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Kestrel Personnel

Dave Brunsdon

Dave has a range of interests within the Emergency Management field, including the planning of large-scale multi-agency exercises, rescue engineering and lifelines engineering. He is the National Engineering Lifelines Co-ordinator, and is a Past-President of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering. Read more...

Kristin Hoskin

Kristin's typical clients include the health, utility and governmental organisations, most of whom are members of Civil Defence Emergency Management Groups. As such, they have legislative obligations in declared emergencies. Kristin has worked on developing training programmes in emergency preparedness, developing and facilitating exercises that test emergency plans and organisational relationships, critiquing plans and assisting organisations to improve emergency management components of their operations. Read more...

Sandra Pedersen

Sandra has spent many years focused on making the public aware of what will happen in the event of a major disaster in the Wellington region. This has included education and training, developing emergency response plans for schools and developing and facilitating workshops and practical exercises for schools and businesses. Read more...

Gavin Treadgold

Gavin was introduced to emergency management as a Civil Defence volunteer with Environment Canterbury. Over time, he progressed from a career in Information Technology to Risk and Emergency Management. In 2001 he completed a Graduate Diploma in Emergency Services Management with Distinction from Massey University. Read more...

Consultants

Karen Stephens

Over the last eight years Karen's work in crisis management, business continuity and emergency management has seen her managing assignments in the US, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Her extensive experience includes working with major corporations, large Government departments and local government. Read more...