PRESENTER PROFILES

Mary-Jane Thomas

Mary-Jane Thomas is a partner in the Litigation Team for Preston Russell Law. She has extensive experience as a criminal prosecutor, in employment law and civil litigation. She is the Crown Solicitor for Southland, taking over this role in 2005. Mary-Jane is also the partner in charge of the employment law practice.

Graham Dick

Graham Dick has been a partner at McIntyre Dick and Partners for 25 years. Graham has had many years experience in advising the commercial sector and adding value to clients’ businesses. He specialises in business planning and structure, organisational reviews and business valuations. Graham has run several successful start up business workshops for Venture Southland.

Andee Gainsford

Andee Gainsford has been involved with industrial manufacturing for almost 25 years and exporting for the past 12 years. Andee moved to Southland in 1997 to take up an export sales role, selling processed forest products to countries on the Pacific Rim, and in 2006 took on a new export challenge selling pastry & sauce manufactured in Invercargill to Japan, Hong Kong, Dubai and North America.

Lisa Crosswell

A former television and print journalist, Lisa Crosswell has been consulting in public relations and marketing since 2000. Today, she runs Crosswell Communications Ltd and works with both public and private sector clients across a range of sectors.