We’re excited to announce our official judging panel for the New Zealand Xero Awards in 2021. This yr a few of Aotearoa’s most inspiring trade leaders and consultants are taking up the tough job of choosing our winners for the 11 award classes.
It’s time to satisfy the judges!
Michelle spent 20 years as an engineer constructing nanotechnology options for the hi-tech trade. In response to the shortage of variety she noticed throughout her engineering profession, in 2016 Michelle co-founded Nanogirl Labs, a socially acutely aware enterprise devoted to creating revolutionary and accessible methods for everybody to have a optimistic relationship with science and expertise.
Jamie is an skilled enterprise adviser with an enormous background working with small and enormous Maori companies throughout the motu. He at present splits his time because the GM Industrial Technique & Investments for Tauhara North No.2 Belief and Whariki, which provides Maori enterprise house owners a platform to come back collectively and a better voice in celebrating success and advocating enterprise coverage change.
Jolie is Chief Government and an Government Director for Spark New Zealand. Previous to becoming a member of Spark, Jolie held plenty of govt roles at Lion Group Australia and, earlier than that, at Deloitte New Zealand. She is a passionate supporter of ladies succeeding in enterprise.
Mary is a well-recognised, commercially astute thought chief in New Zealand with a ardour for social change. In 2020, Mary was appointed to Well timed’s govt management group, chargeable for HR features globally, cultural transformation, fairness, variety and inclusion technique, organisational growth, management functionality and public relations features.
Rochelle has been with Inland Income for greater than 13 years. One of many three portfolio’s Rochelle sits throughout focuses on tax intermediaries and their skilled our bodies, and he or she’s chargeable for representing them and their purchasers internally. Rochelle is enthusiastic about supporting intermediaries by enhancing companies and dealing collectively to make tax simpler for his or her mutual prospects.
David is a enterprise chief, public servant, guide, board director, speaker, and CEO of New Zealand Story, an bold government-funded organisation advertising New Zealand to the world. Originally of the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown, David co-founded Spend on Small Companies, a not-for-profit initiative that has, up to now, bought near $three million in vouchers for over 2,500 small companies.
Kendall is the co-founder and CEO of Banqer, a monetary schooling platform utilized by greater than 180,000 Australasian major college students. Kendall has a background in accounting, having labored at KPMG, earlier than retraining as a software program developer. With Banqer on the crossroads of those two industries, Kendall enjoys the problem that comes with rising a mission-driven enterprise the place she will be able to make a distinction in our communities.
Since 2017, Rick has led the New Zealand operations of worldwide accounting physique CPA Australia. With greater than 20 years’ enterprise growth and management expertise throughout monetary companies, recruitment and worldwide schooling, Rick is enthusiastic about creating and supporting members inside the accounting and finance trade.
Elizabeth based chnnl in 2019, an award-winning psychological security and wellbeing resolution that gives an nameless, secure house for workers to get help and that organisations can use to prioritise and shield the human aspect of the enterprise. As a medical physician, she’s enthusiastic about serving to workplaces fight points comparable to worker burnout, despair, nervousness and suicide, and is an lively researcher on this house.
Mark has greater than 20 years in public apply with the vast majority of that point as sole director of Quay Accountants within the sunshine capital of New Zealand, Whakatane. In 2014, he bought his agency to concentrate on his true ardour – serving to accountants speed up small enterprise success.
Frances is devoted to pushing Aotearoa ahead as a worldwide chief in innovation to construct a stronger, extra resilient future for all New Zealanders. A frontrunner and innovator in her personal proper, Frances based Tech Futures Lab in 2016 to foster the abilities wanted to develop a tradition of innovation, important for Kiwi companies to thrive on this period of fast-paced technological development.
Proudly driving member and membership outcomes, Jeanette is regional supervisor for the Auckland and Northland areas of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand. She works passionately with members, organisations, teachers and employers on daily basis, with the purpose of constructing and supporting a dynamic and vibrant skilled neighborhood.
A champion of the chartered accountants neighborhood, Neal has been regional supervisor for the Central North Island area of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand for the previous six years, following senior relationship administration roles with Fonterra, ANZ, ASB and Fisher & Paykel.
It’s your time to shine
Submit your nomination for the Xero Awards at the moment. Nominations are open till 11:55pm NZST on Friday 15 October 2021. Finalists will probably be introduced on Tuesday 2 November.