2011

Professor Bob Elliott (1934 – 2020) was the Medical Director of Living Cell Technologies, which develops cell-based products to treat life threatening human diseases.

He was a world leader in the treatment of diabetes and auto-immune related research. In particular, he pioneered the live saving breakthrough transplantation of insulin-producing pig cells into humans to treat type-1 diabetes.

His method for testing for Cystic Fibrosis in infants has been internationally adopted and in 1999, he was awarded a Companion of the New Zealand order of Merit. 

Lord Charles Denman contributed to New Zealand for more than 40 years, by working behind the scenes to open doors into the UK and Middle East for some of New Zealand’s biggest and most successful companies.  He served as a Board member of NMA, a British based company that financed farmers and as a Director of Challenge, which later merged to become Fletcher Challenge.

Throughout his career, he has worked alongside some of New Zealand’s most successful business leaders, including Sir Ron Trotter and Malcolm McConnell. Lord Charles was an Adviser on Middle Eastern affairs to the UK Prime Minister Edward Heath and appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Francis.

Michael Boustridge is CEO and President of CIBER AG and Advisor of AnyPresence. Previously, he was Chief Executive of BT Group’s Asia Pacific region, as well as President of BT USA and Canada. He has extensive global experience in the IT services sector and a successful track record of delivering operational results at a billion dollar scale. A proud Kiwi, Michael uses every opportunity, and every contact, to promote New Zealand, specifically its agility, innovation and leading edge technical and software development skills.