Excellence in CARE • SEPTEMBER 2018 .15 organisations. He is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Directors. Before entering the consulting world, Graeme was a senior executive in roles covering a wide range of sectors. Among other positions, Graeme has held roles as Deputy Chief Executive of the Housing Corporation of NZ, the Chief Executive of the Waikato Regional Council and the Chief Executive of Hutt Valley Health Corporation Ltd (a Crown Health Enterprise). Graeme Nahkies Sponsored by Graeme Nahkies is a director and co-founder of BoardWorks International – a specialist consulting company formed in 1997 to assist governing boards to provide effective governance-level leadership to their organisations. Since that time Graeme has worked exclusively in support of governing bodies across a very diverse range of organisations and sectors, mostly in New Zealand but also in Australia and the US. Graeme has been a member of a wide range of boards himself, often as chair. His board appointments span commercial enterprises, Crown entities and not-for-profit Hon Jenny Salesa Hon Jenny Salesa is New Zealand’s first Tongan-born, Tongan-speaking Member of Parliament and the first Tongan-born Cabinet Minister of the Crown. In 2014, she was elected as the Member of Parliament for Manukau East, then re-elected in 2017. Following her re-election, Jenny was sworn into Cabinet as a Minister of the Crown with portfolio responsibilities for Building and Construction and Ethnic Communities, and with Associate Minister responsibilities for Education, Health, Housing and Urban Development. As the local MP for Manukau East, Jenny has been at the forefront of confronting housing issues. In 2016, she highlighted the plight of Auckland’s ‘hidden homeless’, which influenced the political agenda considerably. While this has been her immediate focus at a local level, she has also spent her first term as an MP concentrating on helping to develop policies on education, skills and training, and health. Jenny came to Parliament with over 20 years’ public sector experience, having worked across the breadth of the public service. This includes being a project manager at the Ministry of Health, a senior policy analyst at the Ministry for Pacific Island Affairs, and Principal Advisor (Pacific) at the Tertiary Education Commission. Jenny also spent time living in Michigan, America, where she worked as a policy advisor for the National Vaccine Advisory Committee, and then as a health specialist with the Early Childhood Investment Corporation. She graduated from the University of Auckland with a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws. Jenny divides her time between Wellington and Auckland, where her husband, University of Auckland Associate Professor Toeolesulusulu Damon Salesa, and two children are based. Luke Williams Luke Williams is a senior manager at Ernst & Young. For the past 10 years, Luke has held government and consulting advisory roles in the health system. At the Ministry of Health, he was responsible for leading key parts of the annual Crown budget process. As a consultant, he has worked on a significant number of health policy, strategy and performance improvement projects across Australia and New Zealand.