Management Team

Allan Sargison Allan came to TPP in 2010 as Chief Operating Officer. He was Acting CEO from late 2011 until his appointment as CEO in mid 2012. After beginning his career as a diplomat in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he moved to the tertiary world and the University of Otago Clinical School in Wellington in 1978 before going to CIT as Registrar and later Head of the School of Management and Computing. Some eight years was spent as Registrar (COO) at Lincoln University. He then set up and developed the Tertiary Advisory Monitoring Group in the Ministry of Education, working extensively with polytechnics before going into private practice as an advisor on tertiary management and planning. Allan’s interests are family, gardening and camping in addition to basking in the approval of the family’s two dogs!

Title: CHIEF EXECUTIVE Office: Beaumont Building Campus: Greymouth

Alyson Bone Aly is responsible for the Finance and HR functions at TPP and is a member of the TPP Management Team. She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and a Chartered Global Management Accountant. Aly joined TPP in July 2009 after emigrating from the UK where she worked in the Nuclear Industry managing centralised financial services for a group of companies. While working in the UK she gained extensive experience implementing and managing financial software solutions. Born in Whitehaven, a town on the West Coast of the UK's Lake District she finds New Zealand's West Coast both familiar and different (warmer and with more sunshine!).

Title: CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER Office: Beaumont Building Campus: Greymouth

Harry Lyon Harry has been a guitar player with Hello Sailor from its inception in 1975 and is a songwriter with credits that include "Lying In The Sand", "Dr I Like Your Medicine", RIANZ Single of the Year (1981), The Legionnaires Top 20 Single "You Bring Out the Worst in Me" and "Muscles", that featured on Midge Marsden's 'Burning Rain' album, on the soundtrack of French film 'Through the Fire' and was a 1991 APRA Silver Scroll finalist. Harry has recorded in top NZ recording studios in Australia, L.A. and New York, where Sailor mixed an album at the legendary Electric Lady Studios. He worked as a freelance writer and producer of radio and television commercials with the major advertising agencies for clients and squeezed in an acting career, appearing in several TV ads, as the lead male in the feature film "Should I Be Good", shot in NZ, Hong Kong and Thailand, and television productions like "Heroes II", "Plainclothes" and "Hercules". Outside of MAINZ Harry still records and performs with Hello Sailor who were inducted into the NZ Music Hall of Fame in 2011. He is the Artist Representative on the PPNZ board, a Stage Challenge board member and trustee, and is busy with voice-over work.

Title: DEAN - MAINZ Campus: MAINZ Auckland

John Quigley Originally with the Bongos and Big Sideways, John won the New Zealand Music Award for best song and new group in 1987. These days John continues his passion for performing and writing original acoustic music and songs with his group the Nairobi Trio of which he is a founding member. John’s qualifications include an MBA and several years teaching experience, and as guitar player and manager for the well known Nairobi Trio, he has the practical experience that MAINZ likes to bring to all its programmes.

Title: ASSOCIATE DEAN - MAINZ Campus: MAINZ Auckland