Staff & Trust

Clubhouse Staff
Keu Iorangi - Clubhouse 274 Coordinator
Keu is an ex-pupil of Clover Park Middle School and Te Whanau o Tupuranga and has always had an interest in technology. Keu has come from a technology background and when not in the clubhouse, enjoys creating beats,doing graphic design and learning how to create games.

Melissa Marsters - Clubhouse 274 Assistant Coordinator

Filemoni Timoteo - Clubhouse CBO


Clubhouse Trust
The New Zealand Computer Clubhouse Trust is a registered charity.

Board

Haami (Sam) Tutu Chapman - Acting Chairperson / Kaitiaki
Over 30 years working in Community Development throughout New Zealand. Chairman of Houhanga Rongo Trust Co-founded in 1989. Chair of Restorative Justice Project, Counties Manukau District. Provide Consultancy and Advocacy services to Communities in NZ, North America and Australasia for the last 15 years. Taught in Primary and Tertiary sectors, Prisons, Community organizations and Churches both in NZ and overseas. Trustee and advisor to WV NZ. Facilitator and speaker at Indigenous Peoples Conferences in Rotorua, South Dakota USA and Australia.

John Ross - Treasurer, Audit Committee Chair

Ann Milne - Secretary
Ann Milne is the principal of Clover Park Middle School and has worked in the school and the Otara community for twenty years. She has a Masters degree in Educational Administration (1st Class Honours) from Massey University and is embarking on study towards a Ph.D. Ann has long experience in Information and Communications Technology and her educational philosophy is very much in tune with that of the Clubhouse. An advocate for schools that fit the kids, Ann has worked hard to ensure that learning at Clover Park Middle School is based in the Maori and Pacific cultures of the students. Her research has been presented at many conferences and seminars in New Zealand and internationally, most recently at the AERA (American Education Research Association) Conference in San Diego, USA. Ann brings a wealth of knowledge about the education of indigenous and ethnic minority students to the Computer Clubhouse team.

Simon Martin - Trustee, Legal Consel

Max Purdy FCIBNZ QPIB - Trustee

John Blackham - Strategic Development
John Blackham has had considerable involvement in the development of the software industry in New Zealand. He participated in the Porter project on NZ’s competitive capability (1990) and introduced the Innovation Market to stimulate the development of venture capital for high-tech start-ups (1998). Recent activities: Director, Trade New Zealand, Managing Director, XSol Ltd, Managing Director, Founder, NZ Intellectual Capital Foundation, Founder, NZ High-Tech Council, Founder, NZ Software Export Association, Advisory Board member, Unitec Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

John Corey - Trustee

Executive Team

Mike Usmar
- Cheif Executive Officer

Filemoni Timoteo - Cheif Operations Officer
Has over 17 years of frontline delivery, senior management and policy experience in areas of economic and community development. He comes with a wealth of practical experience in the central government, private, not for profit and more recently local government sectors.

Kane Milne - Director of Learning
Kane in an ex-pupil at Clover Park Middle School and was amongst the first to see the introduction of the first computers in schools. As well as playing in an Auckland R&B band, Kane also does work for various companies around the world creating videos of game addons. 

Operation and Administration

Kube Jones-Neill - PR & Communications

Peter Carpenter - Accountant
Clubhouse Kairangi

Sir Barry Curtis - Sir Barry Curtis was elected to Manukau City Council in 1968, just three years after the City was formed. In 1983 he became full-time Mayor of the young, growing, multi-cultural City which he considers a microcosm of New Zealand society.

Sir Barry began his working life as a surveyor. He later studied for a Diploma in Town Planning at the University of Auckland, worked as a local government planner and formed his own planning, surveying and architecture practice with other partners.

Sir Barry has also served as an executive member of the New Zealand Local Government Association, as Chairman of the Hillary Commission's Task Force on Recreation, as a Director of the 1990 Commonwealth Games, and as President of the New Zealand Sister Cities Society. He is also patron of many community organisations.

In 1994 Sir Barry was awarded the high Samoan Matai title of SEIULI by His Highness, Malietoa Tanumafili II, the Head of State, Western Samoa, in recognition of leadership and contribution in the areas of welfare and cultural interest of the Samoan and Pacific Island people of Manukau City.

Prof. Graham Smith - CEO of Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi