logistics Management, as well as Bachelor Degrees in Economics and
Arts.

It's time for the big race and our Melbourne Cup event is again at Sheila and Tom's place – even though Sheila will be away!

Please note that this time the event is NOT catered - so do bring plate and a bottle.

ROTARY CHRISTMAS CHEER

As mentioned at the meeting on 29 November 2022, your fellowship committee is delighted to invite you to share some festive cheer from 5.30pm to 7.30pm on Thursday 8 December 2022.  The details are:

DATE | Thursday 8 December 2022

TIME | 5.30pm to 7.30pm

VENUE | Atrium Bar at the Grand Millennium Hotel

FORMAT | Platters and pizzas, with a cash bar for drinks

COST | James Billing and his team are kindly providing the platters and pizzas at no cost, so members and guests only need to pay for drinks at the bar. THANK YOU SO MUCH TO JAMES AND HIS TEAM! Please register in the normal way so we can advise the hotel of numbers.

SEE YOU THERE!!!

Our speaker is Peter Macky who has an enduring interest in European history – with an emphasis on Poland and Ukraine. He says they get too little attention, given their pivotal roles in the often-titanic struggle between Europe's west and east. He is about to publish "Mr Putin's War in Ukraine: As it Evolved": a 280-page, 90,000-word, commentary in 52 chapters.
 
Peter visited Ukraine in September 2022, including Kyiv and Lviv. Over 10 days, he conducted 18 interviews with a range of people, from a General who took part in the defence of Kyiv early in the war, to families caught up in the maelstrom of Russia's invasion, who lost family, friends, and property. Some of his interviews have been published in New Zealand publications, including the NZ Herald.