Raveen Jaduram is the Chief Executive Officer of Manukau Water Limited, a company owned by Manukau City Council.  The organisation is responsible for providing retail water and wastewater services to over 338,000 consumers.

Prior to that, Raveen held senior management roles at Metro Water Limited and Watercare Services Limited, in Auckland.  He has held various positions at the Auckland Regional Council and, prior to that, the Auckland City Council.

Raveen has honours and masters degrees in civil engineering from the University of Auckland.  He has undertaken a number of post-graduate management studies, including those from the Stanford University in California, Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Australia, and the University of Auckland.

Raveen was on the Board of the New Zealand Water and Wastes Association between 2001 and 2006, and was President and Chairman for the 2004-05 year.

He was the New Zealand Director on the House of Delegates, Water Environment Federation, and served on its Constitution and Bylaws Committee for three years to October 2006.

Raveen has worked with other technical and not-for-profit groups.  He has been on an advisory group of the Ministry of Health on drinking water quality for a number of years.  Between 1998 and 2001, he served on the management committee of the New Zealand Society on Large Dams.  Until recently, he was on the management committee of the New Zealand Water Environment Training Academy.

Raveen has special interests in engineering management and has given seminars on risk and asset management, and on public sector procurement and performance based contracting.  He has been a guest lecturer on asset management to post-graduate students at the University of Auckland for the past five years.

Raveen, a recipient of the Future Directors Award from the Ministry of Research Science and Technology in 2002, was elected a Fellow of the Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand in April 2004.

David is responsible for the delivery of capital and maintenance works on the national grid.

This includes projects for the grid and for customer connections, environment and property issues, engineering of the grid, maintenance contracts, regional operating centres, and customer relationships.

David has over 35 years experience in various senior engineering and executive management roles in the electricity transmission and distribution industry within Queensland.  He has been with Transpower since January 2004, and previously held senior roles within ENERGEX and Powerlink in Queensland.

John is currently the Manager of Water and Waste Services for the Dunedin City Council and commenced his engineering career over thirty years ago as a cadet with the Ministry of Works and Development in the mid 1970’s.

Since that time he has gained over 20 years experience working in local government roles in New Zealand, primarily in the water utility sector in both small authorities such as Te Awamutu Borough and larger metropolitan centres including Hamilton City.

Prior to commencing with Dunedin City in 2006, John spent almost ten years working in the private sector, firstly as the New Zealand Manager of the US based wastewater diagnostic company, ADS Environmental Services Ltd and later headed the New Zealand branch of the Australian company, Abigroup Asset Services Ltd, who successfully bid the network maintenance contract for Metrowater in 2002.

Being Scottish born, moving to the “Edinburgh of the South”, seemed like a perfectly logical career choice for John as Dunedin also presented the challenge of being one of New Zealand’s most mature heritage cities with some of the country’s oldest infrastructure to attend to.

Lewis Trigger is returning again in 2007 after the resounding popularity of his Masterclass last year. Lewis is a leading international expert in advanced management practices. Today he heads his own Company, based in Israel that provides Industrial Engineering Consultancy and Workshops specializing in the following areas: Project Management, Constraint Management, Scheduling, Quality Assurance, Productivity Investigations, Metrics, and Work Flow Design.