About Us

Our Background
Pacific Cooperation Broadcasting Limited (PCBL) was established in April 2015. It is a New Zealand government initiative, that is funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade with the overall aim to build stronger relationships in the Pacific region by supporting the media sector. Pacific Cooperation Broadcasting Limited (PCBL) aims to support Pacific free-to-air broadcasters through delivering more New Zealand originated content that can be rebroadcast to their local audiences and encouraging the production of local content via the provision of field equipment and training. Pacific Cooperation Broadcasting Limited (PCBL) will send a variety of programme content that includes sports, news, current affairs, documentaries, and entertainment via satellite IS19.
Natasha Meleisea
Chief Executive
Natasha embeds an inclusive approach to all aspects of how she operates in business. Of Samoan heritage she weaves cultural diversity into her management style and embraces difference as a strength. Natasha brings more than 25 years of business management and marketing experience to the organisation with 20 years specifically in broadcast media and advertising; including senior executive roles in both commercial and not-for-profit media organisations with a focus on building indigenous media performance, capacity, and capability. She was integral in the establishment of PCBL - Pasifika TV in 2015 and later became its first CEO with the aspiration to strengthen the broadcasting collective of indigenous broadcasters across the Pacific.
Brent Impey
Chair of the Board
Brent is a professional director and also runs his own consultancy business which works alongside a diverse range of New Zealand corporate clients. Prior to this Brent was Chief Executive Officer at Mediaworks for over 11 years. He is an experienced public and private company director having served previously as either Chair/Director for the New Zealand Rugby Union for 10 years until 2022, SANZAAR, Finzsoft Solutions Limited, Fred Hollows Foundation, Director of Strategy, Ports of Auckland. He is currently a director for Yellow Pages Group, Devon Funds Management Ltd, JMI Wealth Limited, and Chair of Te Korowai o Waiheke (Predator Free 2050 for Waiheke). He previously practised law specialising in media. Brent was part of the consulting team that established PCBL and is excited to be back serving as a director.
Caren Rangi
Deputy Chair
Caren is a proud Cook Islands Māori who has a governance career that spans nineteen years on Boards in the broadcasting, health, and arts sectors. She is a qualified Chartered Accountant and is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand. Caren’s appointments include Chair of the Arts Council of New Zealand (Creative New Zealand) and Pacific Homecare Services; board member of Radio New Zealand, the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, and Pacific Inc Ltd (trading as Le Va). She is also a Director of the Cook Islands Investment Corporation in Rarotonga. Her service to governance and leadership was recognised in 2016 with the awarding of New Zealander of Year Local Hero Award and again in 2018 with the Linden Estate Hawke’s Bay Business Leader of the Year. Caren was further honoured with an Office of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2018 for services to governance and the Pacific community and in 2021 was made the inaugural Pacific Governance Leader at the Women in Governance awards. She is enthusiastic about supporting her Cook Islands and Pacific communities in New Zealand and the region to achieve their aspirations.
Annemarie Browne
Board Member
Prior to her current role as Chief Marketing Officer of Lotto New Zealand, Annemarie was CEO of Aspire2 Business; a part of the of the Aspire2 Group one of hew New Zealand’s largest private education groups. She brings over 25 years of broadcasting industry experience across multiple geographies with roles including senior sales, marketing, and content positions at ITV, Channel Seven, TV3 and TVNZ. Annemarie also worked extensively in the digital sector as Country Manager for SEEK New Zealand and Global Marketing Director for Orion Health. Annemarie holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Auckland and has held industry positions on the Advertising Standards Board, the Marketing and Communications Committee for Digital Switchover, and the Television Commercial Approvals Board.
Wendy Thompson
Board Member
With over twenty years experience in the advertising and marketing world, Wendy founded specialist social media agency Socialites in 2010 and grew it to be a full service production, media and digital agency working in 69 countries across the globe for clients such as Microsoft and Bupa. Rebranded in early 2023 to Thompson Spencer, her business acumen won her a finalist place in the New Zealand EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2021. Wendy brings an extensive knowledge of digital and social media to PCBL and has her finger firmly on the pulse of the future of new media broadcasting. Wendy has a Bachelor of International Business and Marketing and has held governance roles since 2015, including the Well Foundation and the iconic Womens’ Rugby World Cup in Aotearoa 2022.
Greg Drummond
Board Member
Greg is a 5th generation New Zealander of mixed Māori (Ngāti Porou) and Scottish heritage. His wife Lallit is a New Zealander of Fiji Indian heritage. In addition to serving on the board of PCBL, Greg consults through his own company Telemedia Consulting. Prior to this Greg completed a 26-year extended tour of duty at Sky Television in New Zealand as Director of Broadcasting and Media. In the latter part of his tenure he was a key sponsor for sporting events including the Rugby World Cup and Olympic and Commonwealth Games for New Zealand. Greg is an industry veteran with a proven results-focused record in television production operations, project delivery and organisational management. He has strong local and international relationships with television industry professionals, media technology suppliers, production companies, programme providers, and specialist media delivery companies.
Junior Hunter
Chief Operations Officer
Junior Hunter joined the team in July 2022 as the Chief Operations Officer. Junior is of Samoan Heritage and comes from a background in both the FMCG and Records Management industries spanning 30 years of experience in health & safety, people & contract management, operations and logistics. He has worked with companies such as Capital Dairy Products, Tui Foods, Mainland Products Ltd, Fonterra, Goodman Fielder, Recall and Iron Mountain.
Tui McKendrick
Head of Programming and Content
Tui brings a wealth of television experience to the team with more than 35 years working in the industry. Previously, the Head of Television for Oceania Football Confederation, and Executive Producer for Sky TV New Zealand, she draws upon her extensive experience in production and management of live broadcast media, as well as working in the Pacific. Tui has been involved with PCBL since 2016, and as the Head of Programming and Content, Tui sources and schedules our content for PasifikaTV ensuring that we have continuous service across the Pacific. She has been crucial in working alongside several of our broadcasting partners to rebroadcast their daily news programmes across the Pacific using our LiveU network.
Peter Fraser
Chief Financial Officer
Peter is a Chartered Accountant who is an owner/director of a consultancy business that specialises in financial recovery, cost control and management accounting to support organisational growth, and/or expansion into new markets. He joined PCBL in 2018 and brings extensive experience in business operations and traditional areas of financial management. Peter adds a strong financial acumen to the team, helping support all areas of PCBL to ensure programme delivery. He has experience in both private and public sectors as well as in media and technology companies. Peter has a long history of involvement in Pasifika organisations, having lived and worked in Samoa for three years and later working for the National Pacific Radio Trust
Sabrina Tian
Head of Marketing and Partner Programmes
Sabrina is an experienced marketer who excels in relationship management. She has previously worked at SkyCity and the Shangri-la hotel in Beijing before moving to Reef Group as Customer Relationship manager where she gained experience in the Pacific. Sabrina then moved to Pacific Cooperation Foundation working in various roles including programme management and then as Executive Manger. She joined Pacific Cooperation Broadcasting Limited (PCBL) in 2019 as the Marketing Programme Manager and is now our Head of Marketing and Partner Programmes. Sabrina uses her proven organisational and communication skills to produce results for PasifikaTV – most notably as the driving force behind our broadcaster training and Pasifika On Air programmes. Sabrina holds an MBA from the Auckland University of Technology with a focus in Marketing.
Scott Davies
Presentation Scheduler
Scott joined the team in 2019 as the Presentation Scheduler, building transmission schedules for the daily playout of content on PasifikaTV. He also assists with live events produced by PasifikaTV in a wide range of roles – such as staffing the playout room at TVNZ for our Polyfest 2022 broadcast. Scott has a certificate in Art and Design (Whitecliffe College of Art and Design), a certificate in Film and Television Production (South Seas Film and Television School) majoring in Postproduction and has worked at SKY Television Network for 20 years in various roles – Presentation Director/Entertainment Scheduler/Sport Scheduler/Scheduling Supervisor and On Air Controller. He has a passion for people, words, music, art, sport and of course, television.
