Trustees

Aaron Snodgrass is a Dilworth Old Boy and joined the Dilworth Trust Board in 2013 before becoming Chairman in 2018. He was most recently Chief Financial Officer of Eastland Group, a Gisborne-based infrastructure company, and has previously worked as a Chartered Accountant at PwC and Deutsche Bank. Aaron is a Chartered Accountant Fellow (FCA) and a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Directors (CFInstD). Aaron has previously been a member and Treasurer of the Dilworth Old Boys’ Association (DOBA) Council. Aaron and his wife Courtney have four primary and intermediate school aged children and they provide respite care to Oranga Tamariki carers. Aaron is also a Judicial Justice, serving in the District Court.

Jonathan Mason joined the Dilworth Trust Board in 2019. He serves on the Board of Zespri, is a trustee of WWF-NZ and the University of Auckland Endowment Fund, a Member of the University Council for the University of Auckland and is Chair of the NZUS Council. He has recently held Board positions on major New Zealand companies Vector, Westpac New Zealand, and Air New Zealand. He was previously Chief Financial Officer for Fonterra and, prior to that, Carter Holt Harvey. Jonathan is also an adjunct Professor of Management at the University of Auckland and helps to recruit New Zealand students to attend Yale University in the United States.

Jonathan’s interests include watching cricket and US football,  tramping, birdwatching, and reading about NZ and US history.  

Peter Alexander is a property and investment expert who joined the Dilworth Trust Board in 2017 and is currently Deputy Chair. Peter is married and father to two adult sons. He is a keen sportsman with a passion for watersports. Peter has an interest in youth development, water safety, social housing initiatives and the disabilities sector. He is also an active volunteer in his local Pest Free initiative.

Peter is an independent property investment and development advisor and a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He has previously held senior executive roles at a number of publicly listed companies including Auckland International Airport, Stride Property Group (Chief Executive), Goodman, Property for Industry, and SkyCity Entertainment (Chief Property Officer). He is a past Chairman of community housing provider Homes of Choice Limited and a past Director of HLC Limited (formerly Hobsonville Land Co Limited).

Leo Foliaki was formerly a senior partner at PwC and joined the Dilworth Trust Board in 2022. His governance experience includes Board membership of New Zealand Opera, The Cause Collective Trust, Auckland University of Technology Council, and TupuToa Trust. He has also been an independent member of the audit committees for Oranga Tamariki and Counties Manukau DHB. Mentoring and developing young people is important to Leo. He is the co-Chair of TupuToa Trust, which aims to grow Māori and Pasifika people’s representation in corporate leadership. Since its foundation, it has successfully placed almost 1,000 Māori and Pasifika interns into organisations in NZ.

John Morris ONZM was appointed to the Dilworth Trust Board in 2023 and brings significant experience in secondary school education and governance. He is a former Headmaster of Takapuna Grammar School (1990-93), Auckland Grammar School (1993-2012), and more recently, Executive Principal of Crimson Global Academy (2019-23), a global online high school. John has sat on a number of educational boards including as an Independent Director of Academic Colleges Group, Tertiary Education Commission, Education NZ, and the NZ Partnership Schools’ Board, and has chaired the Education Council of Aotearoa NZ Transition Board. In the sporting arena John was Chairman of NZ Football and a member of the FIFA Technical Committee. John and his wife Jan have three adult children, two of whom are lawyers and one who is in the executive search profession. Jan was a teacher but now works in the law practice of one of their children.