Staff

Graeme is a Chartered Accountant with 30 years experience in Finance roles. His career started with 5 years at Deloittes, in the Business Advisory and Corporate Recovery divisions. Graeme has since worked for a variety of industries both privately owned and publicly listed entities. These have included Chubb System & Services, Tourism Holdings Limited and United Gaming.

Jenifer has extensive experience in sponsorship, marketing and partnership management. A 20 plus year career with commercial and sponsorship management roles in media and sport. She leads commercial partnership, business development and fundraising activities for PNZ.

Melissa has a wealth of expertise in project management, stakeholder management, communications, public relations, brand project management.

With a career spanning more than 20 years, Lynette has a wealth of experience in international and national sport event management, strategic and operational campaign planning and delivery for the New Zealand Paralympics teams and High Performance Sport Management.

Leilani provides planning, management, and support for identified PNZ core deliverables that have an impact across the whole organisation. She has a pivotal role in supporting the PNZ Board and related Committees, the CEO and Senior Leadership Team (SLT), and wider PNZ Team with project, governance, and administration support.

Kristin Farrell is the Senior Manager of Sport and Pathways at Paralympics New Zealand (PNZ).

Sacha Wright is the Games Campaign and Sports Co-ordinator at Paralympics New Zealand (PNZ).

Marianne Loh is the Para Sport Community Manager at Paralympics New Zealand (PNZ) and is responsible for driving national and regional collaboration to achieve organisational role clarity, strategic alignment, and capitalise on shared expertise to improve operating approaches and deliver on shared initiatives that strengthen, align and enhance community Para sport outcomes across New Zealand.

Dale provides strategic advice and operational support to the development of Para Sport Performance Pathways strategies and programmes within PNZ and PNZ member organisations. A key outcome is to develop and improve the effectiveness of the performance pathways in Para sport to successfully identify, develop, support and progress Para athletes to achieve medal winning performances at international events and Paralympic Games.

Kasey is the PNZ Education Lead and leads the implementation of the findings from the 2022 pilot of the Seeing is Believing project to develop the PNZ Education Programme. This programme aims to change perceptions of disability through the lens of Paralympians, Para athletes and the Paralympic Movement.

Rachel will lead initiatives to grow Paralympics New Zealand and the NZ Paralympic Team brand awareness. Her role includes deepening the engagement of PNZ supporters and attracting new supporters, promoting participation in Para sport, promoting PNZ as a charity and maximising commercial outcomes.

In 2021, Rachel contracted to PNZ leading the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games marketing campaign including development of the ‘One Team, One Spirit’ brand positioning.

Victoria’s focus is on the development and roll out of resources and launch initiatives for Strengthen & Adapt projects and new PNZ brand assets.

Steve has more than 25 years of experience working in sport, media and communications. He leads on implementing agreed engagement plans with key PNZ stakeholders, that support core service delivery across the organisation. The role also entails leading on communications and media related activity, that support stakeholder engagement, contributing to the delivery of strategic outcomes within the PNZ Strategic Plan.  

Jack manages the PNZ website and crafts content for PNZ’s social media channels. From publishing articles, creating Instagram and Facebook posts, to photo and video capture of our events, initiatives and athletes. Jack collaborates with the wider PNZ team to build and maintain a digital strategy to inform and interact with the Paralympics New Zealand community and further build our audience.

Brendon leads and manages the Para Cycling Programme, establishing and executing the processes inherent to delivering fully optimised high performance campaigns. Brendon has a wealth of experience having been involved in both Olympic and Paralympic Track Cycling for over 22 years. Brendon previously held the role of Para Cycling Program Manager/Head Coach for PNZ from 2009 – 2015.

Damian is highly respected in high performance sport having worked in the sector for more than eight years, completing his PhD research as part of his role with the Cycling New Zealand track programme. He has been coaching athletes across a variety of sports since the late 90’s, with an emphasis in all disciplines of cycling in particular track sprint cycling.

Jack is responsible for identifying and developing talented Para cyclists who have the potential to represent New Zealand on the world stage by working closely with the Para cycling high performance team. He works with regional coaches and clubs to provide coaching and support to Para cyclists at all levels.

Paralympian #148 Michael Johnson leads and manages the PNZ Shooting Para Sport Programme as PNZ Shooting Para Sport Lead. Michael supports the development of the Shooting Para sport strategy and engage with necessary stakeholders required to assist in the implementation of the strategy and scope the possibility of integration of Shooting Para sport into the New Zealand Shooting Federation.