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.

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).

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.

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.