Terry MacDonald - Chairperson

Terry has been involved in information security for over 21 years. He has been a major contributor to the STIX/TAXII cyber 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, EclecticIQ and Soltra. He is co-chair of the FIRST Information Exchange Policy Special Interest Group (IEP-SIG) and is the NZITF Chairperson. 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 Principal Security Consultant.

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 - Treasurer

Ben Creet is a cyber security professional, technology geek and recovering public policy nerd. Ben works on cyber security strategy, risk and governance issues in the public service where he helps set information security standards across government and works to help raise cyber resilience across the motu.

Andy Prow

Inducted into the iSANZ InfoSec Hall of Fame in 2022, Andy is an experienced board member and NZ tech-entrepreneur with a deep passion for cyber-security and the digital safety of New Zealand and New Zealanders. Andy is also on the board of NZTech (representing over 1,000 NZ tech companies, $20bn of GDP and our 2nd largest export sector) and Chairs the NZTech Digital Safety Sub-Board. 

A technologist at heart, Andy’s worked in IT for 27 years, both in NZ, the UK and Europe and the USA. Transitioning from software developer, to pen-tester, to IT consultant, to entrepreneur and has founded and run 5 successful IT companies, including Aura InfoSec, and RedShield Security, scooping up a variety of awards such as the NZ HiTech Awards, Deloitte NZ Fast 50 & APAC Tech Fast 500 and even EY NZ Entrepreneur of the Year 2017 (Services Company).

Andy’s now a hardcore advocate for Digital Safety, focusing on actual human health and safety in our modern digital world, maturing the thinking from “is this system secure?” to “is this product safe?”

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

A familiar face in many NZ security circles, community is one of Eric's passions. Eric has been an NZITF member since early 2018 and joined the Board in October 2022. He has been an admin of the InfoSecNZ Community (previously Slack, now Discord) since 2017, is an active member of a handful of other infosec trust groups, been co-organiser Hamilton ISIG since it's inception in 2021, and recently stepped down as Vice President of the NZ Python User Group after almost ten years on the committee.

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