Meet The Team
Our team are passionate about bringing connectivity to rural New Zealand.
Ian Hooker
Chief Executive Officer
With a 30-year career in the telecommunication industry and having held senior leadership roles at One NZ, Ian provides the ability to lead in the complex and fast-paced world of digital technology and project delivery.
Ian’s passion, dedication, and commitment have been instrumental in RCG delivering the government funded Programmes to rural Aotearoa with over 480 cell sites live.
With Ian’s leadership and drive and following on from RCG’s overwhelming success of the RBI2 and Mobile Blackspot Funds programmes, Ian is leading RCG to continue to deliver and operate essential telecommunications infrastructure.
Rosemary Chung
Chief Financial Officer
Rosemary brings to RCG extensive international financial management experience having led commercial and financial teams across Infrastructure and Construction, Healthcare, and the Shared Services sectors.
Rosemary adds to RCG a deep understanding of financial strategy, risk mitigation planning, commercial negotiations, and excellence in financial management.
As fellow of Chartered Accountants of New Zealand and Australia and having held active roles in education and the governance for the profession, Rosemary’s passion for all aspects of the financial world is clear.
As RCG’s Chief Financial Officer, Rosemary’s breadth of governance experience and business acumen aims to drive financial best practice, improved efficiencies and reduced costs across the business to successfully deliver RCG’s financial targets.
Rosemary Chung
Chief Financial Officer
Rosemary brings to RCG extensive international financial management experience having led commercial and financial teams across Infrastructure and Construction, Healthcare, and the Shared Services sectors.
Rosemary adds to RCG a deep understanding of financial strategy, risk mitigation planning, commercial negotiations, and excellence in financial management.
As fellow of Chartered Accountants of New Zealand and Australia and having held active roles in education and the governance for the profession, Rosemary’s passion for all aspects of the financial world is clear.
As RCG’s Chief Financial Officer, Rosemary’s breadth of governance experience and business acumen aims to drive financial best practice, improved efficiencies and reduced costs across the business to successfully deliver RCG’s financial targets.
Allison Bailie
Head of Delivery
Allison’s extensive international career in the telecommunication industry spans over 25 years and she brings to RCG a depth of knowledge and experience in Mobile Network Deployment.
Allison’s experience includes many years managing large teams and projects from both the operator and vendor side of Radio Access Networks (RAN) including account management, site acquisition, design, build, and RAN operations. Allison has also taken her skills into other industries, including Deloitte and Air New Zealand to further broaden her experience in the technology sector.
As RCG’s Head of Delivery, Allison is responsible for driving efficiencies into the build of our vast New Zealand network, ensuring our infrastructure is fit for purpose and deployed cost effectively and on time. Working closely with RCG’s service partners, Allison ensures the ambitious build programme nationwide delivers RCG’s New Zealand quality wireless broadband and mobile service
Andrea Vins
Head of Network Operations
Andrea leads Rural Connectivity Group’s operations team connecting the various in-house technical teams, RCG’s Network Operations Centre and the MNO operations teams, to ensure top class performance of the live RCG network.
After holding a range of engineering, critical service management, and project management roles, both here and overseas, Andrea spent several years in the USA and Europe helping large telecommunications organisations build their wireless technologies up for the future – including developing one of the world’s first 4G networks. Closer to home, she led Spark’s world-class customer experience, overseeing a daily cross-functional forum dedicated to faultless mobile service.
Andrea Vins
Head of Network Operations
Andrea leads Rural Connectivity Group’s operations team connecting the various in-house technical teams, RCG’s Network Operations Centre and the MNO operations teams, to ensure top class performance of the live RCG network.
After holding a range of engineering, critical service management, and project management roles, both here and overseas, Andrea spent several years in the USA and Europe helping large telecommunications organisations build their wireless technologies up for the future – including developing one of the world’s first 4G networks. Closer to home, she led Spark’s world-class customer experience, overseeing a daily cross-functional forum dedicated to faultless mobile service.