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The power of Davanti is in the strength of the team, below are the people who channel all that collaborative energy.

MEET OUR SENIOR TEAM

Loves helping clients and people achieve their goals. Avid Football and fitness fan and private Uber service to three very busy children.

John Bessey

John Bessey

Passionate about clients and working in high performing teams. Loves the outdoors, keen surfer and proud father to Matthew and Sophia.

Greg Brown

Greg Brown

Loves getting the job done (and done well) and creating lasting relationships along the way. Lives for balance, hanging out at the beach, spending time with family and shooting the breeze with friends over a good bubbles.

Andrea Meredith

Andrea Meredith

Loves turning the devil in the detail into business solutions. Dedicated dad, enjoys a good pinot. Leads delivery for the Salesforce practice.

Gareth Reason

Gareth Reason

Passionate about outcomes – for clients and for the team. Mountain biker, skier, golfer, but not at the same time! Heads up Managed Services for Davanti, Trans Tasman.

Dougal Macdiarmid

Dougal Macdiarmid

CRM and HR systems implementation specialist, avid football fan and wannabe wine aficionado. Heads up Operations at Davanti.

Paul Whittaker

Paul Whittaker

Passionate about helping organisations use data to get closer to their customers. (Slow) runner and yogi, avid reader and podcast enthusiast. Loves travel and eating out.

Lena Jenkins

Lena Jenkins

Working mum who runs her life and ours via apps, spreadsheets and caffeine. Heads up Finance & Operations at Davanti Consulting.

Kris Bowie

Kris Bowie

Former Olympian who now applies his competitive streak and commitment to excellence to technology solutions. Relishes solving complex business challenges during the week then morphs into a sideline supporter for his three sons during the weekend. Senior Architect for the Salesforce practice.

Brad Riley

Brad Riley

20+ year CRM veteran who put his head in the cloud 13 years ago and loves unravelling and solving complex business problems. Avid basketball fan who enjoys travelling and being the #1 fan of his wife and 3 kids.

Scott Sullivan

Scott Sullivan

Loves a technical integration challenge, with cloud platforms offering yet another twist on the fun. Other loves include family and friends, motorbiking and trail running.

Iain Falconer

Iain Falconer

To meet the rest of the team, click through to the Davanti LinkedIn site and connect with us.

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OUR STORY

We started out to build a business to accelerate change in New Zealand organisations by challenging the status quo.

Then, with visionary people, great partnerships and a healthy dose of innovation we changed the business consulting market for good.

For the first time, New Zealand organisations were set free from the boilerplate solutions and grey suits promising deliverables, process and lots of big documents that meant little in the real world.

Now, organisations enjoy not only the result but the entire process – which gets to the successful outcome quicker and better.

Davanti is more than just our name, it is our brand, what we stood for then, and what we stand for today.

Davanti means staying ahead.

It’s about changing organisations for the better.

Join Us

Exceptional talent thrives here, enabling great people to succeed is at the core of who we are.