Terry MacDonald - Chairperson

Terry has been involved in information security for over 19 years. He has been a major contributor to the STIX, TAXII, and CybOX threat intelligence sharing standards through his work on the OASIS Cyber Threat Intelligence Technical Committee, and has provided advisory services to major vendors such as Microsoft and Soltra. He is co-chair of the FIRST Information Exchange Policy Special Interest Group (IEP-SIG) and is a NZITF board member. Terry has worked in various roles during that time, spanning Security Operations, Policy, Planning, Design, Business Development and Product Development. Terry co-founded the Spark NZ Security Operations Team, has worked in senior roles at the Cisco Managed Threat Defense centre and helped Microsoft develop their internal Threat Intelligence Management solution. In recent years Terry has focused on helping organizations integrate threat intelligence, incident response and policy planning together, to gain the most benefit from their information security programmes. He currently works for Cosive as Chief Operating Officer and Senior Security Consultant. He has the CISSP, GCIA, and GCIA certifications in addition to numerous vendor specific qualifications.

Ivan Reutskiy - Secretary

20 years of experience in information technology, the bulk of it in the telecommunication industry in systems and storage engineering, as well as technology management roles. Last five years specialising in information security and looking after all things information security in one of the country's larger telco/ISPs. Have a good understanding of how inner piping of the Internet works as well as most of the infrastructure that sits on top of it. Have a keen passion for all things telco and information security; still learning lots of things and always hoping to make things a bit better each time I do them.

Tandi McCarthy - Membership Officer

Tandi has been an Information Security Practitioner coming up ten years after transferring from Risk and Compliance roles. She is currently a Security Consultant in the vCISO team at ZX Security, however the bulk of Tandi’s Information Security work has been as a Public Servant managing both Security Assurance and Security Operation functions.

A trustee and previous Chair of multiple forums, most recently Chair for the Government Information Security Forum with a membership spanning from 40 NZ Government agencies, Tandi joined the NZITF board in 2021 and has been a member since 2019.

She thrives on helping to make NZ a safe and secure eco-system and believes forums like NZITF create opportunities to enable the right outcomes to do so. Tandi is a champion for having a balance of doing the right thing and taking calculated risks, making informed decisions and striving to do better to ensure great things happen. She is also a champion for diversity and equality and has run an IT Women’s network, and Women’s Network Committee.

Ben Creet - Vice Chair & Treasurer

Ben is a policy analyst, technology geek and cybersecurity professional. Ben is a Principal Advisor in the Public Service where he helps set information security standards across government and works to help the public service improve its information security posture.

Ben joined the NZITF in 2012 and he has a Masters of Strategic Studies from Victoria University of Wellington.

Andy Prow

Andy is a passionate and successful NZ serial entrepreneur, specializing in Cyber Security.

A technologist at heart, he has worked in IT for 27 years, both in NZ, the UK and Europe, from small start-ups to global giants like Vodafone, Ericsson and IBM. In his career he’s made the transition from Software Developer, to Pen-Tester, to IT Consultant, to Entrepreneur and has founded and run 5 successful IT companies, raised investment capital from NZ and overseas, and has had several successful company exits. Andy’s core technology strength is in the Cyber-Security realm, having founded one of NZ’s leading penetration and ethical hacking companies, Aura InfoSec, and then founding RedShield, a niche web-application defence company, with customers and staff in NZ, Australia, UK, Sweden and from coast to coast across the USA. Andy’s companies have had awesome recognition, winning awards such as the NZ HiTech Awards (including HiTech Software Product of the Year, HiTech Service of the Year, and HiTech Emerging Company of the Year), Deloitte Fast 50, Deloitte APAC Tech Fast 500 for fastest growing revenue, and Andy himself was an EY NZ Entrepreneur of the Year 2017.

Andy’s a hardcore advocate for not only improving the online safety and privacy of New Zealanders, but also improving and boosting NZ’s digital economy.

Ray Chow

Ray Chow is passionate to make the internet safer for all New Zealanders. He has been in the Information Security Industry for over 15 years and has worked across various industries in Government and Private Sector. He has previously held roles with law enforcement responsibilities at Department of Internal Affairs and security leadership roles at Westpac and New Zealand Post.

He is experienced in Incident response, security operations & stakeholder management. In recent years his focus has shifted towards the challenges in securing human beings. Currently, he leads Westpac's Cyber Security Advisory team.

Ray has been an active New Zealand Internet Task Force member since inception, and currently mentors on the Internet Task Force mentoring programme. He spends his free time volunteering for Summer of Tech to support the upcoming generation of talents.

Eric Light

Eric has been an NZITF member since early 2018, and was co-opted onto the Board in October 2022 to cover Reyna Ramirez Montes’s maternity leave.

A familiar face in many NZ security circles, community is one of Eric's passions. He stepped down as Vice President of the NZ Python User Group in 2022 after almost ten years on the committee, he has been an admin of the InfoSecNZ Community (previously Slack, now Discord) since 2017, and has been co-organiser of Hamilton ISIG since it's inception in 2021.

Today Eric is a Cybersecurity Consultant in the GRC squad at Air New Zealand, where he represents cybersecurity in project assessments, supports maintenance of the digital policy portfolio, and tries to make sure the left hand knows what the right hand is doing.