Lake — who has been a licensed amateur for more than 50 years — has been involved with IARU activities for more than 25 years and a Director of Region 3 since February 2005. He began his professional career as an engineer, first with the New Zealand Post Office and then with Telecom New Zealand. He followed this with 14 years at a small and specialized telecommunications consulting company in Wellington that included a wide variety of assignments in the Pacific, Asia and Southeast Asia.
“My ‘style’ will probably be different from Michael’s in some ways,” Lake explained, “but our goals are the same — to ensure a growing and successful IARU Region 3.”