CDC

Dr Garth Carnaby - Chair

Dr Garth Carnaby runs his own company providing governance, strategic advice, consultancy, and research services in the business development, science, food and agriculture fields. His other current appointments include: Marsden Fund (chair); NZ Synchrotron Co Ltd (chair); Australian Synchrotron Company Ltd (director); “Leveraging NZ’s Natural Resources” Foundation of Research, Science & Technology panel (chair); Royal Society of New Zealand (president); The Institute of Environmental Science and Research Ltd (deputy chair); Manchester University (visiting professor); and Lincoln University (“entrepreneur in residence”).

A Fellow of the Royal Society of NZ since 1992, Garth holds doctorates from Leeds, New South Wales and De Montfort Universities. He has received numerous peer initiated medals and awards from professional societies in various countries, and was awarded MNZM in the 2006 Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Mayor Bob Parker

Christchurch-born Bob Parker has had a very successful and well-documented broadcasting career.  After some years in Wellington and later, Auckland, he returned to Christchurch 16 years ago, living for most of that time in Akaroa.  Bob and Joanna now live in a Central City apartment.

For the past 14 years, Bob has immersed himself in local body politics, first by becoming a member of the Banks Peninsula District Council and later, serving two terms as the District’s Mayor. Bob has been a Christchurch City Councillor since 2006, after successfully leading the amalgamation of the Banks Peninsula District and the City Council.  He was elected Mayor of Christchurch in 2007.

Cr Bob Shearing

Bob Shearing is in his second term as a Christchurch City Councillor after three terms as a Riccarton Wigram Community Board Member. While retaining his position on the CDC Board, this term he was also appointed to Christchurch City Holdings Ltd. Away from Council, Bob has maintained his directorship with the company he set up more than 30 years ago, R A Shearing Contractors Ltd, a earthmoving and paving company. In the local community, Bob is a member of the Wigram Airforce Museum Trust Board, chairs a number of community trusts and is involved in a wide range of other organisations.

Cr Gail Sheriff JP

Gail Sheriff is a Christchurch City Councillor and company director. A city councillor for 13 years, Gail’s experience on a range of committees and issues includes chairing resource consent hearings, and the Audit and Risk committee.
Gail has a range of governance roles. She is a Director of Orion Group New Zealand, including the Audit and Risk committee for Orion and was a director of Christchurch International Airport for seven years. Gail is also a Justice of the Peace.

Cameron Moore

Cameron Moore is a Christchurch businessman with extensive business networks through membership and leadership of employer and manufacturer groups. He is a Director of Frontier Innovations Ltd, CORE Education Ltd, Manufacturing Growth Solutions Ltd, Mancan Foundation Ltd and Torrens Enterprises Ltd.

Peter Barrowclough

Peter Barrowclough is the Chief Executive at Lincoln Ventures Ltd.  He is a Director of the Canterbury Economic Development Fund and Frontier Innovations Ltd.

Peter's former roles include: Research and Development Manager for PGG Wrightson Seeds Ltd; General Manager Business Development at Crop and Food Research; Business Incubator Development Manager at Industry NZ (now NZTE) where he was instrumental in establishing a business incubator network in NZ; Manager of CropSeed, Crop and Food Research's cultivar commercialisation unit; Founder of Southern Wasabi Ltd the first company to pioneer exports of wasabi from NZ to Japan; and export manager for D M Palmer Ltd - a produce exporter based in Auckland.  He has an honours degree in Horticultural Science from Lincoln University.

Peter is passionate about economic development and the role of commercialising science and technology to increase the nation's wealth.  Agriculture is in his blood and he lives on a small lifestyle block just outside the city.

Grant Ryan

Grant Ryan is Chief Executive of ProjectGarlic Ltd. Previously he co-founded GlobalBrain.net in 1998 which is now S.L.I. Systems. He led GlobalBrain until April 2000 when it was purchased by NBCi (the 7th most visited web site in the US at the time). He also founded RealContacts and Eurekster.

Grant has been on the board of the New Zealand Government's $100 million Venture Investment Fund (VIF) and $430 million Foundation for Research Science and Technology. He has a degree in mechanical engineering and a PhD in ecological economics from the University of Canterbury.