Nathan Fraser
Executive Business Partner
Nathan is an up-and-coming talent who brings sales, marketing, and management experience from the retail sector. He joined PCBL in 2020 to aid with financial administration and advanced to a newly created role in 2021 as the Finance and Digital Platforms Administrator. In addition to his work in finance, Nathan has led the development of PasifikaTV’s digital presence starting with the redevelopment of the website. From there he started writing and publishing the achievements of PCBL including the deployment of the PacHub LiveU systems to our broadcasting partners and the delivery of our Pasifika On Air programming. He holds a BCom from the University of Auckland in Marketing and International Business and is of Niuean heritage.
Karl Schodt
Broadcast Operations Manager
Karl Schodt has over 25 years of production experience including documentaries, dramas, and live event holograms. Karl has been part of the PCBL team since July 2020 as Broadcast Operations Manager and has been involved with the deployment and operations of our PacHub LiveU systems, as well as, training our broadcasters in TV production. In a world first, Karl used live holograms for virtual attendees to the July 2021 PCBL CEO and Station Managers conference held in Auckland, New Zealand. Karl also gets behind the camera and uses his keen eye to film content for PCBL, both locally and abroad.
Mary Aue
Social Media
Mary hails from the villages of Hakupu mo Vaiea, Niue and manages our social media platforms as part of our digital team. She is the owner/director of her own social media consulting company and has extensive experience in the digital space with a focus on promoting and developing Pasifika voices using Effective Social Media. Mary has been crucial in building PasifikaTV’s online presence organically and has led social media workshops for our broadcasting partners.
Tia Soakai
Content Manager
Tia is of Solomon Islands and Tongan heritage. Born and raised in Munda, Solomon Islands. She was educated in New Zealand but spent most of her adult life in her country of birth. Tia is married with three grown children and currently lives in Auckland. Tia has 20 years’ experience in media and television production in the Paci¬c region. Tia spent the last 12 years with Oceania Football Confederation working closely with media officers of the OFC member associations and producing television and online coverage of regional tournaments.
Natasha Meleisea
Chief Executive
Natasha embeds an inclusive approach to all aspects of how she operates in business. Of Samoan heritage she weaves cultural diversity into her management style and embraces difference as a strength. Natasha brings more than 25 years of business management and marketing experience to the organisation with 20 years specifically in broadcast media and advertising; including senior executive roles in both commercial and not-for-profit media organisations with a focus on building indigenous media performance, capacity, and capability. She was integral in the establishment of PCBL - Pasifika TV in 2015 and later became its first CEO with the aspiration to strengthen the broadcasting collective of indigenous broadcasters across the Pacific.
Junior Hunter
Chief Operations Officer
Junior Hunter joined the team in July 2022 as the Chief Operations Officer. Junior is of Samoan Heritage and comes from a background in both the FMCG and Records Management industries spanning 30 years of experience in health & safety, people & contract management, operations and logistics. He has worked with companies such as Capital Dairy Products, Tui Foods, Mainland Products Ltd, Fonterra, Goodman Fielder, Recall and Iron Mountain.
Tui McKendrick
Head of Programming and Content
Tui brings a wealth of television experience to the team with more than 35 years working in the industry. Previously, the Head of Television for Oceania Football Confederation, and Executive Producer for Sky TV New Zealand, she draws upon her extensive experience in production and management of live broadcast media, as well as working in the Pacific. Tui has been involved with PCBL since 2016, and as the Head of Programming and Content, Tui sources and schedules our content for PasifikaTV ensuring that we have continuous service across the Pacific. She has been crucial in working alongside several of our broadcasting partners to rebroadcast their daily news programmes across the Pacific using our LiveU network.
