Trustees

Aaron is a Dilworth Old Boy and joined the Trust Board in 2013 before becoming Chairman in 2018.

He is 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 was a member and Treasurer of the Dilworth Old Boys’ Association (DOBA) Council.

Jonathan joined the Dilworth Trust Board in March 2019.

Jonathan also serves on the Boards of companies including Vector, Zespri, Westpac and Air New Zealand.

Previously he was the Chief Financial Officer at Fonterra and the Chief Financial Officer at 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.

Peter is a property and investment expert who joined the Trust Board in 2017.

He is an independent property investment and development advisor and a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Peter has previously held senior executive roles at 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 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 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 Pacific peoples representation in corporate leadership. Since its foundation, it has successfully placed almost 1,000 Māori and Pacific people interns into organisations in New Zealand.

John Morris ONZM has been newly appointed to the Dilworth Trust Board.  He brings significant experience in secondary school education to the role and has had an extensive career in education leadership and governance roles. He is a former Headmaster of Takapuna Grammar School (1990-93) and 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, NZ Partnership Schools’ Board, and 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.

He has also consulted widely on educational issues, including to the University of Cambridge International Examination organisation in NZ, Asia and the Middle East and to a large number of schools in the Auckland region. As a secondary school specialist he has contributed to a number of significant educational developments in NZ and overseas as a member of NZ and UK government reviews and advisory committees.