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AirBNB Owner
The Village Haven, MatakanaAirBNB Owner
Oct. 2022The Village Haven Matakana is a beautiful architecturally designed four bedroom, three bathroom home and pool accommodating up to eight guests. https://www.airbnb.com/h/thevillagehaven
Shareholder
1Place ChildcareShareholder
Feb. 20221Place Childcare is a real-time visibility and reporting tool that replaces paper-based systems, allowing owners + managers to have oversight of multiple sites at a glance, improving productivity by streamlining administrative tasks, helping ensure all compliance requirements are met, and ensuring the health & safety of everyone onsite. 1Place Childcare has been adopted by some of the biggest industry brands across New Zealand, Australia and North America including Best Start, Provincial Education, New Shoots, Kindercare, Busy Bees, Childcare Network and many more. Other verticals include Starbucks, PaknSave, Genesis Energy, New World, Life Pharmacy, Z Energy, Mazda, QBE and more. www.1placeonline.com / www.1placechildcare.com
Investor
KindelloInvestor
Aug. 2021Kindello.com is the online marketplace that connects early learning services with their ideal customers at the ideal time – parents and families actively looking for childcare right now. www.kindello.com
Advisory Board
JUICE TechnologiesAdvisory Board
Jul. 2020 - Sep. 2021Australia/NZEncompassing Infocare Solutions, and APT Business Solutions, leading New Zealand operated Early Learning SMS systems.
Chief Executive Officer
Infocare SolutionsChief Executive Officer
Jun. 2019 - Apr. 2020Auckland, New ZealandInfocare is New Zealand’s largest Student Management System provider to the Early Learning sector. Led Australian owned Infocare Solutions through M&A, with change management, restructuring, rebranding, and set in motion regeneration of the tech stack. Acquired another NZ SMS provider (APT) during the same year via commerce commission approval, to double the size of the business customer base.
Chairperson
Advocates for Early Learning ExcellenceChairperson
May. 2019 - Nov. 2021New ZealandWe are one of the largest privately assembled industry groups for Early Learning, comprising approximately 20% of the private sector in New Zealand. Member of the Early Childhood Advisory Committee (ECAC).
Co-Founder/Director
Little Coasties Early LearningCo-Founder/Director
Feb. 2018 - May. 2020Manly, WhangaparaoaCreated this new build in conjunction with developers from the ground up, laid out for operational efficiency/design, and including playground design and resource kit out. Recruitment, regulatory and all requirements to licensing for 50 children. Centre reached capacity within 4 months. Our Mission at Little Coasties is to provide loving, meaningful care combined with an active programme of continuous learning and development to ensure the social and emotional wellbeing of all tamariki and families in our care. A premium setting licensed for a maximum of 50 children aged 0-5, located in Little Manly, Whangaparaoa.
Co-Founder/Director
Adventure Kids Early Learning CentreCo-Founder/Director
Sep. 2016 - May. 2020Silverdale, Auckland NZCreated this new build in conjunction with developers from the ground up, including playground design and resource kit out. Recruitment, regulatory and all requirements to licensing for 78 children. Centre reached capacity within 4 months.
Independent Director
Water Safety New ZealandIndependent Director
Apr. 2015 - Oct. 2017Wellington, New Zealand
Co-Founder / Director
Provincial Education GroupCo-Founder / Director
Apr. 2013 - Oct. 2021New ZealandCo-founded with 1 centre in 2013, Provincial Education quickly became a nationally diverse early education entity. Our multi-site growth trajectory was an incredible journey from 1 to 75 centres, with 1300+ staff, in 8 short years. Our growth included healthy acquisitions, greenfield developments, and a significant number of distressed acquisitions requiring major change. Waterman Capital Private Equity joined our entity in August 2017. Sold in full to International childcare provider Busy Bees in October 2021.
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