Our Trustees are ultimately responsible for how Mahi Tahi is governed, which includes responsibilities surrounding human resources issues, developing strategy and policy, budgeting and planning, ensuring that Mahi Tahi complies with all of it's legal obligations and monitoring and supervising the management of Mahi Tahi. 

Stewart Edward Chairman

Stewart has pursued education in the Rotorua, Victoria and the Otago areas until 1971, where he worked successfully as a dentist in Rotorua until retirement in 2018. As a member of the Rotorua community, Stewart has upheld many roles at a governance level in areas including health, community development, education, marae administration, youth services, and rehabilitation services for prisoners, whanau and iwi. From 2001 to 2010 Stewart chaired the Lakes District Health Board and is currently Chair of QE Health Community Trust, Chair of Rotorua Charitable Energy Trust, Deputy Chair of Ngā Pumanawa e Waru Trust, and a Trustee of Manaaki Ora Trust.

Tihema Galvin




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Peter Grant

​On leaving school Peter joined the Army and served for 26 years as an Infantry Officer, serving on active duty in South Vietnam and the Middle East. He has held a number of senior training / teaching appointments including being Chief Instructor of the School of Infantry and he was the NZ Instructor at the Command and Staff College in Australia. He retired from the Army as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1992 on the death of his first wife.  Following a 2 year stint with Civil Defence Emergency Management in Napier, Peter was appointed to the role of Tumuaki of Mangaroa/Hawkes Bay Regional Prison in 1994. After a meeting with Sir Norman Perry and Herewini Jones, Peter conducted the first Mahi Tahi Wananga at HBRP in 1995, then with the guidance of Sir Pita Sharples opened the first Maori Focus Unit in HBRP in 1996. Since retiring from Corrections in 2008 Peter has served as a Trustee of Mahi Tahi Trust from 2008 to 2017, when whanau commitments led to him taking a break. He became a Trustee again in April 2021 until the present time. Peter has a real passion for keeping our whanau out of prison.

Armon Tamatea

Jubilee Turi Hollis