Meet our Board of Trustees

The NZDF is governed by a board of trustees who are all involved in the provision of dementia care. 
Matthew Croucher - NZDF Chair
Matthew is a senior psychiatrist of old age and academic working for the Canterbury District Health Board.  He has leadership roles in relation to dementia service development with the Canterbury area, the South Island's regional Dementia Initiative, and various national projects including several with the Ministry of Health over the last two decades.  He has medical advisor responsibilities to Parkinson's New Zealand, Alzheimers New Zealand and Dementia Canterbury.  Matthew continues to be active in the RANZCP and other training organisations in relation to teaching and workforce development in psychiatry, including the national Walking in Another's Shoes person-centred dementia care programme, BPAC, and the University of Otago.
David Fleming – NZDF Director of Finance/Trustee
David has over 25 years’ experience across various healthcare delivery sectors, including diagnostic, radiology, dental and consultancy in New Zealand and overseas. He has trained as a chartered accountant and holds a BBus and a Master of Arts. David has worked in executive roles for large multinationals including Deloitte and SGS and also for private equity, managing significant international projects. He is now CEO of Care on Call (NZ) Ltd and Medcall Health Personnel Ltd. Care on Call provides a range of services to ACC, MOH, DHB and private clients with varying needs, including Dementia, Palliative, TBI and Complex Care. Medcall is NZ’s largest provider of staff (RN’s/HCA’s) to the aged care sector and provides staffing to NZ’s private/public hospitals, hospices and specialised facilities.
Cameron Cole
Cameron is a Māori (Te Rarawa) old age psychiatrist working for Te Whatu Ora in Te Tai Tokerau Northland, New Zealand. He is a fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) with an advanced certificate in old age psychiatry. He holds an associate fellowship with the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators (RACMA) and has a post-graduate diploma in health informatics. Cameron is passionate about improving the wellbeing of our older people and their whānau with dementia mate wareware, hauora Māori, rural health and quality improvement. He believes in decision-making being informed by recovery, person & whānau-centred, biopsychosocial and hauora Māori principles.
Heather Gifford
Heather is a Māori health researcher with tribal affiliations to Ngāti Hauiti and Te Ātihaunui a Pāpārangi. Heather is also heamana of  Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Hauiti. 
Heather began her professional career as a nurse working in the field of child and family health. She has also taught at a tertiary level in health services and worked as a manager in Māori health service provision.
Heather returned to tertiary study as a mature student completing a Masters in Public Health (Otago) and a PhD and HRC Postdoctoral Fellowship with Te Pūmanawa Hauora, the Research Centre for Māori Health and Development, Massey University. Her research interests for the last twenty-five years have focused on improving Māori health outcomes within a broader context of public policy, equity and health service delivery, and intervention.
In 2005, in collaboration with Ngāti Hauiti, Heather established Whakauae Research for Māori Health and Development, an iwi-owned Māori health research centre. In 2016, having successfully established the centre, she stepped down as the Director enabling more time for mokopuna and to work in consultancy and governance roles.  
Shannon Wolfe
Shannon has over 13 years of experience in operations roles with a background as an executive in a consumer product startup as well as management consulting experience with Deloitte (NZ) and GE Healthcare (US). Her industry experience is mainly in healthcare but also covers consumer goods & services, energy, public sector, and insurance. She gained her Bachelors with Honours in Economics from the University of California Berkeley. 

Meet our Staff

The NZDF currently has three employees – Executive Director Shereen Moloney, and Sector Liaison Officer Dr. Susan Gee.
Shereen Moloney – Chief Executive 
Shereen has been our Chief Executive  since 2014. She holds Bachelor and Masters degrees, and has spent 20 years in leadership and management roles in the public and private sectors.  She has been a project manager and advisor to the NZ Ministry of Health, a Senior Manager at Capital & Coast District Health Board, and CEO of health and social service, and mental health NGOs. In these roles Shereen has led organisational and service improvement nationally, and represented the 20 District Health Boards on a number of national initiatives. Shereen is also a member of our Board of Trustees.
Susan Gee – Sector Liaison Officer
Susan is an experienced researcher who concurrently holds the position of lead researcher of the Psychiatry of Older Academic Unit for the Canterbury District Health Board.  She holds a PhD in Psychology and a Masters in Gerontology.  Susan has leadership and support roles in relation to dementia education, delirium prevention, and person-centred care and her research and publications reflect and strengthen these foci. She is a research advisor for Dementia Canterbury and co-opted expert for the Health of Older People South Island Service Level Alliance.  Susan brings considerable experience in credible and effective knowledge transfer to help people implement best practice care. Susan is also a member of our Board of Trustees.
 
Bevan Morgan – Project Support Officer
Bevan has worked in education for the last decade in project support, tutoring, resource development, and programme development. He is currently a PhD student at the University of Auckland, working on a thesis in Communications, and he holds a Masters in History. With the New Zealand Dementia Foundation, Bevan supports other members in the projects they are developing across all aspects of the development cycle while bridging communication from the workers in the sector to the Foundation's work.