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Markerita (Meg) Poutasi has joined Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand as national director, Pacific health.
Until recently, Ms Poutasi was chief of strategy at the then Auckland DHB and its successor, and led the northern regional approach to the Pacific health response to COVID-19.
She is a former chief executive of the Pacific Cooperation Foundation. Te Whatu Ora chief executive Fepulea’i Margie Apa says Ms Poutasi was instrumental in delivering new equity approaches to planned care in Auckland.
Gerardine Clifford-Lidstone formerly held the interim national director role.
Orion Health’s chief executive of 30 years, Ian McCrae, is passing the reins to Brad Porter and becoming executive director later this month.
Mr Porter will join Orion – a health IT technology firm offering population health and precision medicine solutions – from Fisher & Paykel Healthcare, where he helped to lead the 1300-person global sales team.
He worked for KPMG before moving to London for an investment monitoring role.
In a media release, Mr McCrae says Mr Porter is his son-in-law, and notes: “Orion Health has always been a proud family business, a sense of whānau is at the heart of our company values.”
ProCare has appointed a new director to its cooperative board, Tevita Funaki, who represents Pacific interests.
Mr Funaki has been on the ProCare Health (PHO) Ltd board since 2011 and is now its chair.
He is chief executive of Auckland regional Pacific health and social services provider The Fono.
The new general manager product management at healthcare software developer and vendor Manage My Health is Samuel Wong.
Mr Wong was for four years the vice president of product innovations at tech firm Vensa, has held analytics roles with St John and ProCare Health, and co-founded and managed mobile health IT start-up Auximedic.
He chairs the Digital Health Association’s emerging personalised healthcare industry group.
At Manage My Health, he is responsible for managing and developing the product functionalities of software products; relationship management; and business development.
Steve Flynn, who served as general manager of global medical technologies company Baxter in Australia and New Zealand for seven years, will now lead the company’s Asia Pacific region as senior vice president and president Baxter Asia Pacific.
Mr Flynn joined Baxter in 2006 and served as a board member for six years at the Medical Technology Association of Australia.
Mr Flynn has worked for more than 27 years in the automotive, logistics and healthcare industries.
The new chief executive at Burnett Foundation Aotearoa (formerly New Zealand AIDS Foundation) is Joe Rich, who arrived at the desk after five years as operations director, three years as communications and marketing manager, and two years as senior social marketer.
A commerce and marketing graduate, Mr Rich became acting chief executive when Jason Myers left to head up Oxfam Aotearoa after six years leading the HIV/AIDS charity. Its new name pays tribute to pioneering AIDS activist, the late Bruce Burnett.
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