Trustees
The SKYCITY Queenstown Casino Community Trust Trustees are prominent local community members with backgrounds in community involvement and local business.
Clark Pirie - Chairperson
Clark Pirie is a barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand, appointed in 1994, and a partner with Macalister Todd Phillips (Queenstown) since 2005. Mr Pirie has a general practise focusing on commercial and property law. Mr Pirie has previously worked for Aspinall Joel Radford Bowler in Dunedin and Reuters Financial Group in London.
He is a board member of the Queenstown Chamber of Commerce.
Jim Ryan - Trustee
Jim Ryan is a founder of the popular chicken brand, Tau Tau, developing and expanding the business until its recent sale. He has served as a Director of the New Zealand Poultry Industry Association, the Southland Business Development Board, and Rugby Southland, in addition to being an inaugural trustee of a Southland community trust.
He was involved in southern community projects such as Telethon and was awarded a Paul Harris Fellowship by the Rotary Club of Invercargill. He was also Southland Business Personality of the Year in 1988.
As a long-time local ratepayer, and member of the Arrowtown Village Association, Jim takes a passionate interest in the preservation of the unique historic nature of Arrowtown and is a QLDC appointed member of the Arrowtown Planning Advisory Committee. Now also Chairman of the local group ArrowNet, he is enjoying seeing the more senior members of the community becoming more computer literate.
Vicki Buckham - Trustee
Vicki Buckham is an active member of the community and is involved with many diverse community groups including St Joseph’s Church, Historic Places Trust Queenstown-Lakes District Branch, Arrowtown Women’s Golf Club, Frankton Playcentre and the Lakes District Safer Community Trusts.
For the past 11-years, Vicki has been a Justice of Peace and was the Secretary Treasurer for the Justice of the Peace Central Otago Assn from 2004 until 2006.
Being a Trustee is exciting for Vicki as it provides an additional way of continuing to make a difference in the Queenstown-Lakes District community by supporting local groups in their endeavours.
Kim Wilkinson - Trustee
Kim Wilkinson is a well known pharmacist in Queenstown having been owner/manager of Wilkinsons Pharmacy since 1984. Mr Wilkinson has been involved over the past 25 years with various fundraising ventures, community groups and sporting clubs in the Queenstown area.
Kim is a board member of Queenstown Chamber of Commerce, a trustee of Queenstown Life Trust (X-It Youth Centre) an elder of Wakatipu Community Church and is a past chairperson of the Queenstown Primary School of Trustees.