Justin is the CEO for Jade. He has held several roles during his 10+years at Jade, including responsibility for all customer-facing strategy and activities, driving growth in the Jade ThirdEye, and Jade Platform business across all markets and scaling Jade's digital business in Australia. He brings an astute ‘voice of the customer’ mindset and an absolute dedication to customer-centric technology solutions that drive meaningful business outcomes for our clients.

As Director of Technology, Dean has a wealth of experience leading technology strategies and teams across large, complex organisations. Prior to Jade, Dean spent seven years at Telstra across several roles, the last two years as a Group Owner with responsibility for 50 people. Dean is a Jade "re-recruit" having started his career as part of our graduate program in 1989. He was an early-stage member of the Jade Platform R&D team before moving into product management and spent several years running our UK business.

Chris has held several systems management and infrastructure design roles during his time at Jade. He is the principal architect of Jade's Care24 systems management service. Chris is famous for his obsession with standardisation, automation, and best practice.

Kate joined Jade in 2018 to lead the People and Capability team. She is an experienced HR professional who has a passion for supporting and building great organisational cultures and creating an environment in which people thrive. Before Jade, Kate was Chief People and Culture Officer at Comvita Limited (CVT:NZX). Outside of work, most of Kate's free time is focussed on her young family and exploring Canterbury.

As the Director of Delivery, Jane has extensive experience in leading and managing multiple teams and projects simultaneously, from implementation to delivery phase. Working in fast-paced environments, constantly thinking on her feet and creating enthusiastic energy to get the best out of the people is the norm. As an open and strong communicator, Jane forges relationships and trust quickly. This has been extremely important while having to manage clients and internal project teams in the United Kingdom, Australia, Switzerland, France, Saudi Arabia, USA, and New Zealand.

As Director of Product Strategy, Tim uses a creative leadership approach coupled with his extensive management experience in internationally focused technology companies to drive the future direction of Jade’s products. He is accomplished at developing and implementing strategic business plans and the commercialisation of new technology. Having a strong marketing background and experience in both B2B and B2C industries, Tim enjoys the challenge of growing and developing tools that help businesses to realize their future potential.

As the Head of Experience Design Scarlett lifted Jade’s Experience Design practice embedding the value of people first and framing up how we ‘solve the right problem and solve the problem right.’ Her role as part of the SLG is to turn this lens internally with a focus on Company optimisation. With Jade’s values front of mind, Scarlett will be focused on maintaining the dynamic intersections between our people, the services we deliver and our customers. Based out of Wellington, Scarlett spends any spare time with her three small children and restoring her 1900s family home.

Nick will be a familiar face to many in Canterbury and in the tech industry. With a passion for seeing NZ tech companies succeed, Nick brings in-depth experience advising and coaching in business development and operations management. Having progressed his own companies from start-up to multi-national exit and into new phases of growth, Nick joins the SLG as Director of Customer to guide Jade’s growth plans. In his spare time Nick enjoys family time, travel, golfing, running, craft gin and beer.

As Head of Finance and Sustainability Geoff keeps the company finances and financial strategy on track. He brings a human-centric, continuous improvement mindset to accounting. Geoff is a Chartered Accountant with experience managing the books in many industries including retail, manufacturing and event management. He also heads up the company's sustainability team. When he is not hanging out with his wife and two young children he can be found hurtling up and down hills on a mountain bike.

Niamh joins us from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment where she has been heading up the ICT Commercial Performance practice for the last 4 years. Leading teams of contract managers, strategic sourcing, supplier relationship managers, commercial business partners and an insight's function built from concept.
Prior to that Niamh held senior roles with global technology organisations as an employee, vendor and client in Dublin and the US. Niamh has broad leadership experience gained from delivering services, building and executing strategies and leading transformations internationally for Dropbox, Microsoft, Accenture, AT&T, Vodafone, HP and Compaq. She has led commercial negotiations, unpicked legacy arrangements, managed performance and relationship with global organizations. Niamh holds an LL.B in Irish Law.

Sue Suckling is one of New Zealand’s most experienced company directors and chairpersons, with over 25 years in governance roles across a range of sectors.
Sue is a Companion of the NZ Royal Society, and a Fellow of the Institute of Directors.
Her experience spans corporate governance, commercial investment, Mergers & Acquisitions, change strategies, international marketing, digital disruption, and harnessing science and technology for business growth.

Julia is a professional Company Director with experience across a number of sectors including airline, telecommunications, media, energy, local government and not-for-profit. Prior to her Governance career Julia was the Chief Information Officer of Air New Zealand, and has extensive experience in digital, technology and business strategy and transformation across the airline, telecommunications and local government sectors, as well as not-for-profit in New Zealand.
Julia has overseen a number of world firsts in innovation, winning a number of local and global awards. She was awarded the NZ CIO of the Year award in 2009. Julia is a Chartered Member of the New Zealand Institute of Directors and a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Julia is passionate about growing the number of females working in technology, and works with a number of institutions to drive awareness of Information Technology as a career.

Henry Varney is the Chief Operating Officer of Skipton Building Society. He is responsible for IT, Digital, Information Security, Operations and Business Change at the Society. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Skipton Group. A Chartered Accountant, he joined Skipton in 2006 from KPMG, and has had a variety of roles, across IT, Operations and Audit within the Group.