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Curriculum Vitae

Martin Hawes
Personal Details
Key Skills and Attributes
Areas of Expertise
Present Employment and Activities
Previous roles
Past employment
Education
Interests
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Personal Details:

Name: Martin Hawes
Address: PO Box 1108, Queenstown, New Zealand
Phone: 03 442 3328    021 22 22 737
Email: martin@martinhawes.com
Date of birth: 19 June 1952 Timaru, New Zealand

 

 

Key Skills and Attributes:

  • Excellent presentation and communication skills
    •      (approx 50 presentations each year)
  • Author of sixteen books and numerous articles -
    •      written from consumer perspective
  • Ability to source, absorb and process information and put into readily
    •      understandable terms
  • Commercial expertise
  • Finance and investment acumen
  • Governance experience
  • Wide business experience (as an owner, director and consultant)
  • Public awareness and involvement; contact with communities around
        New Zealand
  • Good media skills
  • Leadership skills

    • Areas of expertise

  • Real estate (commercial and residential)
  • Shares
  • Investment theory
  • Finance
  • Family Trusts/succession
  • Governance
  • Communication
  • Goal setting and strategic planning

    • Present employment and activities:

  • Financial adviser and consultant to individuals and organizations
  • Columnist, Herald on Sunday
  • Media commentator
  • Seminar presenter
  • Member of the Wakatipu Health Reference Group

    • Author of books on finance:

      • Shares and Property (Penguin 1988)
      • Family Trusts – A New Zealand Guide (Shoal bay Press 1995)
      • Property Investment (Shoal bay Press 1996)
      • Taxation in New Zealand (Shoal Bay Press 1997)
      • Save Money on Your Mortgage (Penguin 1998)
      • Successful Super (Penguin 1999)
      • Eight Secrets of Investment Success (Penguin 2000)
      • Money and Divorce (Penguin 2000)
      • Shares – Seven ways to beat the market (Penguin 2001)
      • Family Trusts: 77 Frequently Asked Questions (Shoal Bay Press 1999)
      • Managing Family Trusts (Shoal Bay Press 2003)
      • Financial Secrets: The New Zealand Guide to Everyday Finances
        (Shoal Bay Press )
      • Five Ways to Save More Money on Your Mortgage (Penguin 1999)
      • Twenty Good Summers (Allen and Unwin 2006)
      • The School of Home Truths – Lessons for buying and selling property in NZ (Shoal Bay Press 2007)
      • Investing for Twenty Good Summers (Allen and Unwin 2009)
      • "Letters to Aston - lessons learned from a lifetime of investment" (Penguin 2009)
      • "The Money Map" (2011)

    Previous roles

    Columnist North and South, High Society
    and Directions magazines (1998 – 2006), Accountants Journal.

    Columnist New Zealand Herald

    Independent Company Director

    Presenter (seminars and keynote addresses)
    for a wide range companies and organizations (1986 - ).

    Presenter “Financial Secrets” TV One (2001-2003)

    President, Save the Children New Zealand

    Chair, Waitaki Foundation

    Trustee, Wakatipu Trails Trust

     

    Expert/presenter “The school of Home Truths” TV One (2007)

    Trustee, Community Trust of Southland (2003-2007)

     

     

     

    Past employment:

    1987-1997

    		Director/Shareholder

    Wood Rivers Hawes & Co

    (Business consultancy)

    1978-1986

    		 Director/Shareholder

    Pasar Imports Ltd

    (Fabric and clothing importing and retailing company)

    1976-1978

    		 Teaching ( Dunedin and London )

    Education:

     


    Dunedin Teachers College/Otago University            
    (DTC Students Assn President 1975)

    		 1971-1975

    Waitaki Boys High School  
    (Head Boy 1970)

    		1966-1970

    Interests:

     

    Mountaineering (attempted Mt Everest 1995)                   
    Tramping
    Rock Climbing                   
    Skiing                   
    Rugby     (a spectator now!)                   
    Cricket (mostly a spectator)                   
    Cycling                   
    Politics/History/Classics
     

     
     


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