Ski Staff

Colin, originally from Scotland, started his ski instructing career at Coronet Peak, in 1995. Since then he has never looked back and has been doing winter seasons between Queenstown and Val d’Isere, France. Colin has been an Examiner with the NZSIA since 2006. He is...

Tim started skiing at 3 on Coronet Peak under the guise of his father Wayne, a former NZSIA instructor.  Having figured out at the age of 12 skiing was the only sport he wasn’t terrible at Tim decided to pursue the sport through the world of ski racing....

Yusuke was born and raised in the capital of powder skiing; Japan. However The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, he left Japan 2006, moved to Europe skiing after learning English in Canada and stayed in Europe for 8 years. Since 2015 he moved to...

Harry Mcfadden started skiing at Mt Hutt and Broken River as a teenager and started his pathway into the ski instruction world in 2010 after leaving school when he enrolled in a training program at Cardrona and completed the Level 1 And Level 2 Certifications. Since...

Daniel started skiing at the age of 11 on a school ski trip. He loved it so much he convinced his family that it was a sport they should all do. Since then its been all downhill. (Skiing Downhill) . Both Daniel and his brother carried on to become NZSIA examiners and...

Jonathan began teaching skiing at age 14 for the Mt. Brighton Ski School in South Eastern Michigan. After attending several years of University as music major, Jonathan decided music was an unstable profession and decided to pursue a more upwardly mobile and lucrative...

Josh was fortunate to find his passion when he got his first job in a small ski school in the Swiss Alps in 2011. Since then, his passion in snowsports instructing has driven him to make a rewarding career in the art of teaching skiing. Josh is a dual certified ski...

Toby is a North Island boy who grew up skiing on the Magic Mountain of Mt Ruapehu. A little grom skiing a slalom course through the T-bars. Since then Toby has made his Career in the ski industry for 10 years working first as a rookie then moving to coaching and...

Jon first learnt to ski in 1985, qualified as an instructor in 2000 and has been in love with ski teaching ever since. For the last decade he has been living the endless winter moving between a southern hemisphere based in Wanaka where he and his lovely wife now own a...

Martin decided to pursue ‘the dream’ in 2009 by travelling to NZ to qualify as a ski instructor. After spending a winter at Porters skiing, training and socialising he realised the ski world was far more fulfilling than the job he had left in England. He immediately...

Ashley cut his teeth skiing around 3 years of age at Broken River and Mount Hutt. A move to Queenstown following on from that started Ashley's real involvement in the industry a junior racer in the Queenstown Alpine Ski Team.  A few season's as an athlete training and...

Emilie started skiing at age 3 in Whakapapa's Happy Valley. She spent a year persuading her parents to drive 4 hours from Auckland every weekend, and at 12 joined the Turoa Race Team. In 2005 she started teaching skiing at Auckland's brand new indoor slope Snowplanet....

Sarah aka Sem, is a nomad from Taranaki, NZ.  She was raised on skis at Turoa, Mt. Ruapehu and came to the NZSIA examing team in 2009.  Whilst studying at Otago University she hitch hiked every winter weekend to Wanaka, Queenstown and surrounding local ski resorts to...

Bob’s been teaching skiing since 1979 and now has more than 50 seasons experience from across Austria, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand and North America. Bob spent four years as the Treble Cone Ski School Director and is now a member of the Instructor Training...