Peter Fraser
Chief Financial Officer
Peter is a Chartered Accountant who is an owner/director of a consultancy business that specialises in financial recovery, cost control and management accounting to support organisational growth, and/or expansion into new markets. He joined PCBL in 2018 and brings extensive experience in business operations and traditional areas of financial management. Peter adds a strong financial acumen to the team, helping support all areas of PCBL to ensure programme delivery. He has experience in both private and public sectors as well as in media and technology companies. Peter has a long history of involvement in Pasifika organisations, having lived and worked in Samoa for three years and later working for the National Pacific Radio Trust
Sabrina Tian
Head of Marketing and Partner Programmes
Sabrina is an experienced marketer who excels in relationship management. She has previously worked at SkyCity and the Shangri-la hotel in Beijing before moving to Reef Group as Customer Relationship manager where she gained experience in the Pacific. Sabrina then moved to Pacific Cooperation Foundation working in various roles including programme management and then as Executive Manger. She joined Pacific Cooperation Broadcasting Limited (PCBL) in 2019 as the Marketing Programme Manager and is now our Head of Marketing and Partner Programmes. Sabrina uses her proven organisational and communication skills to produce results for PasifikaTV – most notably as the driving force behind our broadcaster training and Pasifika On Air programmes. Sabrina holds an MBA from the Auckland University of Technology with a focus in Marketing.
Scott Davies
Presentation Scheduler
Scott joined the team in 2019 as the Presentation Scheduler, building transmission schedules for the daily playout of content on PasifikaTV. He also assists with live events produced by PasifikaTV in a wide range of roles – such as staffing the playout room at TVNZ for our Polyfest 2022 broadcast. Scott has a certificate in Art and Design (Whitecliffe College of Art and Design), a certificate in Film and Television Production (South Seas Film and Television School) majoring in Postproduction and has worked at SKY Television Network for 20 years in various roles – Presentation Director/Entertainment Scheduler/Sport Scheduler/Scheduling Supervisor and On Air Controller. He has a passion for people, words, music, art, sport and of course, television.
Nathan Fraser
Executive Business Partner
Nathan is an up-and-coming talent who brings sales, marketing, and management experience from the retail sector. He joined PCBL in 2020 to aid with financial administration and advanced to a newly created role in 2021 as the Finance and Digital Platforms Administrator. In addition to his work in finance, Nathan has led the development of PasifikaTV’s digital presence starting with the redevelopment of the website. From there he started writing and publishing the achievements of PCBL including the deployment of the PacHub LiveU systems to our broadcasting partners and the delivery of our Pasifika On Air programming. He holds a BCom from the University of Auckland in Marketing and International Business and is of Niuean heritage.
Karl Schodt
Broadcast Operations Manager
Karl Schodt has over 25 years of production experience including documentaries, dramas, and live event holograms. Karl has been part of the PCBL team since July 2020 as Broadcast Operations Manager and has been involved with the deployment and operations of our PacHub LiveU systems, as well as, training our broadcasters in TV production. In a world first, Karl used live holograms for virtual attendees to the July 2021 PCBL CEO and Station Managers conference held in Auckland, New Zealand. Karl also gets behind the camera and uses his keen eye to film content for PCBL, both locally and abroad.
Mary Aue
Social Media
Mary hails from the villages of Hakupu mo Vaiea, Niue and manages our social media platforms as part of our digital team. She is the owner/director of her own social media consulting company and has extensive experience in the digital space with a focus on promoting and developing Pasifika voices using Effective Social Media. Mary has been crucial in building PasifikaTV’s online presence organically and has led social media workshops for our broadcasting partners.
Tia Soakai
Content Manager
Tia is of Solomon Islands and Tongan heritage. Born and raised in Munda, Solomon Islands. She was educated in New Zealand but spent most of her adult life in her country of birth. Tia is married with three grown children and currently lives in Auckland. Tia has 20 years’ experience in media and television production in the Paci¬c region. Tia spent the last 12 years with Oceania Football Confederation working closely with media officers of the OFC member associations and producing television and online coverage of regional tournaments.
