Mr Ken Whelan

Chairman of the Board

Ken is a senior health executive with over 30 years as a senior manager. For more than 20 of those years, he has been a CEO for health providers and purchasers in New Zealand and Australia. These range from secondary and tertiary providers with large rural and indigenous populations to major quaternary teaching facilities.

In 2024, Ken was appointed as a Deputy Commissioner – Health NZ – Te Whatu Ora. Ken’s other roles include Crown Monitor for the Counties Manukau and Waikato DHBs; Deputy Secretary, System Purchasing and Performance for the NSW Department of Health; Chief Executive, Metro North Health and Hospital Service; and co-facilitator of the GE Executive Health Leadership Program (Australia).

His clients value Ken’s strengths in delivering strong collaborative leadership and sustainable organisational change. An experienced leader, he has implemented clinical and corporate governance models across systems to improve client flow.  Ken has a nursing background.

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