Our People
Board Members
Frank Bloomfield
Board Chair
Professor Frank Bloomfield is the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) for Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland. He is also Professor of neonatology and a former consultant neonatologist at Auckland City Hospital. He was previously Director of the Liggins Institute and President of the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand.
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John Fraser
Board Member
Professor John Fraser is the former Dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences at Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland. His groundbreaking research in molecular aspects of the immune response resulted in the now widely accepted model of how superantigens work. He was the inaugural Wellcome Trust (UK) Senior Fellow in Medical Science (1992). John holds a Personal Chair in Molecular Medicine and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
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Tony McNaught
Board Member
Tony McNaught has over 30 years' experience in local and international mergers and acquisitions and led the national corporate finance division for KPMG until 2014. He now consults through his own firm, Lake Road Corporate Finance.
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Riria Te Kanawa
Board Member
Riria (Missy) Te Kanawa (Ngāti Maniapoto, Tainui-o-Tainui, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Koata, Ngāti Rarua, Ngāti Toa) is a Partner and National Industry Lead - Māori at KPMG New Zealand. She is an experienced strategist, governor and lead author of KPMG’s Maui Rau report series on how Māori entities and businesses can advance prosperity for their people.
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John Villiger
Board Member
John Villiger holds a PhD in neuroscience and spent 25 years in the pharmaceutical industry working predominantly in drug development. He was co-founder of the Medicines Company in the USA and is currently an Honorary Associate Professor at the Centre for Brain Research, University of Auckland.
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Mark Gregory
Board Member
Mark is the Poumatua Whakahaere, Kaitiaki Rēhitatanga Chief Operating Officer and Registrar at the University of Auckland. He has over 25 years of experience in university operations and strategy across Australia and the United States. He most recently held the role of Vice President Corporate and Chief Operating Officer at Flinders University in Adelaide, where he worked from 2017 until this year.
His career includes senior leadership roles at the University of Adelaide and Portland State University in Oregon, following an early career in technology and software start-ups in his hometown of Chicago. He holds an MBA and undergraduate degrees in computer science and mathematics, as well as in psychology.