Yellow Brick Road Board

Our Chair has been involved with Yellow Brick Road since returning to New Zealand in 2018, when she was appointed to the Wairarapa Board of Supporting Families NZ.
Prior to this, Jacinda studied law and science and followed a career in structured finance and private banking in Sydney and London. During her time in London she was appointed to the Governance Committees of Rethink Mental Illness, a UK charity focused on supporting people affected by mental illness.
Jacinda’s passion to help those suffering from mental illness stems from seeing her brother battle with Schizophrenia and losing him to this illness. The devastating impact this had on her family means she is very aware of the need to support families of those struggling with mental illness.
Jacinda lives in Martinborough with her young family and is studying Psychology at Victoria University.

Gary has been involved with Yellow Brick Road since 2014 and has over 40 years’ experience as an organisational ambassador. He’s an experienced leader and held chief executive roles for commercial businesses, local government, not for profit organisations and the public sector.
Now retired, his last position was as chief executive of Totara Hospice, which provides end of life care within the south Auckland community. As a director of Lifeline New Zealand, Gary led the integration of New Zealand’s regional Lifeline centres. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace for New Zealand in 1989 and is a Life Fellow of Institute of Management NZ. He too loves the outdoors, camper-vanning and spending time with family.

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Denyse Wilcox joined us from beautiful Otaki Beach between Wellington and Palmerston North. She comes to us with extensive management experience in health and disability support services and has held a range of general management roles. Great passions in her work have included working with families/whānau and children and young people in the foster care system, developing strategies as part of a wider group for Māori with an intellectual disability and building capacity and capability of the individuals and teams she’s worked alongside. Choosing to step away from full time employment in 2019, Denyse is currently self-employed in the health and disability sector and is also a registered and practicing celebrant. Her interest in Te Wahāpuahoaho comes from the focus on families and the mission and values of the organisation

Kerri has come to us from the Bay of Plenty where she runs a business providing and coordinating facilitation services to a range of businesses and organisations in the areas of leadership and team development. She has an extensive background in almost every facet of business and is highly skilled in building organisations up to be the very best they can. She has been involved in numerous voluntary roles and activities. Her energy, passion and professionalism seems boundless and is very welcome. When not toiling away, she is spending time with her family.