Paul Connell, CA, AMInsd, Chairman
Paul joined the board of Just Water International Limited in August 2011. Paul currently serves as a director of Halls Holdings Ltd, Telarc SAI Ltd, Unison Networks Ltd and Zintel Group Ltd and brings widespread business experience to JWI with over 30 years experience in corporate finance, management consulting and chartered accountancy and on the board of listed and unlisted companies.
During his business career, Paul has advised listed company boards, state-owned enterprises, public bodies and private companies. His focus has been on strategic planning, management, mergers and acquisitions, financial structuring and raising capital.
Paul is a member of the public practise college of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants and is an accredited member of the Institute of Directors in New Zealand.
Tony Falkenstein, BCom, Executive Director
Tony Falkenstein has been a CEO of companies for over 31 years, including subsidiaries of multi nationals, two NZX-listed companies, and for the past twenty four years, his own family company, Red Eagle Corporation Limited.
He was Chief Executive of one of New Zealand’s most successful public companies in the early 1980’s. He will continue to follow the same principle which brought that company to public success – "Be totally open to shareholders, show them what you are doing, be proud of your results, and treat shareholders with the respect they deserve – they are the owners!”
His business philosophy is uncomplicated: “Keep it simple, enjoy what you are doing, and make a profit”. With this philosophy he has grown the Red Eagle Group to an annual turnover in excess of $150 million.
Tony is a past President and Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries, and is currently a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Management.
He is Chairman of New Zealand’s first business high school, Onehunga High Business School, and is passionate about business education as the key to New Zealand’s economic prosperity.
Tony was inducted into the New Zealand Business Hall of Fame in 2008, was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) in 2010, and was selected as a Distinguished Alumni of the University of Auckland in 2011.
Simone Iles, Independent Director
Independent director and Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and member of the Audit Committee.
Simone has held senior marketing and management positions at Telecom, Briscoe Group (Briscoes, Rebel Sport and Living & Giving) and Pacific Retail Group (Noel Leeming, Bond & Bond) and has spent many years in the marketing and advertising industries in both NZ and the UK.
Simone is a leading strategic thinker, with wide ranging marketing and business experience in both B2B and B2C markets. Simone formerly held the position of Chairman of the NZ Marketing Association, where she held a number of executive positions over a period of 8 years, and is a member of the Institute of Directors.
Ian Malcolm, Non-Executive Director
Ian Malcolm is a Chartered Accountant and has been in public practice for 25 years. He is a director with Mabee Halstead & Kiddle Ltd, a long-established and well-respected chartered accounting firm in Central Auckland.
Ian has been actively involved with the establishment and growth of a number of businesses primarily in the ICT sector and is currently on the board of some twenty companies largely in these areas, as well as companies within the Red Eagle Group.
In 1989 Ian started Global Accounting, a computer software business targeting professional firms, which rapidly grew to be a highly successful and respected player in the market. After the sale of this business in 2000 to an Australian public company, Ian continued a high involvement in ICT, recently retiring as Chairperson of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants’ Auckland Computer Group.
Community involvements include Trustee of the Stardome Observatory, Treasurer of a school Board of Trustees, honorary auditor of sports clubs, church parish committee involvements and a Justice of the Peace.
