Justin is the acting 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.

John oversees Jade's Innovation and Collaboration programmes. He's at the sharp end of product development, plus client and partner engagements. John - a futurist - has held a variety of technical and management roles during his time at Jade. He is a budding aviator, rides fast motorcycles, and is a history buff.

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 is one of New Zealand’s most experienced company directors and chairpersons, with over 25 years in governance roles across a range of sectors. She is currently chairperson of Callaghan Innovation, New Zealand Qualifications Authority, ECL Group, Jacobsen Pacific, Jade Software Corporation, and Lincoln Agritech Hub, and director of Sky City Entertainment Group and Restaurant Brands. She is a Companion of the NZ Royal Society, and a Fellow of the Institute of Directors. Her experience spans corporate governance, commercial investment, mergers and acquisitions, change strategies, international marketing, digital disruption, plus harnessing science and technology for business growth.

Julia Raue is an Independent Director for Z Energy Limited, The Warehouse Group, Southern Cross Medical Care Society, Southern Cross Healthcare Limited, and Southern Cross Pet Insurance Limited; Chair of the NZ Rugby Appointments & Remuneration Committee, and a Trustee of Global Women New Zealand.
Julia has extensive experience in strategic business transformation in digital, customer, data and people, across the airline, telecommunications, local government and not-for-profit sectors.
Julia has delivered a number of global award-winning innovative customer-facing products and services. Previously Julia was the Chief Information Officer of Air New Zealand (2007-2015) and was awarded the New Zealand CIO of the Year award in 2009. Julia is a Chartered member of the NZ Institute of Directors, a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and a member of Global Women New Zealand. Passionate about growing the number of females working in technology, Julia works with a number of institutions to drive awareness of Information Technology as a career.

Henry is the Chief Operating Officer for Skipton Building Society, the fourth largest UK Building Society, which provides savings, mortgages, and financial advice to one million customers. He is a member of their Executive Committee and is responsible for Strategic Change, Operations, and IT, as well as being responsible for two mortgage-related subsidiaries. In addition, he is a Non-Executive Director of Jade Software Corporation.