Ivan Sutherland, Blenheim, MNZM,
For services to rowing and viticulture. Mr Sutherland was elected as Chair of Rowing New Zealand in 2010 and is President of the Wairau Rowing Club. He is Chair of the Marlborough Research Centre Board, which runs the Marlborough Wine Research Centre in Blenheim. He was a bronze medal-winning rower in the 1976 Olympics in Montreal and managed the New Zealand rowing team for the 1988 Seoul Olympics and the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. He was a national rowing selector for 12 years, has been an active rowing coach and was on the Karapiro 2010 Board for the World Rowing Championships. He is also a respected viticulturist, working at the award winning Cloudy Bay winery, until he established Dog Point Vineyard.