Leadership team

Brent Pattison joined Heritage Lifecare as CEO in 2025, bringing a strong background in business leadership, strategic growth, and financial expertise. With a career spanning aged care, investment banking, and corporate strategy, Brent is focused on ensuring Heritage continues to provide high-quality, sustainable care to older New Zealanders. Before joining Heritage, Brent was CEO of Oceania, where he led the organisation through a period of growth and transformation. His earlier career in investment banking saw him advising on mergers, acquisitions, and corporate takeovers, including acting as the lead adviser on Oceania’s IPO in 2017. A qualified Chartered Accountant, Brent has held senior executive roles across aged care, telecommunications, and financial services. His leadership is approachable, commercially driven, and future-focused, ensuring Heritage remains a leader in aged care while keeping residents at the heart of everything we do. Brent is passionate about creating an environment where residents feel at home, families feel reassured, and staff feel valued, with a strong emphasis on delivering A Better Everyday for everyone who calls Heritage home.

Margaret joined Heritage Lifecare in 2017, bringing with her a wealth of experience in Human Resource management gained here in New Zealand and abroad in Australia and the UK. Margaret expertly leads our People and Culture function, supporting the company’s employment and industrial relations, culture and performance, change management, remuneration and benefits, learning and development, talent acquisition and people advisory and payroll functions. As a transformational leader Margaret brings more than 20 years’ experience establishing best-practice people functions across diverse industries ranging from financial services, steel and heavy machinery to education and aged care. She is deeply committed to supporting and developing our people, attracting new talent to the sector and promoting a culture of best practice and collaboration that promotes inclusion, diversity and equality for all our people. Margaret has a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Massey University and an MBA from Victoria University of Wellington.

Peter joined Heritage Lifecare with a great depth of financial, operational and commercial skills and a strong track record of delivering results to his role overseeing all of the organisation’s financial activities. Peter has more than 20 years’ international experience in utilities, telecoms, manufacturing, online, retail and professional services businesses in The Netherlands and Germany as well as senior management experience with a an NZX listed company. Peter oversees our finance function. His key objectives are to support and lead the business in optimising financial performance, enabling growth and improving decision-making through reporting. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and is a chartered accountant.

Upon joining Heritage Lifecare, Tamsin brought extensive experience in both commercial and health care sectors in New Zealand and the UK. Within these sectors, she has had considerable marketing and communications experience. Tamsin is our ‘strategic brain’, bringing to the table her skills across marketing, e-business, communications, project management, analytics, and emergency management to support effective development of initiatives to create ‘A Better Everyday’. She responsible for the development and supervision of all marketing and communications strategies for Heritage Lifecare and provides senior leadership to ensure we are connected to our people, residents and communities. Tamsin has a Bachelor of Business Studies, majoring in management.

Glen joined Heritage Lifecare after working in the technology field in a variety of roles in New Zealand and overseas for more than 20 years. After spending time in the financial sector with JP Morgan in the UK and Germany he relocated to New Zealand and took up a succession of IT management roles in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) and education sectors prior to joining Heritage Lifecare. Glen is a firm believer that technology should be an enabler for people and that technology solutions are most successful when they enhance and assist people to do their jobs more efficiently. He is accountable for the delivery of reliable, secure, and well-performing technology solutions. This includes making sure that systems underpin overall strategic goals and are effective at all levels across the Heritage Lifecare network of care homes and villages.