Governance and Staff
Bevan Wallace
Chair and Independent Trustee
Bevan Wallace is Executive Director of Morgan Wallace, business strategists.
His career spans investment banking, stockbroking, funds management and financial consultancy.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Financial Professionals, New Zealand (Inc), a Chartered member of the Institute of Directors and a member of the Law and Economics Association of New Zealand (Inc.).
Bevan is Chairman of Efficient Market Services Limited, the operator of USX, the Unlisted Securities Exchange. He is a former Chartered Accountant and was a Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Blis Technologies Limited.
Bevan holds a Master of Commerce with First Class Honours in Economics and Accountancy (University of Canterbury), 1981.
Shelley Payne
Independent Trustee
Shelley is a parent and has been involved with IHC for many years. She was a previous Vice-President of IHC. Shelley is currently an owner and director of Trinity Wharf Hotel in Tauranga. She was a director of IDEA Services and is the Chairperson and Trustee of a community-based vocational service in Tauranga.
Lindsay Jackson
Independent Trustee
Lindsay Jackson has had over 30 years of Executive Recruitment and managing large scale staff transfer processes for the public, private and NGO sectors. She has also been a Director and owner of several national search and selection consultancies and a start-up IT product development company. After the sale of the last business she was involved in, Lindsay is now undertaking consulting projects utilising her experience.
Anton Douglas
IHC-appointed Trustee
Anton has had 25 years local and international experience across investment banking and asset management. Prior to moving back to New Zealand in 2017 he was based in Asia and the US where he was a Managing Director and the Chief Investment Officer for Credit Suisse Asset Management’s EM credit opportunity and special situations fund. Anton is a member of the Institute of Directors and holds advisory board roles with two early stage companies in New Zealand. Anton has a school-aged son with intellectual disability and he and his family have been involved in the disability support community in New Zealand and the US. Anton holds a Bachelors Degree in Finance from Otago University.
Janine Stewart
IHC-appointed Trustee
Janine Stewart is currently a General Manager for IHC, responsible for IHC’s charitable programmes including advocacy, fundraising, volunteering, membership, library and information services. Janine has been involved with the disability sector for over 35 years and has worked with IHC for 25 years in a number of roles including being the Director of Advocacy and General Manager of Services. Janine is a Trustee of the Personal Advocacy Trust, a Board Member for the New Zealand Disability Providers Network and Co-Chair of the New Zealand Carers Alliance.
Larna Harding
Executive Director
Larna joined the IHC Programmes team in 2009 and began working with the IHC Foundation in 2016.
During this time she has developed a broad understanding of the issues and challenges faced by the disability sector, and of the work of other disability organisations and government agencies.