John Holley - Group Manager ICT, Auckland Regional Council

 John Holley is the Group Manager ICT for the Auckland Regional Council. Before this, he has held a number of IT management, sales, and consulting roles, including at the University of Auckland and the Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind.He has been a school trustee for twelve years, including time as board chair for his children’s primary school. He additionally provides consulting to a number of schools in the greater Auckland area on ICT and is a member of the Accelerating Auckland Taskforce. In his spare time he is an officer in the NZ Army, which has included an operational deployment to East Timor in 2001, and instructs in operational planning and leadership at the Canadian Forces College in Toronto.