Peat MM changes

Press, 24 April 1986, Page 26

Peat MM changes

The national office of Peat Marwick Mitchell and Company, one of New Zealand’s largest chartered accountancy practices, has been restructured. Mr Peter Gray has become chairman of the national practice. In the new position of full-time chairman he will be responsible for the establishment and operation of a national executive office in Auckland. The national executive, formerly composed of eight members of all Peat Marwick’s major New Zealand offices, is now a fourperson committee which includes the chairman. Mr D. V. Christiansen, of Auckland, Dr S. M. Lojkine, of Christchurch, and Mr M. S. Morris, of Wellington, have been elected as the new executive. As previously reported, the former chairman, Mr Athol Mann, will leave New Zealand at the end of the month to take up his appointment as executive vice-chairman of Peat Marwick International in New York. Mr Gray, a Dunedin chartered accountant and sportsman, held the position of lecturer and examiner in auditing at the the University of Otago from 1981 to 1985. Mr Gray is a former national president of the Society of Accountants. Ms Anne Davy has been appointed director of professional practice in the national office. She was previously manager of professional practice' of the Peat Marwick Mitchell Auckland branch office. Ms Davy has been a tutor in accounting at the University of Auckland and a lecturer in cost and management accounting at San Francisco State University. She has been manager of the firm’s professional practice department since 1980. Mrs Wendy Knudsen has been appointed director of training in the national office. She joined Peat Marwick Mitchell in Britain in 1980. Educated at the University of