2008 Making Their Mark Recipients

Four exceptional women were celebrated in July 2008 at the St Cuthbert’s College inaugural Making Their Mark awards. Inspired by the Sir Peter Blake Leadership Awards, the awards are a new initiative and a way of acknowledging Old Girls who are either “making their mark” in their chosen field or who have had a lifetime of significant achievement.
Held during Sir Peter Blake Leadership Week, Pippa Lady Blake was present as a guest to help celebrate.
The calibre of this year’s recipients was outstanding. Director of Development, Mrs Debbie Cook says St Cuthbert’s College Old Girls are “making their mark” in all areas of society, not just the traditional areas such as sports and business, but also in the arts, community, culture, equity, ethnic affairs, education, research, public service and the environment. These annual awards will acknowledge this wide range.

Carly Arnold

Group General Manager, Performance, Infratil Airports Carly Arnold has worked her way up in her chosen career path, the aviation industry, over the past nine years. Her work in diverse roles, from software development, business analysis, process re-engineering, to programme and change management, and general management, saw her named in UK magazine, Management Today’s list of the Top 35 women under 35, in 2006.

Most recently Carly is the group general manager of performance for Infratil Airports at Glasgow Prestwick, Kent and Luebeck. She is responsible for the identification and delivery of new products and efficiency improvements, strategic organisational development and sharing best practice.
Prior to this she was the easyJet Airline Company general manager for their Bristol and Newcastle airport operations and then more recently for their London Luton airport operations.

After attending St Cuthbert’s College, Carly completed a Bachelor of Engineering with first class honours and a Bachelor of Commerce at The University of Auckland in 1999.
She first began as an Air New Zealand operations research analyst before moving to the UK and taking up a position at easyJet which led to five promotions within the company.

Carly is 31 and married to Joshua.

Rachel Paris

As well as consistently achieving top-of-the-class awards, Rachel Paris has a balanced legal career as a finance lawyer with an interest in media and film.

Currently she is a senior associate with top Auckland law firm Bell Gully, where she first began her legal career after graduating in a conjoint law and BA degree in 2000, coming top of Law School and her honours programme.
In 2003, Rachel came first of the twelve students at Harvard Law School, selected for admission into the specialist International Finance LLM programme
In December 2007 her dissertation was cited as being "influential" in The Wall Street Journal editorial.
She also achieved an A grade in Harvard’s Entertainment and Media Law course and was a film critic for the Harvard Law School weekly magazine The Record.

While at Allen & Overy’s Projects Group in London (2003-2005) she advised blue-chip clients on the financing and structuring of major infrastructure and acquisition projects
Later, at the UK’s leading technology, communications and media law firm Olswang, she advised household names, including The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros, on film production financing.

At Bell Gully, Rachel specializes in financial services, with particular expertise in media advising and financing of entertainment production.

Rachel has written five publications and received numerous prizes and scholarships for academic, leadership and professional excellence.She has also co-written a feature film screenplay which has been optioned by South Pacific Pictures and she is now working on developing it with them.

Rachel went to school at St Cuthbert’s College and is married to Jason with 15 month old son Sam.

Rachel Paris, one of the St Cuthbert’s College inaugural Making Their Mark recipients, has received one of the 2009 Sir Peter Blake Leadership Awards. To read more information about the Sir Peter Blake Leadership Awards click here.

Bridget Doell

GDB Sectional-Sergeant, Auckland City Sergeant Bridget Doell’s career in the Police force has taken her all over the world and seen her in positions of great responsibility back home in New Zealand. At present Bridget is a Street Sergeant and acting duty Senior Sergeant in Auckland City, responsible for 20 general duty staff; Incident Controller at major incidents and Custody Sergeant, responsible for five-six staff and monitoring and managing welfare and safety of up to 50 prisoners in custody at any one time.

Bridget was deployed to Afghanistan in October last year as a mentor and advisor of 15 Bamyan Regional Training Centre Instuctors and ANP.
In January she received her New Zealand Police Long Service and Good Conduct Medal during a graduation ceremony at the training centre in Afghanistan, and returned home in April.

Other positions have included Advisor to the Bougainville Community Policing project in Papua New Guinea and National Investigator during ethnic tensions in Honiara, Solomon Islands.

As well as gaining ongoing Police qualifications, Bridget graduated from Otago University with a Bachelor of Commerce in 1993 after attending school at St Cuthbert’s College.