Trust House Ltd Senior Management

Allan Pollard
Chief Executive Officer
Allan is the CEO of the Trust House Limited Group. His primary responsibilities are to develop organisational strategy in consultation with the Board and Executive team to ensure alignment with the Group’s core purpose, its vision and its values. Allan is also responsible for delivering a commercially strong organisation for the enhancement of social good. This includes ensuring that all legislative requirements covering our business segments are delivered and any risks mitigated.
The Executive team report directly to our CEO who works closely with them to ensure delivery of our key initiatives.
Contact Allan
(06) 370 0520
allan@trusthouse.co.nz
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Allan has worked in the commercial and social enterprise sectors for 35 years. Originally from Glasgow, Allan started his professional life as a 16 year old dishwasher and has worked through most positions in the commercial and social enterprise sectors on his way to becoming our Chief Executive Officer.
Allan commenced employment with Trust House as our GM Operations and Marketing in 2003. Allan studied later in life and graduated with a Master’s degree in Business Administration in 2012. Allan was appointed as our CEO in 2013 and has implemented significant change management initiatives to further grow and develop the organisation.
A key achievement by Allan and the team was winning the first contract in New Zealand from the Government as a fully registered community housing provider. This has enabled significant benefits to be supplied to the people in our communities most in need. It has also created further income streams that can be channelled to delivering further improvements to our housing assets, such as insulation, heating sources and internal and external refurbishment. Recently we have also completed our first housing regeneration program, another great achievement under Allan’s tenure.
Increased benefits in excess of $4m back to our communities via grants, charitable donations, sponsorship and facilitation of company resources has also delivered immense benefits to community wellbeing. This has included: Recreation and Sport, Arts, Community and Culture, Health and Education.
In his spare time Allan is a keen triathlete having completed two full Ironman races plus multiple half Ironman competitions, marathons and other multi-sport events.

Richard Simmonds
General Manager, Corporate Services
Richard is the General Manager Corporate Services. In this role he is responsible for the finance, IT, legal, payroll and human resources functions of the Trust House Group. Richard also manages key relationships with our Auditors, Bankers and Insurers.
Contact Richard
(06) 370 0520
richard@trusthouse.co.nz
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Cindra Grant
General Manager, Operations & Compliance
Cindy is responsible for all aspects of running the Trust House Foundation.
This includes ensuring the gaming venues are all compliant and that the gaming is run lawfully.
Cindy attends the Regional Net Proceeds Committee Boards of the Foundation to ensure that the grants submitted to the Trust House Foundation meet the requirements of the Department of Internal Affairs.
Contact Cindy
06 370 0525
cindy@trusthouse.co.nz
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Craig Thomson
General Manager, Housing & Infrastructure
Craig is responsible for all of the Trust House rental portfolio. He is also responsible for the management of our Hydro-Electric scheme and the Maintenance and BWOF of our commercial properties. He has worked for Trust House for 10 years.
Contact Craig
06 370 0529
craig@trusthouse.co.nz
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Trust House Ltd Board of Directors

Jock Kershaw
Chair of Trust House Ltd, President of Masterton Community Trust
Jock became Chair of Trust House Ltd in 2014, having been a Director since 2007, and is a member of the Audit and Risk Committee. Jock is also Chair of both the Trust House Foundation and the Masterton Community Trust, and has been an elected MLT Trustee from 2001-2016. Then an elected MCT trustee since Oct 2016.
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Lucy Griffiths
Director of Trust House Ltd, Vice President of Masterton Community Trust
Lucy is Vice President of the Masterton Community Trust, a Director of Trust House Ltd. She is also a member of the Trust House Foundation and is a member of the Audit and Risk Committee.
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Mena Antonio
Deputy Chair Trust House Foundation, Chair Masterton Net Proceeds Committee
Mena is an elected Masterton Community Trust Trustee.
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Donald Baskerville
Independent Director of Trust House Ltd
Don was appointed to the Trust House Ltd board as an Independent Director in 2011.
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David Henry
Independent Director of Trust House Ltd
David joined the board of Trust House Ltd as an Independent Director in December 2004. He became a member of the Audit and Risk Committee (ARC) in 2005 and was made Chair of the ARC in 2006. David continues to be a Chartered Accountant having qualified in 1975.
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Stuart Campbell
Independent Director of Trust House Ltd
Stuart Campbell was born and bred in the Manawatu.
He studied business at Massey University funded by driving Watties pea viners for several seasons after spending one year living in Minnesota, USA as an AFS exchange student.
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He is now a Chartered Accountant, a farmer and a Manawatu District Councillor.
Stuart is married to Lyn and lives on his family farm at Taonui. He has two adult children.
He enjoys bagpipes, basketball and farming. He follows the All Blacks, Hurricanes, Manawatu Turbos, OKC and the Minnesota Twins.
Trustees of Masterton Community Trust
As well as Jock Kershaw and Lucy Griffiths the following are elected trustees of MCT.

Jock Kershaw
Chair of Trust House Ltd, President of Masterton Community Trust
Jock became Chair of Trust House Ltd in 2014, having been a Director since 2007, and is a member of the Audit and Risk Committee. Jock is also Chair of both the Trust House Foundation and the Masterton Community Trust, and has been an elected MLT Trustee from 2001-2016. Then an elected MCT trustee since Oct 2016.
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Lucy Griffiths
Director of Trust House Ltd, Vice President of Masterton Community Trust
Lucy is Vice President of the Masterton Community Trust, a Director of Trust House Ltd. She is also a member of the Trust House Foundation and is a member of the Audit and Risk Committee.
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Mena Antonio
Deputy Chair Trust House Foundation, Chair Masterton Net Proceeds Committee
Mena is an elected Masterton Community Trust Trustee.
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Karl Taucher
Trustee of Masterton Community Trust
Karl has been an elected Trustee of the Masterton Licensing Trust from 2007- 2016 and is now a trustee for the Masterton Community Trust and is also an elected member of the Masterton Trust Lands Trust since 2001.
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Brent Goodwin
Trustee of Masterton Community Trust

Bex Johnson
Trustee of Masterton Community Trust
Bex Johnson’s career has been primarily in media sales and management having worked in print, radio and television in a number of competitive markets through New Zealand. Bex has won a number of national awards for both radio and print sales as well as Station of the Year and Service Provider of the Year as General Manager of Mediaworks Rotorua and Wairarapa.
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Bex is married to Bill who manages Masterton Club. They have two sons and 6 grandchildren.