Board of Directors
The Dispute Resolution Services Ltd. Board of Directors are:
Peter Blades (Chair)
Peter Blades (Chair)
Peter Blades has over 35 years of board and senior management experience. In recent years he has held several CEO positions and has a finance and accounting background and has had experience in a wide range of industry sectors. In recent years he has been heavily involved in reform processes ranging over a number of industries including electricity, gas, health and telecommunications.
He has been involved in a diverse range of consulting assignments, several performance enhancing exercises and developed stakeholder profiling (strategic alignment) methodology.
Mr Blades has an extensive record of Board involvement and currently sits on a number of boards, including as Director of the Wellington Regional Council Holding Co Ltd (NZ) and is a Fellow of the both the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Directors.
Dr Marie Bismark
Dr Marie Bismark is a health lawyer who specialises in patients’ rights and complaints resolution. She holds academic appointments with the University of Otago and the University of Melbourne, and is a Consultant with a Wellington law firm.
Marie has served on the NZ Law Society Health Law Committee, the ACC Board of Directors, the Bioethics Council, and the Ministerial Advisory Panel on Veterans’ Health. She is currently a Member of the Family Planning Council and a Director of the Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Young People, Technology and Wellbeing.
She has previously worked as a doctor in a number of hospitals and served as a legal advisor to the Health and Disability Commissioner. In 2004-2005 Marie completed a Harkness Fellowship in Healthcare Policy at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Anita Chan
Anita Chan is a specialist family law barrister. Her practice is in complex relationship property and child law cases.
Anita is a former Chair of the Family Law Section of the New Zealand Law Society. She is a Fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (London). She was elected as a Governor of the Academy in 2008, and presently serves as its Parliamentarian.
Anita has presented at numerous national and international family law conferences including in Seoul, Brisbane, Shanghai, Adelaide, Capetown and Vancouver. She is a regular guest lecturer at the University of Otago.
She was a foundation director of the New Zealand Law Society Continuing Legal Education Board, and a director of ChildFund (New Zealand).
Tupara Morrison
Tupara is of Te Arawa descent – Ngati Whakaue, Ngati Hurungaterangi and Ngati Pukaki.
Tupara is a Massey University business studies graduate, Chartered Accountant, and member of the New Zealand Institute of Directors. He is a ministerial appointment to Lakes District Health Board and chairs the Finance and Audit Committee. He is a trustee of Te Kotahitanga o Ngati Whakaue Assets Trust, the receiving entity of the CNI Collective Treaty Settlement for Ngati Whakaue, and a director of CNI Iwi Holdings Limited. He is also a director of Te Puia – the New Zealand Maori Arts and Crafts Institute in Rotorua, and the Apostolic Training Centre in Hamilton.
Tupara owns and operates a business consultancy company providing governance and business management services to a variety of clients across New Zealand.
John Spencer
John Spencer is Chairman of Tainui Group Holdings Limited, KiwiRail Limited, and WEL Networks Ltd. He is a Director of Tower Limited, Dairy NZ Ltd and the Dispute Resolution Services Ltd (DRSL). He is also the Audit Committee Chairman of Tower and Dairy NZ, and Mitre 10 NZ Ltd as an advisor to the Board.
John was the Chief Executive of New Zealand Dairy Group prior to the formation of Fonterra, and has held a number of senior management positions in New Zealand and overseas in various industries. A Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, he was a member of the Accounting Standards Review Board for 9 years.