WE CREATE AND PRESERVE VALUE

Tobin is a finance and management professional with 25 years' experience mainly with PricewaterhouseCoopers and General Electric in New Zealand, England and the United States in a number of senior general management, finance, quality and performance improvement roles: typically in mergers and acquisitions, where he has over 20,000 hours due diligence experience, and business turnarounds, mainly for private equity clients or their investee companies.

In 2007 Tobin established Accelerated Transaction Consulting focusing on providing expert strategic and financial advice mainly for businesses undergoing a transformation process. Tobin has a deep understanding of the needs of private equity investors, and also of banks where he has managed the cashflows of businesses in "bad bank" whilst driving longer-term profit improvement initiatives.

A Chartered Accountant, Tobin also has extensive experience as a Chief Financial Officer, and more recently as Chief Operating Officer in listed and unlisted companies. He therefore brings a unique combination of due diligence expertise combined with experience at the coal-face. With an MBA specialising in strategy, Tobin has a deep understanding of business drivers in mature businesses; and he is part way through a Masters in Commerce and Entrepreneurship, which is providing a similar insight into early stage businesses.

My initial background was in legal (a lawyer for 9 years) and investment banking (5 years). When I returned to New Zealand from the UK in 2007 I became involved in a range of businesses, both as an executive, and as an owner, including a tech start up, property investor, and solar PV importer and installer. I'm an active participant in the NZ and International capital markets, and have experience with private equity in NZ and Australia. In 2010, I assisted Bluestone Capital Management in its diligence pre-acquisition of a number of NZ distressed loan portfolios.

In more recent years, I've been involved in the NZ start up community as an investor, independently and with Auckland's Ice Angels. This ultimately led me to undertaking the Auckland Business School's Masters in Commercialisation and Entrepreneurship course.

My interests are in all aspects of business generally, with a particular focus on the value creating requirements of what business needs to do to grow and make stronger decisions. I consider myself a useful sounding board for business owners, and am happy to operate at a high strategic level or get involved in the finer detail, as needed.

Nathalie has over 15 years' experience in organisational development, spanning people strategy, culture change, leadership development, high performing teams and talent management.

Over this time, she has coached many executives, working with them to maximise their strengths, build a compelling leadership brand and engage others through an authentic leadership approach. This has proven of significant benefit for accelerating success of first 90 days in role, during and post organisational change and career transitions.

She has worked in a number of global leadership and coaching roles within the financial services, manufacturing, FMCG and educational sectors. Her qualifications as a psychologist, corporate banker and HR professional create a unique approach that balances behavioural insight and organisational development knowledge with pragmatic commercial applicability.

Nathalie started her career in the UK as a corporate banker with Halifax Bank of Scotland, specialising in project finance and syndications before moving into a number of global organisational development roles. Over the course of around 10 years in the financial services industry, Nathalie successfully led significant cultural change agendas, restructures and mergers in addition to coaching and developing talent, executive and senior leaders. Upon moving to New Zealand, Nathalie led the leadership and talent agenda at the University of Auckland before moving to Fonterra where she had global responsibility for talent and organisational development.

Declan is one of New Zealand's most experienced tax professionals with an international outlook and a track record of developing businesses and people in New Zealand and overseas.

Declan was a Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers for 25 years including 20 years in New Zealand where over various periods he was leader of the Tax M&A practice; International Tax practice and Financial Services.

Declan and Tobin have worked together on numerous due diligence transaction for New Zealand and Australian private equity and corporate clients. Declan has a skill of quickly getting to the heart of the matter and communicating value preserving matters concisely and in a manner that can be widely understood.

Declan now wants to use his experience to help businesses chart the difficult waters of moving into international markets and preparing businesses for M&A transactions.

Declan is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and a Chartered Tax Adviser. He is a Graduate of the Advanced Management Program from the Wharton School of the University of Philadelphia.

Shauna is an HR practitioner with 16 years' professional experience. She has a passion for all things people related. A graduate of the Dublin Business School, Shauna has worked in Ireland, the United Kingdom and New Zealand, and has a wealth of experience to draw on. She has worked in a variety of sectors including Health, Technology and Finance to name a few, and her experience ranges from early stage start-up businesses to General Electric, one of the World's largest corporations.

In 2011 Shauna established her own consultancy firm to address a gap in the market, focusing on providing HR expertise to organisations both at an operational and strategic level. By understanding the strategic focus of an organisation, Shauna utilises her experience to enable businesses achieve their desired outcomes through their people.

With a big picture approach Shauna is able to support organisations create value through the development of their HR Strategy while also preserving value ensuring Legislative Compliance including Health and Safety compliance. With her hands on style, she supports Performance and Talent Management along with Organisational Alignment (Redundancy and Restructure) when required.

Audrey is a Chartered Accountant and corporate finance professional with over 20 years experience in Scotland and New Zealand. After qualifying with Andersen in its audit department, Audrey moved into the corporate finance sector, advising on acquisitions, disposals, management buy-outs and capital raising exercises as well as undertaking valuations and due diligence exercises. She has also advised early stage companies on their strategy and readiness for raising capital.

Audrey has also had experience in industry as Financial Controller for Burger King New Zealand, during which time Burger King underwent a sales process. She has therefore had experience of due diligence on 'both sides of the fence' as well as day to day management of a finance team.