Associate Professor Dr Robert Davis: rdavis@unitec.ac.nz

This is to inform you that Robert has decided to stand down from his role as Head of Department to focus on his research and teaching career. Robert has been with the DoMM and Unitec since June 2009 as Head of Department, Associate Professor and more recently also as Acting Programme Leader for the Master of Business. He has, and continues to play, an active role in teaching and research. The department has been significantly transformed over the last 2 ½ years across teaching, research and service.

Robert would like to thank the many students who were part of the departments change over this time and those colleagues at Unitec and externally he has collaborated with in our strategy, teaching, research and service. He would particularly like to thank his masters research students; Mary Lim, Inna Piven, Daniel Hunt and Neil Gautam.  Of his external partners he would like to thank Ahsan Ali, Zac Pullen, Omid Mohtadi, Jason Kemp, Jon Clausen, Terry Brown, Tony Falkenstein, Bodo Lang and Professor Kenneth Husted. Also, Robert wishes to thank his research and teaching collaborators: Roger Hawkins, the Rosebank Business Association, Skills Update Training Institute, Fisher and Paykel Healthcare, Air Zealand, Rakon, Super Liquor and Turners and Growers.  Finally, he wants to thank Judith King for her support and loyal service.