Pene has with the LBCNZ Board since 2011 and Chair since 2019.

Having been in real estate in Auckland since 2001, she merged her business Milne & Co Real Estate with NZ Sotheby’s International Realty in 2015.

Prior to real estate, Pene was a senior nurse manager and clinical risk manager working for the BOP District Health Board over 18 years.

Pene was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 1996 and has been in remission since 2004 after extensive treatments culminated in a bone marrow transplant. She has three adult children all in their 30’s and a real appreciation of the challenges to be faced with diagnosis and treatment issues while supporting and raising young children.