Staff Profile

Hamish Allison - Managing Director

John Bell - General Manager
John has been with Jackson Allison for 25 years and has had a career in the medical supply industry for over 35 years.

Paul Hurtley - Group Financial Controller

Ross Baker - Group Accountant

Nicola Bartlett - Personal Assistant
Nicola has been with Jackson Allison for over five years and works for the management team and for anyone else in the company who needs her help!

Renee Biesiek - Office Manager
Renee has been with Jackson Allison for over two years.  Renee looks after all our creditors and debtor files.

Robyn Tauroa - Receptionist
Robyn is one of the newer members of the Jackson Allison team, having started in April 2007.

Anna Knuckey - Sales Manager
Anna has finally returned full time after having her 2 children.  Anna left nursing after 10 years, to join the Medical Industry of selling & has been with Jackson Allison since 2004.

Adrienne Grogan - Product Manager
Adrienne joined Jackson Allison 'one or two' years ago.  Initially she specialised in incontinence / ostomy / woundcare products after completing specialist courses.  She then moved to the other end - sterilisation - and recently passed the sterilisation course through the Open Polytechnic.

Errol Mallard - Product Manager
Errol has been with Jackson Allison for over 20 years and has had a career in the medical supply industry for over 35 years.  Errol's portfolio includes ENT, Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Theatre products.

Ingrid Hasler-Gapes - Product Manager
Ingrid has been in the medical business for nearly 20 years with a background as a registered nurse in Germany, the USA and New Zealand.  Ingrid looks after our Electrosurgical, Colorectal and Wound drainage portfolios.

Colleen Littlejohn - Product Manager
Colleen joined Jackson Allison in May 2006, bringing a wealth of experience from previous roles within the healthcare sector in both New Zealand and Australia.  She has worked as a registered nurse in orthopaedics and plastics, peritoneal and haemodialysis, renal transplantation and woundcare and has completed post graduate studies in renal medicine and woundcare.  Colleen has also held roles in large international companies involved with dialysis and woundcare.  She is responsible for urology and continence lines, woundcare and acute burncare products.

Bruce McFarlane - Product Manager
Bruce studied science and marketing and sold prescription pharmaceuticals for 5 years, mainly respiratory and cardiovascular drugs. The next 17 years were spent working with medical devices and joined Jackson Allison in 2008. He is now responsible for sexual health devices and related products.

Andy Williams - Product Manager
Andy has been with Jackson Allison for over a year.  He brings experience to the company by way of 20 years as an anaesthetic technician and nurse training.  Andy is familiar with all aspects of operating theatre technique, resuscitation and intensive care.  He looks forward to assisting you with any of your equipment needs.

Paul Biesiek - Regulatory Affairs/Quality Assurance
Paul has been with Jackson Allison for nearly ten years and along with regulatory duties for the company, he is responsible for quality issurance.  

Adam Wood - Customer Services
Adam has been with Jackson Allison for four years, two of which were spent in the warehouse and the latter two in customer services.  Adam is normally our first response for customer calls.

Philip Biesiek - Logistics Manager
Philip has been with Jackson Allison for about 12 years and spent the previous 25 years in the airline industry.  Phllip looks after purchasing and has control over our warehousing and distribution.

Tom Martin - Warehouse Manager
Tom has recently been appointed Warehouse Manager for Jackson Allison and Filecorp. Tom has been with Filecorp for 20 years

Stany Saldanha - Warehouse Assistant
Stany has been with us for 4 years and assists Tom in the daily running of our warehouse.

Prasad Kodippily - Stores
Prasad has been with us for 4 years and looks after picking and packing of orders.

Cliff Edwards - Stores
Cliff looks after inwards goods with Stany and is also involved with picking and packing of orders.

Andrew Allison - Stores
Andrew is our new staff member in stores.  He is learning the art of warehousing, with the long term plan of Andrew joining our customer services team.

Sarah Goldsbury - Product Manager
Joining Jackson Allison in September 2004, Sarah is a registered nurse with 11 years' experience.  Her nursing background includes 11 years as a theatre nurse and she also worked in the UK doing laser vein, pigmentation and hair removal.  Sarah manages theatre, anaesthetic and respiratory products.

Murray Hey - Product Manager
Murray's areas of special interest are sterile services, occupational health (PPE) and continence products.  Based in Lower Hutt, Murray represents the upper South Island, lower North Island and Hawke's Bay.

Lyndene Rea - Sales Support
Lyndene provides support to the product managers in our Christchurch office and is the contact for procurement teams in our southern region.

Rachel Spedding - Product Manager
With more than 15 years' experience in the healthcare industry, as both a provider and supplier, Rachel looks after the CSSD and theatre range of products for the South Island from Christchurch to Southland.

Bridget Brownrigg - Product Manager
Bridget comes from a nursing background and has been a medical representative for 10 years.  She looks after the anaesthetic, woundcare and continence range of products.  Bridget is based in Christchurch and looks after Christchurch down to Invercargill.