Libby Magnusson

Elected to the Trust Board since 2013 Libby is the current Deputy Chairperson. Libby’s schooling took place in Auckland then to Business College and onto her first job with a Share Broking firm, various clerical positions followed. Marriage, to Bob, took them...

Rosamund Scoffham

A member of the Trust Board since 2007. Rosamund was born in Thames and brought up in Auckland. She spent many years overseas due to her husband’s work as a geophysicist. She lived in West Africa, South America, the Middle East and the U.K. She has always been...

Stephen Western

Elected to the Trust Board in 2010. Stephen is a talented professional photographer and local businessman running Russell-based Kingfisher Yacht Charters with his wife, Sue, as well as his photography business. Born in Devonport and brought up in Mt Roskill, Stephen...

Bernard Woodcock

Elected to the Board 2010. At 17, Bernard attended Elam School of Fine Art. Four years later, in 1969, he and his wife, Maureen, returned to Russell ‘because it was home’. Bernard, Maureen and their son Lukas have lived and traveled in north and mid USA...

Ailsa Murray

Elected to the Trust Board in 2010. Originally from Hawkes Bay, Alisa came to Russell in 1974 looking for a change of pace after five years of clothing design in London. Embracing the Russell lifestyle, she became a skipper for Fullers in 1978. After having traveled...