Stella Ward
Executive Director, Cloud Programme
Department of Internal Affairs

Stella Ward is the Executive Director – Government Cloud Programme.  This is a key leadership role for a major All-of-Government programme of work. Stella is a member of the Senior Leadership Team of the Digital Public Service Branch in the Department of Internal affairs. 

Stella is an experienced digital leader with strong functional leadership expertise. As a respected senior executive Stella’s career has been centred on the health sector – 14 years in executive roles across three District Health Boards initially with Allied Health and more recently as Chief Digital Officer with the Canterbury and West Coast District Health Board.  

In that capacity she has been instrumental in the design and execution of digital and ICT strategy and oversight of large scale digital modernisation programme for all elements of the business including the cloud business transformation, the future of work and development of ICT staff for modern digital service delivery. 

Stella is a Fellow of Health Informatics New Zealand. Stella has also served in a governance capacity on boards including the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Global Advisory Board and as a Director of the New Zealand Health Innovation Hub.  Her leadership capabilities also resulted in being a finalist for CIO of the Year in 2020.  

Trisha Rozas
VP Strategic Accounts
Cloud Technology Partners

Trisha Rozas is a strategic business and technology executive with over 20 years of expertise providing IT leadership and direction to multi-billion-dollar enterprises. As Vice President of Strategic Accounts with Cloud Technology Partners (CTP), a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, Rozas leads the Strategic Accounts group, serving as a critical link between CTP and its clients. She is responsible for ensuring clients’ goals are established and met, as well as overseeing the professional service teams performing the work. 

Rozas has worked for leading Fortune 1000 companies across the financial services industry including AIG, Marsh & McLennan, Goldman Sachs and the CIT Group Inc. She has led global development teams to deliver enterprise data warehouse programs, sales support solutions and business process management systems (ERP). She has worked with many leading software packages and developed customer apps for multi-platform use. 

Prior to joining CTP, Rozas served as VP of service delivery for ThoughtFocus, a consulting firm; CIO for the Navigators Group, a global specialty insurance firm; and VP of Technology for Goldman Sachs.

Victoria Brevoort
Nursing Informatics Manager
Ryman Healthcare

Victoria is a registered nurse with a Master of Nursing Degree from Massey University. As Ryman Healthcare’s Nursing Informatics Manager, she leads the Operations Clinical Systems team of nurses and health professionals.

Victoria works closely with the Information Technology development team, including user interface designers and test analysts.

Over the past four years she has provided the clinical context for the development of Ryman’s bespoke patient management digital care planning application, myRyman.

The myRyman Care application is used by 3,800 residents and has been overseen by Victoria and the dedicated IT development and production support team. It replaced a paper-based system and is used in 41 operational retirement villages throughout New Zealand and Australia.

She has helped develop the creation of online assessments; clinical care event workflows; and smart links between various clinical processes and systems to reduce error and increase ease of use.

Victoria runs reports that highlight areas of clinical concern gathered from interpreting myRyman’s data, so that clinical outcomes are improved.

Her aim is to lead the evolution of myRyman Care to further improve resident outcomes.

As new features are developed, including enhancements to current features within the application, these are converted into a cloud-based platform allowing for greater functionality and possibility.

Grant Taylor
Chief Information Officer
Whakarongorau Aotearoa New Zealand Telehealth Services

Grant has extensive experience in both the public and private sectors as a CIO and CDO. His Healthcare experience started at the Southern DHB where he implemented a single patient management system and suite of clinical systems across Southland and Otago. Grant has been CIO for Kathmandu, successfully leading them through a systems transformation project. More recently Grant lead the ERP project for the Gough Group, which was a critical component in achieving the successful sale of the business in 2019. Prior to starting at Homecare Medical in October 2020, Grant had been working at digital travel company Online Republic, with a focus on agile web development.

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Rebecca McBeth
HiNZ News Editor

Rebecca McBeth joined the HiNZ team as editor of eHealthNews.nz in January 2018. Rebecca was previously news editor at Digital Health Intelligence in London and prior to that, was the senior health reporter at The Christchurch Press, where she won a NZ Canon Media Award and a NZ Reporting Diversity award. Based in Auckland, she is committed to communicating news, experience and knowledge throughout New Zealand’s data and digital health sector.