Brent Impey
Chair of the Board
Brent is a professional director and also runs his own consultancy business which works alongside a diverse range of New Zealand corporate clients. Prior to this Brent was Chief Executive Officer at Mediaworks for over 11 years. He is an experienced public and private company director having served previously as either Chair/Director for the New Zealand Rugby Union for 10 years until 2022, SANZAAR, Finzsoft Solutions Limited, Fred Hollows Foundation, Director of Strategy, Ports of Auckland. He is currently a director for Yellow Pages Group, Devon Funds Management Ltd, JMI Wealth Limited, and Chair of Te Korowai o Waiheke (Predator Free 2050 for Waiheke). He previously practised law specialising in media. Brent was part of the consulting team that established PCBL and is excited to be back serving as a director.
Caren Rangi
Deputy Chair
Caren is a proud Cook Islands Māori who has a governance career that spans nineteen years on Boards in the broadcasting, health, and arts sectors. She is a qualified Chartered Accountant and is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand. Caren’s appointments include Chair of the Arts Council of New Zealand (Creative New Zealand) and Pacific Homecare Services; board member of Radio New Zealand, the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, and Pacific Inc Ltd (trading as Le Va). She is also a Director of the Cook Islands Investment Corporation in Rarotonga. Her service to governance and leadership was recognised in 2016 with the awarding of New Zealander of Year Local Hero Award and again in 2018 with the Linden Estate Hawke’s Bay Business Leader of the Year. Caren was further honoured with an Office of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2018 for services to governance and the Pacific community and in 2021 was made the inaugural Pacific Governance Leader at the Women in Governance awards. She is enthusiastic about supporting her Cook Islands and Pacific communities in New Zealand and the region to achieve their aspirations.
Annemarie Browne
Board Member
Prior to her current role as Chief Marketing Officer of Lotto New Zealand, Annemarie was CEO of Aspire2 Business; a part of the of the Aspire2 Group one of hew New Zealand’s largest private education groups. She brings over 25 years of broadcasting industry experience across multiple geographies with roles including senior sales, marketing, and content positions at ITV, Channel Seven, TV3 and TVNZ. Annemarie also worked extensively in the digital sector as Country Manager for SEEK New Zealand and Global Marketing Director for Orion Health. Annemarie holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Auckland and has held industry positions on the Advertising Standards Board, the Marketing and Communications Committee for Digital Switchover, and the Television Commercial Approvals Board.
Wendy Thompson
Board Member
With over twenty years experience in the advertising and marketing world, Wendy founded specialist social media agency Socialites in 2010 and grew it to be a full service production, media and digital agency working in 69 countries across the globe for clients such as Microsoft and Bupa. Rebranded in early 2023 to Thompson Spencer, her business acumen won her a finalist place in the New Zealand EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2021. Wendy brings an extensive knowledge of digital and social media to PCBL and has her finger firmly on the pulse of the future of new media broadcasting. Wendy has a Bachelor of International Business and Marketing and has held governance roles since 2015, including the Well Foundation and the iconic Womens’ Rugby World Cup in Aotearoa 2022.
Greg Drummond
Board Member
Greg is a 5th generation New Zealander of mixed Māori (Ngāti Porou) and Scottish heritage. His wife Lallit is a New Zealander of Fiji Indian heritage. In addition to serving on the board of PCBL, Greg consults through his own company Telemedia Consulting. Prior to this Greg completed a 26-year extended tour of duty at Sky Television in New Zealand as Director of Broadcasting and Media. In the latter part of his tenure he was a key sponsor for sporting events including the Rugby World Cup and Olympic and Commonwealth Games for New Zealand. Greg is an industry veteran with a proven results-focused record in television production operations, project delivery and organisational management. He has strong local and international relationships with television industry professionals, media technology suppliers, production companies, programme providers, and specialist media delivery companies.