Meet our Board
John Scutter
Chair
John operates a business turnaround and restructuring consulting company in Paraparaumu Beach. He has been a long-time resident on the Kāpiti Coast, attending secondary school at Kāpiti College and obtaining his first full time employment opportunity as an Accountant, after completing his degree at Victoria University, on the Kāpiti Coast.
John is passionate about giving back to the community and encouraging employers and employees to grow together, maximising the opportunities available to them. As a Chartered Accountant, with over 25 years’ experience in public practice and completing his MBA studies on the elements required for a successful business, John provides a good understanding of business and business growth opportunities to employ to the Trust.
Meet Julia!
Julia is the Director at Star People HR & Recruitment - curating a talent pool of star people for businesses on the Kapiti Coast and beyond.
Julia's desire to make the world a better place is reflected in her business purpose - to grow business and employment in the communities we work in.
Top accomplishments: Raising 3 pretty awesome humans, creating a sustainable business, and giving back to the communities she is part of through various projects in sport and her local residence of Reikorangi.
When not helping others to improve the quality of their lives, Julia is happiest in gumboots on the farm, riding horses, motorbikes, skiing in the winter and e-biking to work when she can. Julia secretly enjoys baking way too much!
Tracey Nyhan
Board member
Meet John!
Meet Tracey!
Over 20 years experience in the Banking and financial sector, leading and developing people to personal success. Currently Senior Customer Engagement Manager for Kiwibank supporting teams to build capability.
Tracy’s passion is helping young people to develop skills, confidence and resilience in themselves as they prepare to join the workforce. Having been involved in youth development for many years including Girl Guiding and the Gateway program with local colleges the work of the Trust sits with my personal values of ensuring that all young people are given a chance to succeed. Tracy Is also currently Chairperson of Kapiti Coast United and President of the newly formed Horewhenua and Coast Football Club.
Meet Kim!
Kim is the HOD of Careers and Transition at Paraparaumu College. She is an experienced educator of both secondary and primary school students, and a school careers counsellor and has been teaching for 20 years. She is very passionate about helping young people to be future-ready courageous learners who are ready for the world of work. Helping young people to achieve the highest equitable outcomes by being able to access real-life work experiences and higher education is at the heart of everything she does.
Kim has assisted students to be a part of Work Ready Kāpiti programmes since 2019 and has helped Paraparaumu College to be awarded at the Work Ready Kāpiti Annual Awards The Most Engaged and Invested School trophy in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2023.
She lives with her husband John who is a self-employed plumber and avid mountain biker, and her daughter Anika who is currently Year 13 and Head Girl at Paraparaumu College.
Her son Jackson is a second-year University student at The University of Otago, studying Physics and Computer Science. She also has a mini schnauzer named Theo and a huge ragdoll cat named Katniss.
In her downtime, Kim enjoys dog walking, camping holidays, thrift shopping, reading great books, and anything creative.
Julia Palmer
Board member
Kim Kelly
Board member
Shelby Bothamley
Board member
Meet Shelby!
Shelby was born in Lower Hutt Hospital and grew up in the Hutt Valley with five brothers. She has been a Kapiti resident for 14 years.
She has three adult daughters and has always had an interest in supporting tamariki and rangatahi. In 1999 she initiated National Childrens’ Day and this came to fruition in 2000.
She founded Rata St OSCAR programme at Rata St School in Naenae which provided Before and After School, and Holiday Programmes from 2002. Her mission was to provide high quality, low cost, out of school care services in a low socio economic area so that other single parents had access to care so they could return to work.
From 2008 – 2012, Shelby worked at the Kapiti Work & Income office as a Work Broker. This enabled her to continue with her passion for supporting rangatahi into work. Since then, Shelby has had various roles involving recruitment and onboarding for people of all ages and nationalities. She is currently in a recruiting role for civil construction company, Brian Perry Civil, a Fletcher owned company.
In her downtime, Shelby enjoys gardening, following true crime channels on You Tube and spending time with family and friends
