Kerry has over 30 years’ experience working in small and medium sized businesses (“SME’s”) ranging in size from $5M – $100M+ turnover. He has operated with considerable success in a number of senior functional roles including finance, operations, sales & marketing and general management. He has worked across different industry sectors primarily manufacturing, import & distribution, retail, food and not for profit organisations.

Kerry’s ability to connect vision and strategy with on the ground business culture is the cornerstone of his work as a provider of business advisory, management consultancy, leased executive and more recently governance services. He has during this time built a reputation for being a safe, trustworthy and respectful “pair of hands” within which to entrust one’s business. As an effective change agent, Kerry has demonstrated a special ability to understand a business’ culture, how it operates, what its critical success factors are and to build strong and effective relationships at all levels, providing mentoring, direction and empowerment to employees enabling them to make decisions, take action and deliver value.

Kerry’s commercial acumen, completer-finisher personality and focus on outperforming agreed expectations are the foundations on which he delivers significant value to the businesses he works with.

Kerry grew up on a dairy farm in Taranaki then spent some time in Te Puke, Hamilton and Wellington before relocating permanently to Auckland in 1989 where he now lives on a small lifestyle block in Whitford with his wife Kerry Deanne.

Kerry has a Bachelor of Management Studies (Honours) Degree from Waikato University and a Diploma in Business (Marketing) from Auckland University. He is professionally qualified as a Chartered Accountant (CA), is a member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand and is a member of the Institute of Directors in New Zealand.