Our Team – Mana Services

Our Team

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Senior Management Team

Cyril Gudgeon

CO-FOUNDER & DEPUTY CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Cyril spent his early childhood in rural areas of the Northland where he farmed, hunted and learned to live off of the land. The self-reliant nature of this lifestyle helped develop his strong work ethic, sense of discipline, and ability to live life with just the basics while also shaping the way he continues to celebrate and acknowledge his Ngāti Porou and Ngāpuhi affiliations.

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Lachlan Sloan

CO-FOUNDER & CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Lachlan’s mother immigrated with her parents after world war two from Fiji where she was born. His maternal grandparents were a mix of German Samoan and Fijian Sri Lankan & Samoan. Lachlan’s father’s family originated from Scotland.

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Delaine Gudgeon

NATIONAL SERVICE DELIVERY MANAGER

Born and raised in Hamilton Waikato and can truly say that her roots for this area are firmly planted. Delaine’s Māori whakapapa are of Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāpuhi and Tainui descent but she also recognises her Anglo-Saxon, Scottish, Welsh, Scandinavian, and Israeli ancestry as well. Delaine recognises the importance to acknowledge the whole part of the person and not just be selective to what is relevant – for without this, we would not be complete.

Delaine and her husband are blessed with 6 wonderful children. Delaine has had the privilege of being a "stay at home" mum to raise them. Their children have all enjoyed strong competitive sporting backgrounds that have helped mold them into the people they are today. With strong beliefs in the importance of the family unit and the value of hard work, education and integrity, the couple have worked to not only instil these values into our own children but all those whom they come in contact with.

In being a stay at home mother her interests have been furthered by developing skills and learning new things to enhance the ability to provide and support the family and increase the capacity to provide for their own temporal self-reliance. Traditional home making skills that our grandparents once did as their normal everyday living have largely been forgotten. Things like cooking, gardening, and preserving foods are a part of these skills. This has grown and extended to filling a niche of providing catering needs for weddings and other social events that have benefited her family through involvement. Not only has food catering been a part of this, but so too has decorating, equipment hire and the like been a part of her interests.

Upon formally returning back to the workforce, Delaine has worked for the past 12 years in the Private Healthcare Sector, as an Accounts Manager and Service Coordinator, managing carers out in the field and also building trusting relationships with our clients.

Her desire to make a difference in the community made the choice easy, deciding to join Mana Services and the values that it stands for, making her proud to be a part of an organisation that works alongside whanau and rangatahi to make a positive influence to help change and shape their future.

For Delaine, the key to solving the issues and challenges presented in the world can be found in the home - as when there are strong, stable and happy families; so too is the community, and consequently, the nation.

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Nola Walters

GENERAL MANAGER - MANA PEOPLE

Nola Walters was born in Lower Hutt & spent her formative years raised just next door in Upper Hutt, Wellington. She now lives in Auckland after relocating north in 2011. Nola whakapapa’s back to Tainui, and she is currently on a journey to reconnect to her cultural identity.

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Mahia Joyce

GENERAL MANAGER - WHARE ĀHURU (TRANSITIONAL HOUSING FOR RANGATAHI)

Mahia is of Ngāti Raukawa ki te tonga and Ngāti Tūwharetoa decent. Mahia spent her early childhood in the Ruapehu District and was born in the Waiouru Army camp. Hamilton and Rahui Pokeka is where she calls home. Mahia is married to Anthony and has three children Alyssa, Gauge and Jaxxon. Mahia is super active and plays netball and was on the Taiohi Toa Trust….

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Management Team

Wayne Rogers

REGIONAL MANAGER - TE TAI TOKERAU

Ngati Rangi – Wayne was born and raised in the small town of Kaikohe and whakapapa’s to Ngati Rangi hapu. He loved growing up in Kaikohe and from his early teenage years to adulthood, he was exposed to the challenges of low-socio economic conditions, high unemployment, and emerging social and community issues.

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Clay Masina

REGIONAL MANAGER KI PŌNEKE ME WAI POUNAMU

Born and bred in Wellington. Currently living in Upper Hutt his cultural heritage is a mixture of Maori and Samoan. Clay’s Maori whakapapa is from his mother (Taura) and comes from Ngati Tu Whare toa and his father is from Samoa, Leulumoenga.

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Kelly Koka

SERVICE MANAGER

Kelly spent her early childhood in Auckland and later moved to Australia. Since returning to New Zealand in 2014 has held a role as an Executive Assistant and Events Coordinator for a large group and in 2021 joined Mana Services as the values of the company were aligned with her own.

