Who are our leadership team?

Caz is a general practitioner of 20+ years experience. In addition to her role as a family doctor, she has worked as a clinical lead in mental health and in health system information flow. More recently she has worked as a medical sexual assault clinician, and as a GP in a forensic service. Caz founded the Centrepoint Restoration Project in 2015, a website and contact point for child survivors of the Centrepoint cult, a cult she lived in as a child. Since 2023 she has been co-host of the award-winning podcast and radio-show Cult Chat. Caz wrote a series of guidelines in this role for front line health workers who work with cult survivors which was published all over New Zealand in 2024. She is an advocate of children in cults, firmly pushing for increased awareness of the harms they are exposed to in cults, for increased safety measures, and legislative change.

Dennis works in governance and consulting roles supporting social enterprises, charities and community organisations, including as Chair of the Decult Trust and a director of Trade Aid Importers Ltd. A Chartered Member of the NZ Institute of Directors with an MA in sociology, his research focused on autoethnographic studies of organisational change and disruption. He brings expertise in strategic planning, organisational development and systems leadership, with governance and management experience across business, tertiary education, central government and NGOs, including senior roles at Macpac, the University of Canterbury and the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority. Raising cult awareness is important to him because of his personal experience inside high-control groups as a young adult.