Ian is a ‘people person’ and spent over 25 years in the multinational business world, negotiating with large organisations while fostering professional and personal relationships, many of which continue to this day. He will use all these skills to ensure that the Howick Local Board uses its powers for the betterment of the local community.   Ian is passionate about Howick, its people and its future and will work as part of a team with the Auckland Council to deliver the services needed for the benefit of all.

Ian has a strong and proactive community spirit. He is Chairman of the Howick Showcase Awards Committee; a member of the Rotary Club of Half Moon Bay (Past-President and Paul Harris Fellow) and Past-President of the ‘NZ Federation of Freshwater Anglers ’.

 Ian is part of the Howickian Team with Jenny Foster and Jim Donald (Current Chair, Howick Community Board), committed to delivering experience, integrity and ability.

Top 5 Issues

1. Mandate and funding: To negotiate with the new Super City to get the authority, and very importantly, the money needed to make ‘Howick the way you want it’.
2. Howick local issues: To ensure Howickians can have their say, and see some resolution, on important local issues such as the wonderful Maud Nixon ‘Garden of Memories’ legacy and the placement of cellphone towers.
3. Howick's Commercial success: build on the already impressive and well-patronised Howick Village shopping area, by encouraging further development and publicity of the Howick market, and through support for other local business initiatives.
4. Transportation: To lobby effectively on transportation issues – including assessing the viability of a Howick wharf and ferry services generally.
5. Co-operation: To ensure smooth co-operation between all three Howick subdivisions – Howick, Botany and Pakuranga - for the benefit of everyone.

Personal Profile

Ian has lived in Howick for over thirty years. With his late wife Pauline, Ian was actively involved in the Howick community as part of the Star of the Sea PTA, the Howick Pony Club and other community groups like the Uxbridge Road Action Committee. While working in sales and marketing for a multinational agrichemical company, Ian also leased and farmed 150 acres on Botany Road - where many locals grazed their horses and came in summer to pick their own sweet corn. As a retiree, with even more time to devote to community activities, Ian joined the Rotary Club of Half Moon Bay, and was President during 2009/10, actively supporting initiatives like the annual yacht regatta, the Lloyd Elsmore Rotary Bike Track and the ‘Trees for Survival’ schools programme. He also recently chaired the very successful Howick ShowCase Awards. He is a keen fly-fisherman and is immediate Past-President of the NZ Federation of Freshwater Anglers, and chairman of the Auckland section of the the New Zealand Institute of Agricultural Science. He shares many of these activities with his partner Philippa. His three adult children still live in Auckland and are big supporters of his campaign. He is also grandfather of three girls, whom he takes for trips to the zoo and for duck feeding expeditions as often as time allows.