Immediate Past President

Mark is Director and Founder of Hot Metal Communications (www.hotmetal.nz) and was previously a founding partner at leading communications agency Ideas Shop. More recently he was Director of Strategic Communications & Media at the Asia New Zealand Foundation. Mark is a respected media strategist with more than 30 years’ experience in communications. He has worked as a journalist on leading newspapers in New Zealand, England and Hong Kong, and in senior communications roles in Hong Kong and New Zealand.