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Celebrate the year’s end with fellow members and bring your questions to our Ask Me Anything panel.
Join us in Invercargill for a relaxed and engaging evening to celebrate the end of the year with your fellow IoD members. Enjoy drinks, nibbles and great conversation as we reflect on 2025 and look ahead to 2026.
As part of the event, we’ll host an Ask Me Anything (AMA) panel session with local senior directors Jeff Grant, Sarah Brown and Prue Halstead. This is your chance to ask candid questions on governance challenges, director careers, and lessons learned around the board table.
Whether you're an emerging director or a seasoned board member, this is a great opportunity to connect with others in the IoD community, share insights, and finish the year on a high note.
IoD members – please remember to log in to receive complimentary attendance at this event.
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Jeff has been in governance roles full-time for 24 years with previous roles including a Director for SBS Bank, Finance Now, PF2050, Southern Institute of Technology and Chairman of Mt Linton Station, OSPRI Ltd, AgResearch, and Milford Sound Tourism. In July 2018, Jeff was seconded to the New Zealand meat industry for two years and was based at NZ House in London to oversee the Brexit EU28 and UK Free Trade Agreement process on behalf of NZ Red Meat Industry. For eight years until 2018, Jeff was the Independent Chair of Southland Shared Services. Jeff is an External Appointee at Invercargill City Council, responsible for guiding the organisation through its response to a recent Government Review. He holds directorships at Lakeland Wanaka, Great South, and Thriving Southland and is a member of the Institute of Directors.
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Sarah is a former commercial lawyer who is now a professional director with extensive governance experience as a director, chair, and committee chair. Sarah is currently a director of Blue Sky Meats and a former director of SBS Bank and PGG Wrightson Ltd. She brings a wealth of cross-sector experience at multiple organisational levels, and we are delighted to have her represent the Southern region.
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Prue Halstead has governance and leadership experience across a diverse range of industries, as well as in investment and not-for-profit sectors. She has served on a number of boards and advisory groups, bringing expertise in customer experience, technology and stakeholder engagement.
She is the Executive Officer of Invest South with a mandate to invest in high growth businesses in the Southern region, is a director of SBS Group, a Trustee of Technology Queenstown, an Executive Committee member of Angel Association New Zealand and has been a founding board member of both Mainland Angel Investors and COIN South.
Should you have any dietary, mobility, cultural or other requirements, you can let us know on the registration form.
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Michelle Branford
Otago Southland Branch Manager
+64 20 4183 5664
michelle.branford@iod.org.nz
The Otago Southland Branch acknowledges the generous support of
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Members — $0.00
Non-members — $25.00
