Experience

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  Baker Tilly Staples Rodway

  • New Zealand
  • Accounting
  • 300 - 400 Employee

  • Director - Corporate Advisory Services

    • Feb 2024 - Present

  • Associate Director - Corporate Advisory Services

    • Oct 2022 - Feb 2024

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  Te Waka: Waikato's regional economic development agency

  • Investment Advisory Board Member

    • Apr 2022 - Sep 2022

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  New Zealand Trade and Enterprise

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Investment Manager

    • Dec 2018 - Sep 2022
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    I originate capital expansion projects by specialising in cutting edge sectors. With deep sector insights, I help companies build growth strategies by firstly aligning their personal and business aspirations, then by articulating an interactive execution process of perspective, position, patterns of action and capital planning.I accelerate capital projects by clearing roadblocks, preparing projects for investment and attracting investment funding from our investor networks.My current specialisations are pet food and value add dairy. I'm also responsible for developing Northland, Waikato and Bay of Plenty regions.

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  Grant Thornton New Zealand Ltd

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Associate Director - Corporate Finance

    • Mar 2017 - Nov 2018
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    I joined Grant Thornton as a senior accountant in July 2008 and a senior analyst in the corporate finance team in 2011. I was promoted to Assistant Manager in 2013, Manager in 2014 and Associate Director in 2017 after returning from a two year secondment in the UK. In the last two years before leaving Grant Thornton, I led the firm's Asia Services Group, a highly successful specialist division focused on advising the Asian business community on inbound, outbound and domestic growth opportunities.

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  Grant Thornton UK LLP

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Manager, Corporate Finance

    • Mar 2015 - Feb 2017
    • London, United Kingdom

    Advised London Stock Exchange listed companies, high net worth individuals and their family offices on corporate finance issues such as business and share valuation, strategic value creation and M&A transactions. Key focus sectors included Retail, Financial Services, Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, Renewable Energy and Technology.

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  Grant Thornton New Zealand Ltd

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Senior to Manager roles

    • Jun 2008 - Feb 2015
    • Auckland, New Zealand

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  BDO New Zealand

  • Rotorua

  • Accountant

    • Feb 2006 - Feb 2008
    • Rotorua

    Business advisory

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  Small Business Accounting

  • Rotorua

  • Accountant

    • Dec 2004 - Feb 2006
    • Rotorua

    Compliance tax and accounting advisory