Board of Directors

P3 Research is solely owned by CBS Clinical Trials Ltd.

 

Professor Richard S Stubbs MD, FRCS, FRACS

Richard Stubbs has been in fulltime private practice at Wakefield Hospital, Wellington since 1991, when he established the Wakefield Gastroenterology Centre. He and his clinic have attained both a national and international reputation in the fields of liver surgery and obesity surgery, and he leads an active basic science research team in the Wakefield Biomedical Research Unit, which recently relocated to The Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences. That Unit is particularly involved in investigating the fundamental cause of insulin resistance and Type 2 diabetes, and the basis of metastasis in colorectal cancer. 

Richard was appointed to the position of Chairman of the P3 Research Board of Directors in May 2006, by Wakefield Health Ltd. when they were partners with the founding shareholder. In August 2006 CBS Trials Ltd., a company owned by John Calder, Richard Barnes and Richard Stubbs, purchased a 50% shareholding in the company and a year later secured the remaining 50%. Richard remains chairman of the Board of Directors.

 

Richard N Barnes BSc. AMInstD.

Richard Barnes was appointed to the P3 Board in April 2007. He was CEO of Wakefield Health/Wakefield Hospital for 16 years until his retirement from that position in March 2007, a director for 12 years and implemented the IPO and listing of Wakefield Health's shares on the NZSE. Richard has served as a trustee for the Wakefield Gastroenterology Research Trust since 1994. His 30 + years experience at GM/CEO level include three years at New Zealand Pharmaceuticals Ltd., a company with significant involvment in basic research, both in its own right and in association with major academic and commercial organisations.

Richard is Executive Director of P3 Research Ltd. and a shareholder/director of CBS Trials Ltd.

 

John Calder MB.ChB. FRACS(orth)

John Calder is a director of both CBS Trials Ltd and P3 Research Ltd. He is an orthopaedic surgeon in private practice in Tauranga and has been a director or chair of Wakefield for 18 years.His research interests have involved clinical aspects of orthopaedic surgery. He is a medical advisor to the research funding committee of the Catwalk Trust and is involved in the Tauranga Orthopaedic Research Institute.