Dennis Lynch - NZ Managing Director
 Dennis is a specialist in strategic direction, issues management and is the head of Network PR's Finance Group. As New Zealand Managing Director he provides senior counsel to many of the consultancy's leading clients.
Dennis' strategy development skills has seen him involved in corporate positioning, company IPOs, takeovers and defences, government relations, and crisis and issues management.
Under his direction, the consultancy has implemented communication programmes which have won numerous international and New Zealand PR awards.
Geoff Henley - General Manager, Wellington
 Geoff is a director of Network PR and General Manager of the Wellington office. Geoff has managed some of Network PR's largest client projects in the public, private and community sectors.
He has extensive experience in the health sector, ranging from advising the Government on the 1992 health reforms through to present day roles advising public and private hospitals, health funding organisations and community-based health providers.
He is also experienced in social marketing, having advised on such seminal changes as the introduction of the Smokefree legislation and public education campaigns.
In the private sector, Geoff's client range includes the primary sector, food, pharmaceutical, insurance and finance industries. Geoff has an MA in Social Administration, is a PRINZ Fellow and a member of the Institute's ethics committee.
Jane Dodd - General Manager, Auckland
 As General Manager of the Auckland office, Jane maintains a strategic overview of client accounts, undertaking regular reviews and evaluations of client servicing teams to ensure top performance. She is one of the country's leading brand PR consultants with numerous award winning campaigns to her credit and has been responsible for a number of large PR programmes that have achieved significant shifts in audience awareness and attitudes.
As a dietitian, Jane provides counsel to some of the biggest names in food manufacturing in New Zealand, including Heinz Wattie's, Coca-Cola
Oceania and the New Zealand Sugar Company.
Jane has been with Network PR more than 12 years. Her award winning work during that time includes PRINZ awards for Outstanding Marketing projects.
Clare England - Account Director
 Clare's media expertise, strategic counsel and issues management experience are highly valued by her clients. She has managed large campaigns for a range of high profile corporate and commercial clients across many industries.
In the finance sector, Clare has been integral to ensuring ASB Bank lives up to its One Step Ahead positioning, advising at the senior levels of management on media, strategy and sponsorship management. She has overseen the launch of award winning technology initiatives, worked closely with all tiers of the bank to introduce complex changes, and helped communicate these to customers.
Clare has developed a number of effective brand and media programmes for clients in the pharmaceutical, finance, insurance and FMCG sectors.
Marie Hosking - Account Director
 Marie comes from a strong media background having spent much of her career as a journalist. She was a specialist health reporter before switching her attention to politics working in the Parliamentary Press Gallery as a Senior Journalist for Radio New Zealand. She has also worked as a Government Press Secretary.
More recently, Marie has transferred her skills to the PR industry. Media knowledge, contacts and strategy are among her core strengths and she is often consulted on media strategy for key clients across the consultancy.
Prior to joining Network PR, Marie was part of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' communications team for the APEC'99 conference in Auckland, handling media for the arrivals of all Heads of State, including President Bill Clinton. She has also worked in television production including the top rating 'Location, Location, Location' series and on a Qantas Award winning documentary.
Simone Bell - Account Director
As an account director and the head of the Network PR Food Group, Simone is responsible for planning programmes on behalf of a range of clients with a particular focus in the areas of food and brand communications. Her range of specialist skills encompasses the full public relations spectrum from events to media and publications. Simone completed the Marketing Association's Certificate of Direct Marketing in 2005 and often includes principles of direct marketing in relevant client programmes.
Working with key opinion leaders on behalf of clients is one of Simone's strengths, with many of the PR programmes she leads based on communicating through influence in a credible and ethical manner.
Simone is an active member of the New Zealand Guild of Food Writers and currently manages membership services for the Guild on a voluntary basis.
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