Board of Directors
The WWL Board is committed to a high standard of corporate governance and regulatory compliance in guiding and monitoring WWL’s activities. The three directors are appointed for a period of four years.
David Wright, Chair
David is a company chair, management consultant and former chief executive. He was appointed chair of WWL in February 2020, having joined the board as a founding director in 2019.
Doug Hattersley, Director
Doug has over 45 years’ engineering and project management experience on large infrastructure projects. He is a founding director of WWL.
Bruno Simpson, Director
Bruno is the CEO and Managing Director of Waimea Group and a director. He is a founding director of WWL.
Key staff
Kelly Norris, General Manager
Kelly has more than two decades of experience in the water industry working in different aspects of infrastructure design and management. Having worked as a consultant and asset owner, leading operational teams, he is passionate about using technology to streamline day-to-day activities and to improve asset management practices.
Kelly joined WWL in July 2025 to lead the operational team.
Dave Ashcroft, Chief Financial Officer
Dave has significant commercial experience across a variety of industry sectors in New Zealand, Australia, the United States and Europe.
He ensures WWL meets the accounting and financial requirements and expectations of the legislation, shareholders, financer and auditor.
Alasdair Mawdsley, Operations Manager
Alasdair has more than a decade’s of environmental management experience on projects around New Zealand.
He was appointed Operations Manager at WWL in 2023 to prepare the organisation for dam operations. He was previously Environment and Sustainability Manager.
