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Tracy Hayson
As Managing Director and owner of Hayson Knell, Tracy brings over 20 years’ experience building a successful Tauranga-based planning consultancy into a nationally respected firm.
Alongside her business leadership, Tracy is an accredited RMA Commissioner and brings broad governance experience, including the NZ Planning Institute’s BOP branch and the Otūmoetai Intermediate Board of Trustees.
Rochelle Lockley
Rochelle is the General Manager Communications for Port of Tauranga Limited, New Zealand’s largest port, joining the executive team in September 2020. Before that she spent 15 years operating her own strategic communications consultancy.
A former journalist, she has worked in communications in London, New York, Sydney, Auckland and Tauranga over the past 30 years.
Rachel Withington
Rachel is an Associate in the Property and Commercial team at Holland Beckett. With more than a decade of legal experience in Tauranga, she has advised clients locally and nationally on a wide range of matters.
Rachel is passionate about supporting the growth of the Tauranga region and the success of its business community.
Morgan Wynniatt
Morgan brings experience from both advisory and industry roles, including senior positions at BDO and financial accounting work with Seeka.
Her focus is on tax planning, financial reporting, and advisory support, with a particular interest in international tax and more complex structures. She works with clients across agribusiness, property, manufacturing, and Māori corporations.
Chad Wallace
Chad specialises in all things property: subdivisions, developments, horticulture and farm sales, retirement villages, and local authority work. He also acts for one of New Zealand’s largest group home builders, so he’s deeply familiar with the real-world pressures of getting deals over the line.
He helps clients untangle complexity, weigh up risks, and make sure what’s been agreed is actually reflected on paper.
Brook Carrington
Brook is a Pre-Construction Manager at Livingstone Building. With over 20 years’ experience in the commercial construction sector, Brook brings proven leadership, strategic thinking, and practical problem-solving skills.
His career has been built around managing complex projects, working alongside diverse stakeholder groups, and delivering outcomes that balance vision with practicality.
Stevan Chand
Treasurer
Stevan is a Chartered Accountant and strategic business advisor with extensive experience in external audit, business advisory, and commercial leadership across Fiji and New Zealand.
As a Partner at PKF Tauranga, he provides business coaching and strategic support, virtual CFO services, budgeting, forecasting and cashflow management, and tax compliance and planning.
Jamie Lunam
Vice Chair
Jamie has been a local SME business leader across several organisations and industries in the Bay of Plenty and Waikato for 15 years, with expertise predominantly in the primary and manufacturing sectors.
Being an active part of Chamber activities over the years, including head judge for the Tauranga Business Awards, has given Jamie great insight into the wider business ecosystem in Tauranga.
Debbie Ireland
Chair
For the past 16 years, Debbie has grown her Tauranga-based business Digital Workplace Results (formerly ShareThePoint Ltd), a premier Microsoft 365 Training Provider.
She enables businesses to understand that real change is achieved by empowering people and using technology as an enabling tool. Debbie is well known for “making things happen”, and her experience as a small business owner brings valued perspective.