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Sarah Welch

PRACTICE MANAGER

Sarah Welch was born in Papakura and raised predominantly in Rotorua.

Sarah completed a Social Work degree through Bay of Plenty Polytech in Rotorua in 2013 and has an undergraduate degree in Psychology from AUT.

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Matt Hay

ADVISOR & POLICE ADVOCATE

Matt, is a 23-year veteran of the police force. After joining the force in 2000 he spent time in community policing, with the Armed Offenders’ Squad, and as a Dog Handler and Youth Aid Officer, with extensive experience in the Youth Court.

In 2021 he created a one-year therapy dog programme for at-risk rangatahi in partnership with Oranga Tamariki, for which he was awarded an Evidence-Based Policing Award.

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Founders

Tahuri Tibble

CO-FOUNDER & CEO/DIRECTOR TANIWHA SERVICES

Tahuri grew up in a diverse area of West Auckland in a whanau with a strong sense of cultural identity. His iwi affiliations are Ngāti Porou, Ngati Tuwharetoa, Waikato, and Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga. Tahuri’s parents have always been very supportive and he credits his strong foundation with his whanau as having a significant role in his personal success.

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Ray Cameron

CO-FOUNDER

Raymond grew up in the Northland and his iwi affiliation is Ngāpuhi and his hapū Ngāti Hine. Sports, especially basketball, were heavily emphasised in his family from a young age. By becoming involved in sports early on in his life, he quickly learned the principles of hard work, collaboration, and effective communication.

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Our advisors

Paul Tukukino

LEADERSHIP ADVISOR - TIKANGA MĀORI

Paul has 12 years of experience in training and facilitation and spent time as an Advisor in Strategy and Planning at Te Puni Kokiri. He is passionate about Māori development and achievement and worked as a Senior Advisor at KPMG Wellington.

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Natasha Kewene-Hite

PROFESSIONAL ADVISOR

Natasha’s philosophy operates under the premise that the corporate world is made up of human beings living professional lives. She is driven by those processes which bridge knowledge and insights that enrich our lives. She is passionate about people and making connections that build bridges of understanding in unexpected places. She is loves to explore growth and development at an individual and organisational level, recognising the impact that unconscious drivers can….

can have on our ability to navigate relationships, our collaborative efforts and living our best lives.

She is passionate about issues related to systemic racism. Her research interests include psychological safety, identity threat and organisational culture. As an INSEAD graduate with an Executive Masters in Consulting and Coaching for Change, her Master’s thesis is entitled, “Minding the Gap, reBuilding the Bridge: A Psychodynamic and Autoethnographic Exploration of the Role of Mirroring on Institutional Racism and the Duality of Māori and Pākehā Identity“.

Born in Wellington, New Zealand and raised in the United States, after a lifetime overseas, she has returned to her homeland, now based in Featherston, New Zealand. She has a Māori father (Ngāti Kahungunu and Tainui), and a Pākehā mother, born of Welsh/English/Russian immigrants nearly 100 years ago. As a bi-cultural, third culture kid, she learned first-hand and early on the impact that our background has on our world view, how we live and we tackle problems. She is passionate about exploring what it takes to navigate those challenges and helping others to do the same.

She has worked in logistics and operations for Microsoft/Tandem/HP and CH2M Hill and has committed extensive hours to volunteer work: in a rape crisis clinic; as a missionary working in 1980s NYC Latino communities; as lead events organizer for the Utah Special Olympics; mentor to disadvantaged, struggling inner-city youth; Co-lead, Foreign Policy group, Mormon Women for Ethical Government. She is deeply passionate about working with women, girls and youth to become their best selves. Married to a career entrepreneur, she also has extensive experience and in-depth insight into the life of a tech entrepreneur and the impact that journey has on relationships, family and home life.

Fluent in English, Spanish and French, she is now studying te reo (the Māori language). Natasha spent 10 years living across Europe and Asia, and with her husband Paul, raising their three children across four countries, three school systems and one foreign language (French). She is a passionate textile artist who in her spare time makes upcycled felted wool sweaters for children. She loves the natural world, hiking in mountains, swimming in blue seas and touching the sky.

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Paul Kewene-Hite

PROFESSIONAL ADVISOR

Paul is a graduate of Harvard University, a career professional entrepreneur, a former Affiliate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise at INSEAD (the Financial Times #1 business school in the world), and co-founder, with his wife Natasha, of the business consulting practice Mātanga Hāpai in New Zealand.

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