Board Chair - Anna Galvan
Anna Galvan is known for her extensive career in netball as a player from 1996 until 2012. Anna is Silver Fern #124 and played in the team from 2000 – 2002, including the Manchester Commonwealth Games. Anna was part of the semi-professional era as a player for the Canterbury Flames, Southern Sting and Tactix teams and as a member of the Canterbury netball team for over 15 years, including time as Captain. Anna has held multiple coaching positions, including Junior and Secondary School teams, age-group Christchurch teams, the Tactix National Netball League team, as Apprentice Coach and the Defensive coach for the Tactix team. She has also coached at Netball New Zealand Development Camp and as part of the New Zealand U21 Programme.
Anna has held several governance roles since 2016, including the last three as Chair of the Christchurch Netball Centre Board. She is a member of the Institute of Directors, and is also on the Advisory Board at the University of Canterbury Students' Association, the Tactix Netball Team Steering Committee, and is a current director of Netsal Sports Centre.
Anna works as a General Manager at Te Hono – a partnership between the leaders of Aotearoa New Zealand’s food and fibre sector companies, iwi and government agencies. Te Hono is leading the charge to transform the way the sector operates from being predominantly focused on export volume under a commodity-based trading model to a value-based model producing and exporting products of higher consumer value whilst acknowledging the precious nature of the resources make this possible.