Patron
Head of State of Samoa His Highness Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Efi
Trustees
Anae Arthur Anae 'Founding Chairman'
Asi Eikeni Fruean
Clyde Young
Judge A’e’au Semi Epati
Tuiloma Neroni Slade
Prof. La'auli Harvey White
Dr Parma Nand
Tim Wilcox
Anae Arthur Anae 'Founding Chairman'
Anae Arthur Anae is a former National Member of the New Zealand Parliament and since 2004 has been Manukau District Council Coucillor for the past 5 years, currently the port folio leader for Economic Development.
Arthur has been an elected Board Member of Counties Manukau District Health Board for last 5 years chairing the Pacific Health advisory committee, is a Trustee of the Counties Manukau Sports Trust and the Sir John Walker Find Your Field of Dreams Trust. He is also a Board member of the Manukau Institute of Technology and has variety of business interests. Arthur is the inaugural chair of the New Zealand Good Samaritan Heart Mission to Samoa Trust.
Asi Eikeni Fruean
Asi Eikeni Fruean was born in Samoa, educated at Leififi and Samoa College and won scholarships to Wellington, NZ and Sydney, Australia. He graduated at School of Graphic Arts at Unitec Ultimo Sydney, Australia. Asi Fruean was appointed Government Printer on return to Samoa and served the Government for 10 years, started his own printing and publishing company in Apia 1968 – 1992. He is a past President of SCOPA, a past president of the Chamber of Commerce, a foundation member of Rotary Apia, past President of the Western Samoa Amateur Weight Lifting Association and past Chairman of Catholic Church Archdiocese of Apia Samoa, Pago Pago and Tokelau Islands.
Asi Fruean has been a Member of the Samoa Parliament and Cabinet Minister of State for Justice, Labour, Economic Affairs, Civil Aviation Transport and Shipping under the Tupuola Efi government. He is n ow retired with 7 very active grandchildren and enjoying life with family and good friends.
Clyde Young
Born in Samoa, Clyde immigrated with his family to New Zealand in 1965.He attended Auckland University qualifying with a Bachelor of Commerce. Until 1988 he taught at Lynfield College and Otahuhu College. Clyde left teaching in 1988 to join O'Halloran HMT and became a partner in 1995.
He was the Chairman of the Pacific Island Chamber of Commerce between 1997 and 1999. He was a board member of Enterprising Manukau from 2000 - 2009 and on the Advisory Board of the Accountancy Law and Finance Faculty at UNITEC.
In addition, he was appointed by the Hon. Trevor Mallard in 2004 to Chair the Pasifika Education Centre. a member of UNITEC’s Fono Faufautua’s Pacific Advisory Board.
Clyde's areas of expertise are management and governance advice. He currently works with businesses and not for profit clients advising them on governance, management, accounting and strategic issues.
Judge A’e’au Semi Epati
Judge A’e’au Semi Epati was born and educated in Samoa . He graduated from Otago University with a BA (major in Philosophy) and LLB. Judge Epati returned to Samoa , where he worked at the Attorney-General's office and then in private practice. Judge Epati began practicing law in New Zealand in 1989 where he worked in an law firm before practicing on his own in 1990. He was admitted to the bar in not only in New Zealand but also Western Samoa, American Samoa, Tonga, Niue, Vanuatu, Kiribati and Hawaii, and has served as Attorney General of Niue and Temporary Magistrate in Western Samoa .
He was appointment to the Bench in 2002, the first Pacific Island judge in New Zealand . Judge Epati presides over Jury trials, Criminal and Civil jurisdiction.
Tuiloma Neroni Slade
Tuiloma Neroni Slade is the Secretary-General of the Pacific Islands Forum. Prior to taking up this post, he was a Judge of the International Criminal Court in The Hague , and had served as Samoa 's Ambassador to the United States and permanent representative to the United Nations. He had also served as a senior legal adviser with the Commonwealth Secretraiat in London and before that as Attorney General of Samoa.
Prof. La'auli Harvey White
Prof. Harvey White is director of the Coronary Care and Green Lane Cardiovascular Research Unit, Green Lane Cardiovascular Service, Auckland City Hospital, He is an Honorary Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Auckland, a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, a Fellow of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand, a Fellow of American College of Cardiology, a Fellow of European Society of Cardiology and Fellow of Royal Australasian College of Physicians. He received a MBChB and Doctorate of Science from the University of Otago , New Zealand in 1973 and 1995 respectively.
In 1994 he went to Samoa as part of the New Zealand Government aid programme and attended outpatient clinics and wrote a review of cardiology services in Samoa . He became an honorary La'auli in Lalomalava, Samoa. In 1997 he was a consultant for the World Health Organization to Western Samoa . In 1998 he returned to Samoa as part of the New Zealand Government aid programme where he attended outpatient clinics and wrote a further review of cardiology services in Samoa on his return. In 2000 he gave a Eulogy at the funeral of Prime Minister Alesana of Samoa . In 2008 he became a founding member of the Trustee of New Zealand Good Samaritan Heart Mission to Samoa Trust.
Dr Parma Nand
Dr Parma Nand is a consultant cardiothoracic and vascular surgeon in the Green
Lane Cardiothoracic Unit at Auckland City Hospital and at Mercy Hospital
Auckland. A graduate of the the University of the South Pacific, Suva Fiji, Dr.
Nand completed specialist training in the UK, Canada and Green Lane Hopspital.
Dr. Nand’s specialist interests include aortic surgery, valvular repair surgery, coronary artery graft surgery and transplantation.
Parma has had a long held vision to provide open heart surgery to the needy in the Pacific Islands. He has headed open heart surgery missions to Fiji since 2006 and led the first open heart surgery mission to Samoa in 2007 and a second mission in 2008.
He also concieved the idea of forming The New Zealand Good Samaritan Heart mission to Samoa Trust.
Tim Willcox is a certified clinical perfusionist and is the chief perfusionist at the Green Lane Cardiothoracic Unit at Auckland City Hospital. He is an honarary senior lecturer in the department of Anesthesiology at the University of Auckland, is a past president of the Australia and New Zealand College of Perfusionists, has served on the Australasian Board of Cardiovascular Perfusion and is the founding chair of Perfusion Downunder – an organisation advancing perfusion practice in Australasia. Tim has a research focus on microemboli in cardiac surgery and is widely published in the perfusion literature. He has been the co-ordinator for the two cardiac sugery missions to Samoa and instrumental in the establishment of the Trust.
