Sir Paul Collins | |
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Born | Paul David Collins 27 February 1953 Wellington, New Zealand |
Occupation | Businessman |
Sir Paul David Collins KNZM (born 27 February 1953) [1] is a New Zealand businessman and sports administrator.
Collins was born in Wellington in 1953. He has family ties to Martinborough and has lived there since the early 2000s. [2] He was chief executive of Brierley Investments between 1985 and 1998, and was active the boards of several sporting bodies. [3] He served as a governor of the New Zealand Sports Foundation from 1986, and was chair of the organisation from 1992 to 1999. [3] He later chaired Sport New Zealand, formed by the merger of the Sports Foundation and the Hillary Commission. [3] Collins was an inaugural trustee of Wellington Regional Stadium Trust from 1994, and chaired the trust between 2000 and 2012. [3] He was also a member of the board of the Wellington Rugby Football Union and a director of the Hurricanes franchise. [3] Collins was a member of the committee that secured New Zealand's hosting of the 2011 Rugby World Cup. [3] Collins was a director of construction company Mainzeal when it went into receivership in February 2013. [4]
In the 2015 New Year Honours, Collins was appointed a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to sports governance. [5]
Collins was appointed to the Wairarapa District Health Board as chairman by the Minister of Health, Jonathan Coleman, in December 2016. [6] Three years later, he was reappointed by Health Minister David Clark. [7]
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