SEPTEMBER 2011
Vol 173
Fresh Blood at Gencom Two new faces have appeared recently at Gencom so we thought we had better intro-duce them to you. Ed: Now Ray, you’ve made a big decision in your life – to take it more easy, which is probably something a lot of us who know you … we’re really happy about. So how have you reduced your workload? Ray: Well actually this is not the prime motivation. It’s not about me taking it easy, and I wish to refute that assumption. It’s about me freeing up some bandwidth to do more and other things that need to be done, and so it doesn’t mean I’m backing off or taking it easy, I’m just redeploying myself onto other stuff that has been getting away from me, so that’s really what it’s about. So I just wish to refute that. Ed:
OK, so how are you freeing up your “bandwidth”?
Ray: Well I’d like to introduce David Barnard who’s our new Chief Operating Officer. David’s role is to assist me to do the other things that I need to be doing. I’ll be focusing on business development – the offshore business in particular – and also marketing and strategy, while David will be doing a lot of the background work to support the whole organisation – stuff that I used to do, probably not very well.
David and Ray.
Ed: Oh no, that’s not possible. Now David, people can’t tell from this interview, but you have an accent that we don’t hear around here much? David: I do, I’m from California, fresh off the boat so to speak, but very excited to be here. I’ve got about 20 years of background in the film and television industry and I’m looking forward to coming to New Zealand and putting that experience to work in a new challenge. Ed: What did you know about Gencom before you got off the boat? David: I actually knew quite a bit about them. Fortunately, I had the privilege of working with Ray and
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