>> Our Values
- Respect for wool growers, wool manufacturers, and wool retailers
- To embrace and strengthen the successful operations in the wool industry
- To operate on the basis that everything does not have to be owned and controlled to be encouraged and supported
Our People
Wool Equities Limited will seek out wool business people who are effective in their sectors of the wool industry. Where opportunities exist, we will partner with their businesses to magnify their effectiveness as businesses, and remove the limitations on growth of these highly effective people. Where these businesses are effective without assistance, rather than seeking to compete against them, Wool Equities Limited will refer further business to them where appropriate.
Management and Board of Directors
Clifford Heath, Chairman
Clifford is a Manawatu-based farmer and company director with experience in the farming, electronics, contracting, hospitality, clothing and textile sectors.He is on the Board of Textiles New Zealand. A member of the Minister of Agriculture’s 2010 Wool Taskforce, Clifford also sits on the Single Voices wool industry group.
Peter McPartlin, Director
Peter farms a 2000 acre hill property in Marlborough. He has held positions including Partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers – Management Consulting Services, and various positions in Federated Farmers. He has completed the Oxford University Advanced Management Programme.
Jim Pringle, Director
Jim is a Christchurch-based company director, who formerly farmed an irrigated mixed property in North Otago. He has held positions such as President of North Otago Federated Farmers, Chairman of PPCS Ltd and Ravensdown Fertiliser Cooperative. He is Chairman of the Beef Cow Improvement Group New Zealand Inc and a former President of North Otago Federated Farmers.
Hugh Taylor, Director
Hugh farms an intensive mixed farm in Oxford, North Canterbury which is also a field trial farm for Lincoln University. He is the current vice-President of Romney New Zealand.
Kevin Arscott, Director
Kevin is a consultant on investments, accounting issues, and acquisitions. He has previously held positions as CFO of Gould Holdings and as Special Projects Executive to Pyne Gould Corporation Ltd and CFO for South Eastern Utilities Limited.
Keith Cowan, General Manager
Prior to joining Wool Equities Limited, Keith was Managing Director of wool merchants H Dawson Sons & Co NZ Ltd. He has a long history of involvement with the computing industry including senior management roles at Jade Software Corporation, and prior to that management positions at Cadbury NZ Limited and Fletcher Fishing Limited.
Accountant
Ian Gilbert & Associates
14 Gerald Street
Lincoln 7640
Christchurch
Solicitor
David Lang
Saunders & Co
Level 3
Cambridge Terrace
Christchurch