Our people

This is not the first time Colin has led the development of a new medical facility in Hawke’s Bay. He led the development of the Hawke’s Bay Hospital’s renal unit and then the new medical centre on Canning Road.

From experience Colin says there’s lots of moving parts to leading the development of a new healthcare facility. However it’s an incredibly exciting opportunity to build a modern facility from concept through to securing funding, turning the soil and seeing the facility emerging from the ground.

I joined Kaweka Hospital as the Nurse Manager. I am responsible for building and retaining great teams, ensuring patient safety and creating efficient and effective systems of work whilst always looking to improve. Prior to joining Kaweka Hospital’s leadership team I was the Associate Clinical Nurse Manager at the Hawke’s Bay Fallen Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital, where I worked for 18 years.

I am passionate about continuously seeking improvements within the perioperative setting to enhance both patient and staff experiences.

I am the Hospital’s Manager and am responsible for the governance, recruitment, and procurement at Kaweka Hospital. Prior to joining Kaweka Hospital’s leadership team, I worked at the Hawkes Bay DHB for 15 years in several management roles.

These senior leadership roles have enabled me to live my passion for building strong, professional, and successful teams.

I believe that a cohesive, strong, and fun team is integral to a successful outcome for our staff and our patients.

Before joining Kaweka, I worked in Auckland while obtaining my Chartered Accountancy qualification before making the move to the United Kingdom where I worked in a finance manager role at a tech & wellbeing start-up.

My focus is on ensuring financial policies and procedures are established with supportive technology and systems, to implement and monitor operational budgets and to assist with obtaining funding for each stage of the build and to ensure there is careful cashflow planning and monitoring for Kaweka to meet financial objectives.

I am really excited about being an integral part of building the foundations of Kaweka Hospital and to work and learn alongside a team of highly experienced team members to to enable their vision to be leaders in private healthcare for the Hawke’s Bay region and New Zealand.