Background on Inquiry Members
[ Last Updated 12 January 2006 ]
Hugh Rennie CBE, QC
Mr Rennie is a practicing barrister (QC) in commercial and insolvency law and specialist practice in medical, media and aviation law, who lives and works in Wellington.
He is a director of a number of companies encompassing manufacturing, banking, and the media.
He has had wide experience with the operation of a number of educational, cultural, communication and social trusts, as well as medical-related foundations, and a particular interest in communication and the arts.
Don Sollitt
Mr Sollitt is Managing Director and Deputy Chairman of PDL Holdings Limited, a publicly listed Christchurch company, which manufactures and exports electrical and plastic products.
Mr Sollitt has an electrical engineering background and lives in Christchurch. He has been a Council member of the Canterbury Manufacturers' Association for over a decade and has been involved in many trade missions emanating from the Canterbury area to South East Asia and the USA as well as being involved in setting up all the off-shore operations for PDL.
He has extensive experience in company management and operation.
Dr Keith Turner
Dr Turner has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and has 27 years' experience within New Zealand's electricity industry.
He was appointed Director of Power Development at the New Zealand Electricity Department in 1983; Corporate Development Manager at ECNZ when it was formed in 1987; Managing Director, DesignPower, with the Transpower Establishment Board in 1990 following completion of the Stanford Senior Executive programme; General Manager, Generation, at ECNZ at the beginning of 1993. In 1995 he participated in the establishment of Contact Energy during the split of ECNZ.
Dr Turner established his own specialist energy consulting practice in 1996 and was appointed as a Market Surveillance committee member when the New Zealand electricity market began trading in October 1996.
He was appointed to the Electricity Industry Restructuring Task Force set up by the Government this year to develop a blueprint for electricity industry structural reform.
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