Albany Sports Park
321 Oteha Valley Road,
PO Box 300 141
Albany, Auckland 0752
(09) 414 5530
ceo@tennisnorthern.co.nz Ext: 7
info@tennisnorthern.co.nz Ext: 3
admin@tennisnorthern.co.nz Ext: 4
Tash Bartlett – Board Chair
Glenn Cox – Board Deputy Chair
Angelique Blom
Charlie Bartlett
Jacqueline Ironside
Tina Barclay
Tom Jackson
Wendy McNeely
James Vercoe – Board Intern
Tash Bartlett comes from a banking and finance background having completed a BA/BCom at Auckland University. She has held senior roles at Carter Holt Harvey and within the banking industry, both in NZ and Australia. After having her children, she trained as a Personal Trainer and ran two businesses, personal training and a children’s fitness business. In more recent times she has held finance, strategy and events management roles. She is currently working in wealth management.
Combined with her passion for tennis, this varied background provides her with a wide knowledge of business principles, processes and experiences that adds value in her Board role.
Glenn Cox is currently the Chief Executive of Badminton North Harbour. He has experience in racket sports and has played tennis at a number of Tennis Northern clubs including Becroft Park as a junior and Castor Bay, Mairangi Bay and Browns Bay as a senior player.
Glenn has previous governance experience as he has been on a number of Boards and committees of various sports organisations.
He also has a vast knowledge of how an RSO operates in our region and has a great passion for tennis and rackets sports in general.
Angelique is passionate about growing tennis, breaking down barriers to entry and developing the player experience for people at any stage of the game.
A late starter to tennis, Angelique has thrown herself into all aspects of the sport. For several years she has held the position of co-President, Secretary, and key fundraiser at the Beach Haven Tennis Club. She enjoys participation and development in this sport as a player, interclub team captain, and club leader and is also a qualified Court Supervisor and an ASB Classic volunteer.
After completing a BA at Auckland University, Angelique travelled from NZ and spent 25 years working for a UK based multinational. Gaining professional accountancy qualifications (CIMA), she undertook a broad range of Finance, Performance, Governance, Management, and leadership roles including 4 expat positions over 7 years in very culturally diverse global locations. Along with this strong corporate background, Angelique brings a positive, logical, problem-solving approach, has good process, systems, and communications skills, and relates well to people at all levels.
Charlie comes from a sports, construction, and finance background. He started playing tennis at a young age and quickly fell in love with the game. Growing up in a community rich in tennis opportunities, Charlie played at a high regional level in England. After high school, he received a tennis scholarship in Nashville, Tennessee, where he competed in the NAIA Division while earning a BA (HONS) in Business Studies with Marketing. Following graduation, he served as the men’s and women’s assistant tennis coach at Cumberland University for two successful years, leading both teams to the National Championships. In 2007, he earned his Masters from Cumberland University.
Currently, Charlie is focused on his career in construction but still enjoys coaching tennis part-time, continuing to share his passion for the game.
Jacqueline has a wealth of experience from which to draw, having held senior business advisory roles in accountancy firms such as KPMG, Ernst and Young, as well as accountancy roles within other industries. The experience of working with many people and industries over time, as well as the added insight of completing MBA studies, gives Jacqueline a huge amount of wisdom around what works and what doesn’t within business.
Jacqueline is a past President and long time member of the Whangaparaoa Tennis Club. Volunteering is also a big part of Jacqueline’s life. As well as the One Warkworth Business Association, she is on the board of Tennis Northern, Best Prevention Services Rodney and a founding Trustee of the Child Rescue Charitable Trust NZ.
Tina Barclay is an enrolled Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand. She has passionately worked for over 30 years in various voluntary and professional roles across different sectors. In her early career she worked for Auckland Council as a youth worker before moving on to tutor life skills and career guidance to school leavers.
Following this Tina embarked on a Bachelor of Laws Degree [LLB] from University of Auckland. She is an active member of the Maori Law Society. She has held varied executive and governance roles on different organisations and boards including school, local, regional and national levels. As part of her later career path, Tina has been involved in community and corporate focus projects. She has been an employer, business consultant and self-employed. She has completed a Master of Laws Degree [LLM] from University of Auckland which included learnings on iwi corporate governance and taxation, which she has used to assist with her elected role on the Ngapuhi Settlement Board “Tuhoronuku iwi mandated authority”. She is experienced in strategic planning, financial management and human resources.
Tina is of Ngapuhi and Tainui descent. Her hapu are Ngati Ueoneone, Ngati Tautahi and Ngati Wairere. She is actively involved in serving her Okorihi marae.
Tina was a member of the Belmont Park Tennis Club many years ago and still loves playing a game of tennis with her whanau.
Tom brings to the Tennis Northern Region (TNR) Board many years of experience in the areas of community involvement, governance and business. He is no longer in paid employment, he doesn’t like the word ‘retirement’, so he in the fortunate position of being able to commit the time that organisations he works with require (and deserve). In his paid working career he was the Managing Director of Guardian Assurance.
Tom has been on community, schools and sports committees or boards for the last 65 years. He has been the treasurer, secretary, president or committee member of many organisations. He has been on the Audit and Risk committee for TNR for the last 20 years and on the Interclub committee for 17 years over two periods. Tom is currently Chairman of the Shore to Shore Fun Run/Walk committee and a parent trustee on the Northcote Primary school board.
Over the years Tom has volunteered a great deal of time to organisations. Sports and schools are an integral part of any community and he is excited by the opportunity to continue his community involvement as a member of the TNR board. Tom’s experience enables him to contribute to TNR and the sport of tennis. He works with his fellow board members to make a positive contribution to the future development of TNR and to enhance TNR’s relationships with members of the community.
Tom has belonged to Becroft Park Tennis Club since 1980 and continues to be an active interclub participant.
Wendy comes from a sporting background…. Just not tennis!
She has worked in the health sector for most of her working career and has just recently entered the sport sector. In the corporate world her strengths lie in finding solutions for challenges; these days those often faced by people wanting to get physically active. Her role as a Monitoring and Evaluations advisor enables her to see the big picture but also the details required to make a plan that will collect appropriate data along the way to ensure milestones are met to help achieve the strategy in place.
Wendy represented Great Britain as a sprint hurdler in a career that spanned 20 years and so has experience as a junior and senior competitor. With that comes a wealth of knowledge and experience regarding the need for development pathways and the commitments required of both athletes and coaches. Wendy was one of the top female football referees in New Zealand and also sat on the NRF Referee Committee.
After retiring as an international competitor and migrating to New Zealand she experienced the importance and pleasure of social sport.
James comes from a high performance sport and pathways background, having completed a Masters in Sport & Exercise Science at Auckland University of Technology. He has held roles as a high performance and development coach in cycling settings, as well as numerous strength & conditioning roles. Currently James holds the role of Education & Development Manager with the PGA of New Zealand and is responsible for the education and ongoing development of PGA professionals within New Zealand.
James has an obsession with all sports, including having played tennis in high school before achieving numerous national titles and representing New Zealand in the sport of track cycling.