Turanganui PHO is governed by a Board of three Turanga Health representatives, three Pinnacle representatives and two Community representatives.

David Scott (Chair) 
David was a community appointment in 2004 and elected to Chair in 2005. Born in Palmerston North he has been a teacher then principal. He came to Tairawhiti in 1972 and worked in adult learning before retiring from Tairawhiti Polytechnic as Director of International Marketing in 2001. David spent 23 years in local body politics, retiring from a 12-year term as deputy mayor in 2002. He and his wife run a small farm and have nine grandchildren. David works part-time as Clinical Board Coordinator for Tairawhiti District Health, is a Justice of the Peace, marriage celebrant, trustee of Te Kuri A Tuatai Marae, and local coordinator for the East Coast Rural Support Trust. He has a two year term on the New Zealand Primary Health Care Advisory Council. David believes Turanganui PHO provides a unique opportunity for the community to participate in planning and managing their present and future health needs.

Diane Cooper
Diane Cooper joined the Turanganui PHO Board in April 2009 bringing with her a wealth of experience in financial planning, business advisory, strategic planning and implementation, and team management. Diane has been a self-employed business advisor for the past ten years with a particular interest in working with not for profit organisations, many of them in the health sector. She lived in the United Kingdom during the nineties where she owned a business and marketing consultancy organisation initiating business ventures, business fairs, and carrying out research and work with a number of organisations. Diane has also worked as a lecturer at Tairawhiti Polytechnic and used to own a Hamilton motel. She believes strongly in the ability of Primary Health Organisations to give people choices in primary care. When she is not working Diane is a keen walker and swimmer, and enjoys opera.

Reweti Ropiha
Reweti Ropiha joined the TPHO Board in 2002 as a representative for Turanga Health. Born and bred in Turanga, Reweti has been involved with a number of key whanau, hapu and iwi development initiatives since 1996 assisting with the Vanessa Lowndes Turanga Trust, Turanga Health, Te Runanga o Turanganui a Kiwa, marae, kohanga reo and associated sports groups. Reweti acknowledges the opportunities that TPHO presents as far as reorienting primary health care for those within the Turanganui a Kiwa rohe and aims to ensure that the focus of TPHO will be on outcomes, and making a difference. 

Albie Stewart 
Albert Stewart was appointed to the Board by Turanga Health in 2005. Turanga Health is a 50% stakeholder of TPHO representing Rongowhakaata, Ngai Tamanuhiri and Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki iwi. Albert hails from Rongowhakaata iwi on his father’s side and Tuhoe on his mother’s and considers himself a full blooded indigenous Maori of Aotearoa. Albert worked for Department of Social Welfare in the mid-80’s to early 90’s as a Benefits and Pensions Administrator. Later he was a Marae Committee Chairperson in Manutuke. He has been a Rongowhakaata Trustee, and was a Turanga Health founding director. For seven years Albert worked at Te Puni Kokiri as a Kaiwhakarite, then was Te Runanga o Te Whanau a Apanui’s Operations Manager and later Health and Social Services Manager. Albie managed a Primary Health Organisation in Opotiki before returning home as Turanga Health’s Personal Health Manager. 

Pene Brown 
Pene Brown has an extensive background in governance, working with a range of Maori organisations in the fields of health, education, farming and social needs. He is the Chair of Te Hauora o Turanganui a Kiwa (Turanga Health). In addition he is a Trustee and or chair of various whanau, hapu and iwi land blocks. He is also the Chairman of the Te Runanga o Turanganui a Kiwa and Chairman of Te Aitanga a Mahaki Trust. Pene is Deputy Chairman of the Tairawhiti District Health Board and Chairman of the Community and Public Health Advisory Committee. Pene and his family have farmed in Puha for four generations and his whanau marae is Tapuihikitia.

Dr Ken McFarlane
Ken McFarlane joined the TPHO board in 2004, as a representative of Pinnacle. Ken has been a GP in Gisborne since 1984, following two years as a house officer at Gisborne Hospital and various positions in UK hospitals. Since 2001 he has been working in partnership with his wife Alison at Mangapapa Medical Centre. His specific medical interests include the use of information technology in General Practice. He has three children aged 20, 18, and 16. Other interests include tramping, travel, sailing, marathon walking, and Christian education.

Dr Tom James
Tom hails from Bristol in the United Kingdom originally, but has been a generalist GP at Kaiti Medical Centre since arriving in New Zealand in 1994. Tom has a special interest in developing the future of general practice, both to attract graduates, and to ensure GPs remain an integral part of the primary healthcare community. Outside of his hours at Kaiti Medical Centre, Tom works as an on-call Police Doctor and also performs Occupational Medicine at Bernard Matthews Meatworks. When away from work, Tom can be found camping with his family, racing up and down the sand on his “blo-kart” land yacht, or surfing badly.

John Macaskill-Smith
John joined the Board in 2002 as a representative for the GP network Pinnacle.  John has a varied background in the health sector including time spent working for the Health Funding Authority (HFA) and Ministry of Health. Joining the Pinnacle team in 2001 he played a key role in the establishment of the five Pinnacle linked midland PHOs.  John stepped down for a period of time from the Turanganui PHO Board after he took on the new role of CEO for Pinnacle.  During that period John has remained heavily involved in a number of national governance roles around national contracting and the PHO Performance Programme.John rejoined the board in 2009 and is thrilled to be involved directly again.  In the few spare minutes that John has he loves spending it exploring New Zealand with his children and GP wife Kerry.