From left Dr Phil Bretherton, Alison Pavlovich, Guy Harding, and Sally Wolfenden-Gull.
EIT’s School of Business will be starting the academic year with four new lecturers in its highly-qualified teaching line-up.
Head of school Dr Frina Albertyn is very pleased with the new staff.
“Others have decided to opt for a limited tenure, to travel the world or to explore new career directions,” she says, “and we have managed to employ some very high calibre people to fill the gaps.”
A part-time researcher based at the School of Business for the last year, Dr Phil Bretherton will teach the Bachelor of Business Studies’ International Business Entrepreneurship and Innovation course.
After gaining a Master of Science, Phil worked in a variety of senior roles – primarily in the computer industry in England and then in academic positions at tertiary institutions in New Zealand and Australia.
Completing his PhD on the New Zealand wine industry while heading Unitec’s School Management, he moved to Australia’s Northern Territory to take up the position of Professor of Organisational Performance and Head of School of Law and Business at Charles Darwin University. In Queensland, he was Head of Business Research at CQ University.
Originally from Yorkshire, Phil moved to New Zealand to purchase a vineyard and while he hasn’t pursued that dream he continues to nurture an interest in wine.
Senior lecturer in management accounting Guy Harding was an engineer in the RNZAF before studying business at Canterbury University. Since moving to Hawke’s Bay in 2001, he has worked in a variety of business and accounting roles at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Wattie’s, Hawke’s Bay District Health Board, Amcor Kiwi Packaging and Tumu ITM.
The father of four enjoys tramping, off-road running, mountain biking, children’s sports and reading good books.
Teaching tax and advanced financial accounting – a high-level course in EIT’s Bachelor of Business Studies – Alison Pavlovich has spent most of her career in public practice and corporate environments, specialising in taxation. She has worked in Auckland, London and more recently in Hawke’s Bay.
Alison has bachelor degrees in commerce and law and is studying for a Master of Laws with a particular interest in public law. A practising chartered accountant, she is enrolled as a barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand.
The mother of three young children is very involved in various community groups including the Hawke’s Bay Community Law Centre, Project K and Maraekakaho School’s Board of Trustees.
Sally Wolfenden-Gull brings a wealth of international marketing experience to her role as marketing lecturer that started off in the leisure industry and progressed to marketing agencies and then into media publishing.
Sally has an MBA from the University of Glasgow and, having worked for the UK’s leading media publisher Associated Newspapers Ltd, has marketing experience encompassing business to business, business to consumer, customer relationship management, direct database, digital and online marketing.
As a qualified netball umpire, she can regularly be seen during the season at the Napier and Hastings netball centres and Pettigrew Green Arena.