David Rands (Anne)
District Governor 2011-12
Rotary Club of Beecroft
BH: 02 9752 1225
AH: 02 9279 2289
Fax: 02 9645 4889
Mobile: 0408 255 015
Email:
dbrands@bigpond.com
David joined Rotary as Charter Secretary of the Western Hutt Club in New Zealand in 1974, and was President in 1976-77. His membership has continued for 35 years in four clubs, including a year in Baulkham Hills, 4 years in Jurong Town (Singapore), and Beecroft, where he was President in 1989-90.
During his time in Rotary, David has held all club board positions and Club Service roles and in NZ was involved in Youth Exchange and RYLA at District level. More recently in District 9680, David has been a GSE inbound coordinator for two teams, is the Assistant Governor for the City North Zone in 2008-09, and is the District Information Director for 2009-10. He has also been elected to serve on the District Administration Committee from 1 July 2009.
David is a member of the Paul Harris Society and has a sapphire PHF pin.
David studied Chemistry at the University of Auckland, and lectured for 4 years while completing his PhD. After working at Philips Electrical and ICI in production roles, David moved in 1976 to Taubmans Paints New Zealand as Production Manager, finishing with the company in 1990 as main board director of Taubmans Industries based in Sydney. The last 19 years has been with DIC (originally Coates Brothers), the printing ink manufacturer, commencing as Managing Director in Australia, retiring from full time work and becoming non executive Chairman of the Australasian companies at the end of 2008. David spent four years (1994 to 1997) in Singapore as Regional Managing Director for Coates looking after companies from Pakistan to Korea to New Zealand.
David is a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry, and a fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and was President of the Australian Paint Manufacturers Association (APMF) from 2001 to 2004, and president of the Graphic Arts Merchants Association of Australia (GAMAA) for two years (2003-04).
In younger days, David’s interests included swimming, sailing, and music, and he has, through a long involvement with the Uniting Church been involved in organ music and choir singing. David built his first two houses and extended others. More recently, interests have extended to golf and tennis, theatre, opera and travel.
David is married to Anne, and they have four children and six grandchildren with another due in November.