Speakers
We are proud to present an exceptional lineup of speakers for the SB Ōtautahi Christchurch
ALEC TANG
KPMG New Zealand
Alec is a Chartered Environmentalist and Fellow of the Institute of Environmental and Sustainability Professionals, with a career dedicated to tackling sustainability challenges across academia, business, and the public sector. He is a Partner with KPMG New Zealand, leading its Sustainability, Climate and ESG practice, lectures on sustainable business at AUT, and sits on the External Reporting Board’s Sustainability Reporting Committee, as well as the Chapter Zero New Zealand Steering Group and the Queenstown Lakes District Council’s Climate Reference Group.
Alec is skilled in identifying sustainability risks and delivering strategic and operational solutions. He has led multi-disciplinary teams, driven by shared values and purpose, and has worked on everything from regional climate and wellbeing strategies to targeted interventions with measurable impact.
His diverse experience enables him to bridge strategic insight with practical understanding of complex organisations, supported by strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills essential for driving enduring sustainability change.
JOHN BERRY
Pathfinder Asset Management
Co-founder, CEO & Resident Wayfinder at Pathfinder Asset Management
John believes ethical investing can fund a better, more sustainable world – and deliver great financial returns. He co-founded Pathfinder in 2009, and has since pioneered the mission to generate both individual wealth and collective well-being.
John has long been an advocate in the ethical investing space. He champions the idea that businesses and individuals can both make a profit while also contributing to solutions for some of the world’s major challenges. John believes that no one should have to choose between an ethical investment and a profitable one. For over a decade, this belief has been embedded in Pathfinder's series of award-winning, innovative ethical funds, including their KiwiSaver Plan.
Through his role, John has received multiple accolades including ‘Best Ethical KiwiSaver Fund’ four years running by Mindful Money, ‘Transforming Aotearoa NZ’ by the Sustainable Business Network, ‘Responsible Investment Manager of the Year’ by ResearchIP and ‘Favourite Ethical KiwiSaver Scheme’ by MoneyHub. In 2023 John was personally recognised by the Sustainable Business Network with the ‘Sustainability Superstar Award’.
MANU CADI
Hikurangi Bioactives
Manu Caddie is a biotechnology entrepreneur, advocate and researcher dedicated to sustainable, ethical innovation grounded in Indigenous leadership and the Rights of Nature. He co-founded Hikurangi Bioactives and NZX-listed Rua Bioscience, developing natural therapeutics from taonga species while embedding Māori governance and stakeholder benefit-sharing throughout supply chains. His pioneering work demonstrates how ethical bioprospecting can regenerate ecosystems, create Indigenous prosperity, and positions capitalism done differently as a powerful tool for community and ecological restoration.
KATHERINE DEWAR
GoodSense
Katherine Dewar (FCIM) is the founder of GoodSense and tangata Tiriti. A marketer and facilitator with over 30 years’ experience and a business-owner since 2001, Kath leads the GoodSense team in using marketing and communications in ways that benefit people and the rest of nature.
“Ngā tangata Pict o Kōtirana, ngā tūpuna o tōku matua. Nō North Warwickshire, Ingarangi ngā tūpuna o tōku whaea. Nō Yorkshire, Ingarangi ahau. E noho ana ahau ki Tapawera, ki Te Tauihu. Kō GoodSense te rōpu. Kō Kataraina Dewar tōku ingoa.
My father’s ancestors descend from the Picts of Scotland and my mother’s ancestors are from North Warwickshire, England. I am from Yorkshire and I now live at Tapaera in Te Tauihu, the top of the South Island of Aotearoa. I am part of the GoodSense team. My name is Katherine Dewar.”
A Fellow of the UK-based Chartered Institute of Marketing and an award winning international marketer, Kath joined the Sustainable Business Network in Aotearoa NZ in 2003. This began the journey to meld Kath’s personal values with her professional practice, leading to the creation of the GoodSense team in 2010.
In 2022, Kath was elected to the Board of the Sustainable Business Network and invited to join the Advisory Board to the University of Auckland’s Circular Economy Beacon (CEBUS).
She served as a judge for the Mindful Money ethical investment awards from 2021 to 2023, and for the Sustainable Business Network Awards in 2017 – 2020 and 2010 – 2012. Kath was a finalist in the Sustainability Superstar Category of the Sustainable Business Network Awards in 2023, and in 2025 and 2021 GoodSense were finalists in the same Awards. In 2013, Kath and GoodSense were finalists for their work challenging Dole banana’s greenwash. This willingness to challenge the status quo and champion change for good sees Kath sought out by journalists for comment on ethical marketing and sustainability.
Kath is an experienced and strategic facilitator, skilled at drawing insights, ideas and agreement from the diverse experiences of participants. Her workshops are fun, interactive and have impact long afterwards.
Kath has run workshops in ethical marketing for sustainable business and social enterprise for The Ākina Foundation and the Sustainable Business Network, delivered the marketing component of Auckland Council’s Green Growth programme and tutored in marketing sustainability for the University of Auckland. She has also delivered post-graduate guest lectures for AUT and the University of Auckland and spoken on marketing sustainability at the Fit for the Future Conference, the Hospitality Association AGM, and the Association of NZ Advertisers conference, among others. Kath is also the founder and course director of the world’s first online, professional training course in Sustainable Marketing.
Kath has a BA(Hons) from the University of Leeds and the post-graduate Diploma from the Chartered Institute of Marketing and is a certified TetraMap facilitator.
