Our Governance

Lester is a qualified medical doctor with an MBA and is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators. He is registered as a medical specialist with the Medical Council of New Zealand.  

Lester has been appointed to serve on 30 Boards of Directors, 17 as Chair and three as deputy-Chair. He has served as a chair of boards of directors continuously for 27 years and has held seven ministerial health appointments over the last 16 years. Lester has been a healthcare chief executive three times, twice in the public sector and once in the private sector.

Lester has been appointed as the Commissioner of Health NZ for a 12-month term.

The Deputy Commissioner roles include strategic oversight of Health NZ’s financial turnaround, development and implementation of our turnaround plan and ensuring Health NZ has robust financial management and accountability across the organisation.

Roger Jarrold

Roger Jarrold has vast financial experience having worked in finance in both private and public sectors for over 40 years. He has held several Chief Financial Officer roles including for Fletcher Construction, Downer New Zealand, Kordia Group Ltd, and the former Auckland DHB.

Alongside his Auckland DHB experience, Roger has additional experience in the health sector which I believe makes him the ideal person for the job.  He has worked as a Crown Monitor for Southern DHB, Chaired the Audit Committee for the Health Research Council, and the Finance and Audit Committee at Hutt Valley DHB and Capital & Coast DHB. He is currently serving as Chair of the Audit Committee for Health New Zealand Southern.

Ken Whelan

Ken Whelan is a senior health executive with over 30 years as a Senior Manager and 20 of those years as a Chief Executive across a range of health providers and purchasers from secondary/tertiary providers with large rural and indigenous populations to major teaching facilities.

Ken’s strengths include strong collaborative leadership, organisational change, performance management and accountability frameworks. He understands clinical and corporate governance models, and care across the fully continuum.

Kylie Clegg

An accomplished professional with a legal background, Kylie also has extensive experience in health sector governance, having previously served on the Boards of Waitematā and Counties Manukau DHBs. She has also served on the Boards of Napier Port and Auckland Transport.

In addition to exceptional leadership in the corporate world, Kylie has held leadership roles in sport including having captained the New Zealand Black Sticks hockey team at the Sydney Olympics in 2000.