MIKE FITZGERALD

• Educational Qualifications - BA; CISI (Int)

• Business leader and manager over 25 years in public, commercial and voluntary services, at national and international levels, in multi-cultural settings, and including corporate management and ownership roles in the fields of:

• health and welfare services
• information systems
• public sector structural and systems reform
• innovative technology developments.

• Resource planning and project management involving personal accountability for:

• operating budgets to $45 million
• capital budgets to $100 million
• small groups to large organisations of up to 400 personnel across many disciplines
• buildings and equipment.

• Currently:

• Managing Director of The Compass Group Ltd, a New Zealand based business and management consultancy, covering project development and implementation, and contract negotiation and administration
• Director of Registration Boards Secretariat Ltd, a New Zealand company providing comprehensive administration services to several Government appointed boards responsible for regulating various health professionals in commercial and public practice
• Director of Hi-Tech Ventures Ltd, a New Zealand based company concerned with business development and venture capital investment innovative technologies and services

• Previously:

• General Manager of TRITEC, the New Zealand Department of Social Welfare's information technology business unit, responsible for national processing systems for all welfare benefits and pensions
• Assistant Director-General (Information Systems) Department of Social Welfare, responsible for the multi-million dollar development of new national computing systems, security and efficiency gains nation-wide for processing of case files (1 million) welfare benefits and pensions, community service cards, and interdepartmental data sharing programme
• Assistant Commissioner, State Services Commission advising Ministers and chief executives about efficiency and effectiveness of the machinery of government and management systems as part of the New Zealand’s economic and public sector reforms