The members of the Chartered Professional Engineers Council are:

Mr Graham Shaw, Chairman, appointed 8 October 2008 until 13 October 2016. 
Mr Shaw is a Wellington based Director in Corporate Concerns, providing commercial 
advisory services and specialising in strategic development and the mentoring and 
coaching of senior executives.  He brings accountancy skills and a history of working 
in the engineering sector.  Mr Shaw initially worked in finance roles and later had five 
years experience as Chief Executive of Works Infrastructure.  He also held the role 
of Chief Executive at Kensington Swan for two years while overseeing a period of 
restructuring.  Mr Shaw also holds directorships in the private sector as well as sitting 
on a number of advisory boards and is Deputy Chair of the Aroha Care Centre for the 
Elderly Trust and Taita Home Trust Boards.

Mr Andrew Read - FIPENZ, Deputy Chairman, appointed 18 December 2009 until 
17 December 2014
Mr Read is a Director of Pedersen Read Ltd, a consulting electrical engineering firm 
based in Christchurch. Andrew has 25 years xperience working on commercial 
construction projects both within New Zealand and in the UK. He is a past board 
member and past president of the Association of Consulting Engineers New Zealand 
(ACENZ) and has served on the ACENZ “Awards of Excellence” judging panel.  
Andrew has been a practice area assessor for both CPEng and IPENZ applicants 
for a number of years. Andrew is also a member of the Business Practice Committee 
of FIDIC, the International Federation of Consulting Engineers.

Mr Roland Frost - FIPENZ, member - IPENZ nominee, appointed 8 October 2008 
until 13 October 2013.
Mr Frost graduated with a civil engineering degree from Canterbury University in 1972.  
His first employment was the Ministry of Works in Waikato. The range and scale of 
projects undertaken by the Ministry through the 1970s and 1980s enabled Mr Frost to 
gain a variety of experience in the civil, structural and geotechnical fields. In 1997 Mr  
Frost moved on to Beca, opening their Hamilton office before relocating to Auckland 
where he held a senior position as Beca's general manager civil engineering. He 
continued to lead major infrastructure projects for Beca until 2005 when he joined 
Transit New Zealand.  In this role Mr Frost has responsibility for the operations of the 
total state highway network including engineering standards, managing network 
demands, and maintenance. He recently rejoined Beca as a senior shareholder in 
Tauranga. Mr Frost is also a past president of IPENZ.

Mr Andrew Hazelton, Lawyer, member, appointed 18 May 2003 until 29 October 2013.
Mr Hazelton is a partner in the specialist construction law practice of Hazelton LAW. He 
has a Masters Degree in Construction Law from the Centre for Construction Law and  
Management, Kings College, London and as part of that degree he studied technical 
issues relating to construction and engineering. Mr Hazelton's professional  experience 
ranges from litigation, arbitration and adjudication relating to substantial construction and 
engineering issues to the drafting of project documentation. He has also represented 
parties at quasi-judicial disciplinary bodies, as well as prosecuting and defending 
clients under environmental legislation

Ms Jane Nees, Consumer Representative, member, appointed 10 October 
2011 until 13 October 2014. 

Dr Arthur O'Leary - FIPENZ, member, appointed 30 October 2010 until 29 October 2013

Dr O’Leary is a structural engineer recently retired from the practice of Sinclair Knight Merz 
Ltd. (SKM). Arthur was the practice leader in earthquake engineering. He continues to 
undertake consulting assignments for SKM in areas where he has specialist knowledge.

Arthur graduated from the University of Canterbury with a first class honours degree in 
Civil Engineering in 1966 and completed his PhD in 1970. He has spent all his professional 
life as a consulting engineer, having worked mostly in New Zealand but with two years in 
the UK and shorter periods in Australia, Asia and Portugal. His experience includes medium 
and high rise commercial and institutional structures, industrial structures, and civil 
structures for water and waste water projects in both Australia and New Zealand.

Arthur has been the recipient of the American Concrete Institute (ACI) Maurice P Van Buren 
Award for Structural Engineering for a paper published by the ACI. He has published several 
papers on concrete and earthquake resistant design, and has served on international study 
groups related to state of the art concrete design technology. Arthur has served on the 
executive of the NZ National Society for Earthquake Engineering and has been involved on 
working committees for both IPENZ and the ACENZ. He has been a member of NZ Standards 
committees including the current Earthquake Loading standard. 

Ms Sharyn Westlake - FIPENZ, member, appointed 25 August 2006 until 
5 October 2012.
Ms Westlake is a civil engineer, with both regional government and engineering 
consultancy experience. She is currently Team Leader Strategy and Technical Support 
in the Flood Protection Department of the Greater Wellington Regional Council. 
Ms Westlake was a member of the Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand 
(IPENZ) governing Board from 2000 to 2006 and in 2003 served on the Competence 
Assessment Board (CAB) as the IPENZ Board representative. The CAB is the 
decision making body on registration decisions. Prior to 2000 she served for several 
years on the Committee of the New Zealand Coastal Society.    

Mr Jon Williams - FIPENZ, member, appointed 1 July 2010 until 30 June 2015.
Mr Williams is Auckland based and works for Beca Group of Consulting Engineers ...