The New Zealand Institute of Intelligence Professionals

Governance

Committee 2010-11

The Institute is managed by a Committee which is elected from within the membership and assisted by representatives in various locations who promote and support the institute’s activities in their area.

The activities of the Institute and Committee are guided by the Rules and the Committee is answerable to the membership through our General Meetings.

The current Committee members are:

Mike McBurney — Chairperson

Mike McBurney has spent almost thirty years working in the New Zealand intelligence community. In that time he has undertaken a number of roles ranging from investigation and analysis to policy coordination work.
He has worked closely with a number of the organisations associated with the NZIIP.
From 2000 until late 2002, Mike was the Intelligence Coordinator in the Department of the Prime minister and Cabinet.

Mark Boyce — Secretary

Mark is managing director of Intelligence Solutions Limited and, for over 14 years, has provided intelligence capability building consultancy, business analysis and training services to clients internationally and, particularly, throughout the NZ Government sector.

Previously, Mark served 28 years with NZ Police, reaching the rank of Inspector prior to taking early retirement to concentrate on his business interests.

Trained as both an Intelligence Analyst and Detective, Mark has held various national intelligence positions within Police, including: national trainer; training development officer (he co-developed the Australia/New Zealand Competency Standards for Intelligence Officers); Intelligence Manager for the National Bureau of Criminal Intelligence (including the 9/11 response period) and national manager of business analysts for the Police ICT Group.

Based in Wellington, Mark has served as NZIIP Secretary since the foundation of the institute.

Graham Cowle — Treasurer

Graham Cowle is an Inspector with NZ Police and currently holds the position of Policing Development Manager for Wellington District.

Graham has extensive experience in intelligence and investigations in NZ and the UK where he worked for the Home Office. Graham completed his Masters of Strategic Studies at Victoria University Wellington where he also lectures part time in Intelligence Led Enforcement, Counter Terrorism and Community Policing. Graham is currently researching area’s for futures Leadership needs.

Graham is based in Wellington and has served on the NZIIP Committee since 2008 and as Treasurer since 2009.

Mark Herrick

Mark Herrick has been an intelligence analyst practitioner for six years, with posts both here in New Zealand and in the United Kingdom. Currently working as a Senior Risk Analyst for Lumley Insurance, he previously worked as a serious crime Lead Analyst for the Organised & Financial Crime Agency NZ.

His specific area of expertise relates to transnational organised crime activity and this is an area that he hopes to lead in on behalf of New Zealand’s intelligence community in the future. He has worked in New Zealand for the last three years since returning from a long stay in the UK. While in the UK Mark trained under the National Intelligence Model and then worked in a variety of posts for the South Yorkshire Police.

Mark holds a Masters in International Communications from the University of Leeds (UK) and is currently in his third year of a second Masters, awarded by scholarship, in Criminal Intelligence from Charles Sturt University (Australia).

Andrea Johnston

Andrea Johnston has been a member of NZIIP since 2008, joining the committee in 2010. She is a sworn Police Officer with over 14 years experience in Police intelligence. In her current role she runs a team of analysts for the Waikato Police District.

Andrea started her intelligence work as a crime analyst at Wellington District. Around 2001 she was heavily involved in establishing a national intelligence capability for road policing. Since then she has been working at a tactical level in the rural area of Eastern Waikato, and subsequently taken a more strategic role at Waikato District Headquarters. Andrea contributes to national training in crime pattern analysis.

Richard Shortt

Richard is a career police officer having spent 30 years working for NZ Police. During that time he worked in a wide range of roles including General duties (uniform work), CIB duties (detective work) and management activities, including time at the Royal NZ Police College.

In 2003 he was seconded to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet to work with the Domestic and External Security Group (DESG) as an advisor on issues related to national security after which he become the first permanent manager of the Combined Threat Assessment Group (CTAG).

After almost three years with CTAG, Richard returned to police to work on the establishment of the Organised & Financial Crime Agency NZ (OFCANZ). He currently holds the position of Strategy & Liaison Manager with OFCANZ.

Ishula Stuart

Details to come.

Gavin Thompson

Gavin is the Director of Products and Services of the Geospatial Intelligence Organisation (GIO), NZDF. He spent 21 years in the RNZN and has been with NZDF Geospatial organisations for the last 9 years.
The NZDF has moved into geospatial intelligence over the last 4 years and Gavin has been responsible for many of the initiatives to achieve the change.

Gavin is based in Auckland and works within the Devonport Naval Base and has served on the NZIIP Committee since 2009.

Patron

The New Zealand Institute of Intelligence Professionals is proud to have as its patron Dr Warren Tucker, Chief Executive of the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service and Director of Security.

Dr Warren Tucker — Patron

Warren Tucker was born in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, on 18 August 1950, and grew up in Nelson.

Warren was educated at Nelson College and the University of Canterbury.  He graduated BE (Hons) and PhD (both in Electrical Engineering) in 1973 and 1978 respectively and qualified as a Registered Engineer.  After a brief spell with the Post Office, Warren joined the New Zealand Army (RNZ Sigs) in 1979 as a specialist Defence communications systems planner.  He retired from the Army in 1982 (with the rank of Major) and joined the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB).  He held a variety of roles during his career in the GCSB, including a posting to the National Security Agency in Washington as the first formally accredited New Zealand Liaison Officer (NZLOW).  He returned to GCSB in September 1989 as Director, SIGINT Operations.  On 1 July 1996 he was appointed Intelligence Coordinator in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.

Warren was appointed Director of the Government Communications Security Bureau with effect 13 December 1999.

On 1 November 2000 he was appointed Colonel Commandant of the Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals (with the rank of Honorary Colonel), a position he still holds.

He took up the position as Director of Security, New Zealand Security Intelligence Service, on 1 November 2006.

Warren is a founding member and Patron of the New Zealand Institute of Intelligence Professionals (NZIIP).

Warren and his wife Pauline have five children ranging in age from mid 30s to late teens, and several young grandchildren.  In addition to reading and music (tastes - eclectic), he enjoys outdoor pursuits including walking and boating and his small farm with its large garden in the heart of the Wairarapa.  He aspires to build fine furniture and small boats.