ANGIE FARRUGIA
B Lab Australia & Aotearoa
Angie Farrugia is B Lab Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand’s Director of Communications & Engagement. With more than 20 years of communications and marketing experience across Australia and the UK, Angie has led strategic brand development, storytelling, communications and campaigns for a wide variety of organisations and teams, from large enterprises and household brands to non-profits, start-ups, and social enterprises. She holds a Bachelor of Communications, Mini-MBA in Marketing, and a Mastery of Business & Empathy (MBE).
Angie joined B Lab AANZ in 2022 to lead the communications and community engagement strategy for the region, growing awareness and supporting the B Corp movement's global vision for an inclusive, equitable, and regenerative economy.
JONNY HARRISON
Karma Drinks
Jonny Harrison is CEO of Karma Drinks, a global beverage brand with a purpose-led strategy.
His career includes 10 years at PwC Consulting across the UK and Australia, followed by 10 years at Lion across Finance, Sales, Marketing and Business Development. He has held board roles with Remedy Drinks, Drive Yello, Schibello Coffee, Surfcraft Brewing and the QLD Container Exchange, and was previously CEO of Shine Drinks.
He brings decades of beverage experience together with his passion for sustainability to the leadership of Karma Drinks, the world's most ethical soft drink.
STEVEN MOE
Parry Field Lawyers
Steven Moe is a Partner at Parry Field Lawyers with a focus on helping purpose led entrepreneurs and businesses succeed through practical support on topics such as structures, shareholders, raising capital and IP. He is the author of “Nature as Shareholder” and has edited free guides for startups including on raising capital, hosts the online Seeds Impact Conference, recently edited a free book of 25 essays on “Changing Paradigms” and has worked as a lawyer for 25 years including 11 years overseas based in Tokyo, London and Sydney, and since 2016 has been based back in Aotearoa. Steven hosts seeds podcast which has a focus on “for purpose” organisations and people doing inspiring things which has 480 episodes and another on governance for the IOD called Board Matters.
CAROLYN MORTLANDS
Zespri
Carolyn leads sustainability at Zespri, helping people, communities, and the environment around the world thrive through the goodness of kiwifruit. Zespri is the world’s largest marketer of kiwifruit, selling kiwifruit in more than 50 countries, with ~2,800 New Zealand and 1,500 international growers and post-harvest companies. Zespri’s sustainability mission is to provide the best-quality nutritious kiwifruit to consumers through a low-emissions, resilient and responsible supply chain.
Carolyn has over 25 years’ experience in strategic, stakeholder and sustainability roles. She is a member of the XRB’s Sustainability Reporting Board, and has advised many of New Zealand’s primary sector exporters on developing sustainable brands, strategies and supply chains. Prior to that, Carolyn was Director, Sustainability at Fonterra, setting global targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, building nature-based partnerships and publishing audited sustainability reports.
Carolyn lives in Auckland but is regularly based at her original home town, and Zespri headquarters, in Tauranga
RHYS ROBERTS
Align Farms
Rhys Roberts is the Chief Executive of Align Farms, a Mid-Canterbury dairy business pioneering one of New Zealand’s most closely watched regenerative-versus-conventional farm system trials on its Clareview property.
Rhys is also a co-founder of Re Dairy, one of the few New Zealand-owned yoghurt brands whose products are made from fresh, whole milk coming from a single-origin regenerative farm owned by Align Farms. Re’s probiotic yoghurt range is designed as a full farm to shelf story, connecting healthier soils and diverse pastures to nutrient dense milk and everyday supermarket shoppers.
A former Zanda McDonald Award winner, Rhys is an active voice in Australasia’s food and fibre sector, sharing practical insights on how brands and farmers can work together to de-risk regenerative transitions while creating differentiated, values-led products like Re yoghurt.
ALANNAH ROBINSON
GoodSense
Allanah Robinson is our experienced marketing consultant and science communicator based in Ōtautahi / Christchurch, working with the GoodSense team to deliver ethical marketing and comms excellence to businesses and organisations in the South Island.
Allanah earned her stripes in in-house marketing roles over nearly 20 years, with experience in everything from grass roots projects to board-level strategic planning. She has significant experience in working with clients to identify their sources of competitive advantage, define who they are, and tell their core story. She especially loves working with businesses who operate at the intersection of what they love, what the world needs, what they’re good at, and what they can get paid or funded for.
Allanah is passionate about economic development in the regions and supporting New Zealand’s growth sectors. She has specialist experience in tourism, public sector, and small business entrepreneurship, doing everything from trade shows to strategic marketing planning, business re-branding and website development to writing tweets. She is also one of our in-house research gurus, producing top quality desktop marketing research reports for our clients across sectors, and providing supporting business award applications and funding bid writing for businesses.
Allanah has a Masters degree in Marketing and teaches marketing, management, and research at tertiary level. She is also on the board of the Marlborough Sounds Wildlife Recovery Trust.
CAT ROWE
Silver Fern Farms
Cat Rowe is Head of Nature Impact and Policy, where she works to embed nature-positive and systems-based thinking into organisational strategy, commercial practice and ways of working. Her focus is on translating purpose and values into action by aligning policy, process and decision-making so organisations can genuinely uphold the promises they make to people and place. Before returning to Aotearoa, Cat had spent several years living and working in the Pacific, she is strongly influenced by the work and advocacy of first peoples in the fight against climate change, ocean and biodiversity loss particularly the importance of connection to place, guardianship and long-term thinking.