Experience

Venues Ōtautahi

• New Zealand
• Events Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Associate Director

  • Oct 2022 - Present



Citycare Property

• New Zealand
• Construction
• 1 - 100 Employee

• General Manager Corporate Services

  • Dec 2020 - Present



Smiths City (2020) Limited

• Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

• Interim GM Corporate Services

  • Jun 2020 - Dec 2020



Campus Living Villages

• Australia
• Higher Education
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Contract Project Manager

  • Mar 2020 - May 2020

  A contract role working on business improvement initiatives following rapid regulatory change. Given time imperatives, I needed to listen well, think through the issues, and harness internal expertise to solve problems and strengthen stakeholder relationships - and all at a time when Covid hit! A contract role working on business improvement initiatives following rapid regulatory change. Given time imperatives, I needed to listen well, think through the issues, and harness internal expertise to solve problems and strengthen stakeholder relationships - and all at a time when Covid hit!



CFO at CargoChain and Jade Logistics

• Christchurch, New Zealand

• Commercial Manager (and CFO)

  • May 2018 - Nov 2019

  I was brought on board as CFO of CargoChain and supported the CEO in a process to raise capital raising through an innovative ICO, and then subsequently seeking investment through the issue of shares. This was an exciting start up time period, despite problems securing funders in the short time frames. With a shift in strategy, my attention moved to focusing on the parent company Jade Logistics and managing its finances, assisting with seeking investors for that company, sorting through the historic issues related to a material key supplier, and transitioning a shared service arrangement in house from third party provider.



Otakaro Limited

• Christchurch

• General Manager Corporate Services (and CFO)

  • May 2016 - May 2018

  I led a project team to establish Otakaro’s business infrastructure over a 14 week period. This enabled the organisation to take over major infrastructure projects from CERA. This was a remarkable project to complete everything from finding building space, creating an IT environment, and recruiting initial staff to be ready day 1 to maintain project momentum for the infrastructure projects. Following a successful business establishment project, I was recruited to a permanent role to lead Health and Safety, Finance, HR, IT, and Risk and Assurance functions. Alongside the others in the leadership team, we successfully developed a strong Safety and Wellness culture, and this had the effect of building a fabulous wider culture which continues to exist today. In this role, I worked alongside the CEO (and wider leadership team) to ensure an effective Board/Management relationship.



Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority

• Chief Financial Officer

  • Jan 2012 - Apr 2016

  Following the Christchurch earthquakes, my CFO role required me to come up to speed quickly with machinery of government dynamics, in order to ensure CERA’s activities were funded. In addition, in a fast moving but short term entity, I needed to ensure the control environment was appropriate, and continued to develop alongside a changing organisation. My role broadened considerably as I took on responsibility for the risk and assurance function, programme management, large scale debt recovery, and working with multi national insurers to recover insurance proceeds for properties purchased by the Crown. As the organisation developed further and began planning and delivering large scale infrastructure build projects, I was seconded to establish a specific programme management office to coordinate and monitor the delivery of these projects. At all times in this role, I maintained close (daily)relationships with Treasury. Relationships with other agencies included Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Ministry of Social Development, MBIE, NZ Police and SFO.



NZ Cricket

• Christchurch

• Chief Financial Officer

  • May 2010 - Dec 2011

  Working in a world class sports and entertainment organisation, I gave executive leadership to the development of the organisations’ strategy, supported the CEO in enhancing the relationship with the Players Association, and helped the Finance team believe in themselves to be more efficient and understand their customer needs. In addition, I developed a long-term funding arrangement with the organisations’ bankers, developed a fit for purpose Treasury function (particularly fx management), and supported the CEO working with the Board to navigate issues across grass roots and elite programmes.



Meridian Energy

• New Zealand
• Utilities
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Retail Finance and Commercial Manager

  • Jun 2007 - Apr 2010

• NZ Operations Finance Manager

  • Apr 2004 - Jun 2007

• Various Finance roles at Meridian and KPMG Consulting (consulting to Meridian)

  • Dec 1999 - Apr 2004



Pyne Gould Corporation

• Company Accountant and Group Treasurer

  • Sep 1995 - Dec 1999



Coopers and Lybrand

• Audit

  • Feb 1992 - Sep 1995