Lisa Charles
Elected at the 2022 AGM, 3-year term, entering the start of her 2nd year.
Lisa is a Chartered Accountant with experience in both public and private practice, both in NZ and overseas. This has allowed her the opportunity to develop a wide range of skills and experience in the profession. Lisa is married to Simon and they have two sons, Oliver and Sam. As a family they are actively involved in sport, with all four of them playing a number of summer and winter sports.
Lisa is a New Zealand qualified Netball umpire and umpire coach, and has been a recent member of the Games Officials Committee for the Nelson Netball Centre which supports the development of netball officials.
Paul Egan
3-year appointed term started 2023.
Working in the Local Government, Paul is a commercially oriented Charted Accountant experienced with a wide range of organisations Boards and Committees, both for profit and non-profit. This includes experience with the Christchurch Netball Centre’s Men’s Netball Sub-Committee, YHA NZ, Nelmac, and civil contracting companies to name a few.
He has hands on experience with Health & Safety in civil contracting companies, has been involved in incident investigations and has put in place organisation wide initiatives to improve Health & Safety outcomes.
A netball husband, and dad, Paul played netball for many years and still occasionally laces up the shoes and gets out on court however most of his time is now spent on the sideline as an umpire at Nelson Netball Centre.
Jared Lock
Board Secretary, Appointed by the Board.
Jared has been involved in netball for over 20 years as a player, umpire, a small coaching stint and as the previous Centre Manager at Nelson Netball.
Jared is a former NZ Men’s Netball player and still playing for the Nelson Men's Team, netball is his passion. With a professional background in Finance, Accounting and Business Management, he contracts to Nelson Netball Centre as the Business Manager and has been appointed by the board as their Secretary.
Sarah Frost
Co-opted into the appointed vacancy 2023
We are thrilled to welcome Sarah Frost to the Nelson Netball Board! Sarah played netball for Orewa throughout her childhood and continued to play socially as adult in Auckland, Queenstown, and Nelson. Sarah has exceptional experience in leading the ANZ Netball Sponsorship Activations & Promotional Roadshow.