Our Executive Team

Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga

Te Pūkenga Regional Director Rohe 1

Responsibilities: Pasifika Strategy and Success, Pasifika Development Office (MIT), Enrolment, Marketing, Communications, Industry Partnerships, External Relations / Engagement, International, Timetabling, Graduation, Alumni, Health centre (Unitec) and health provider relationship (MIT)

Michelle Teirney
DCE Operations

Responsibilities: Infrastructure, Technology, Audit, Risk & Assurance, PMO, Finance, Finance Business Partnering, Legal, Procurement, Performance Reporting (BI), Property & Campus Services, TEC Relationship.

Professor Martin Carroll

DCE Academic and Interim Operational Lead Unitec and MIT

Responsibilities: The role has accountability for all matters academic, including delivery. Academic Governance, Academic Services, Ako / Academic Centre, Programme Development, Academic Quality, Research, Digital Learning, NZQA Relations, In-work Training, Centres of Vocational Excellence

Simon Nash
DCE Learner Experience and Success Unitec and MIT

Responsibilities: Priority Learner Groups, Learner Experience, Learning & Achievement, Learner Development, Learner Engagement, Secondary-Tertiary Pathways, Learner hardship support, Pastoral care

Simon Nash is Executive Director Ako/Learning & Teaching, and Chair of Te Komiti Mātauranga/Academic Committee. He has responsibilities for academic quality and compliance, and the quality of learning and teaching, as well as teacher capability. Within his portfolio of responsibilities are Te Korowai Kahurangi and Te Puna Ako teams. Simon also leads Unitec’s EER response.

Simon joined Unitec in 2009, coming from Massey University where he lectured in public and social policy and politics, and gained a PhD in Social Policy.

The Leadership Team is supported by:

Hare Paniora
Pae Arahi

Hare comes from an educational background, with 25 years as principal of several primary schools and many years as a tutor at Auckland Teachers College. He joined Carrington Polytechnic in 1991 as Head of Centre Puukenga, before being appointed to his current position as Unitec’s Pae Arahi in 2002.

Hare is responsible for providing the support and guidance for the institution in terms of tikanga Māori and bicultural issues.