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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
Working mum who runs her life and ours via apps, spreadsheets and caffeine. Heads up Ops & Admin at Davanti Consulting.
Kris Bowie
Loves building strategies and solving problems. A life long learner with a passion for great design, cooking and sailing. Davanti Director.
Robert Carter
Passionate about NZ’s capital city, particularly its mountain biking, spending time with my wife and 2 daughters and connecting people for mutual benefit. Wellington based Davanti Director.
Matt Farrar
Thrives on complex problems and is focused and driven to get the right results. Loves spending time on the water. Davanti Director.
Justin Hamilton
Customer-centric business strategist. Collaborative team builder. Social football player. Leads Auckland Consulting practice.
Ray Liu
Loves turning the devil in the detail into business solutions. Dedicated dad, enjoys a good pinot. Leads delivery for the Salesforce practice.
Gareth Reason
'Passionate digital strategist with a love for creating change through technology and avid footie fan. Heads up Marketing Automation Practice.’
Colin Rebairo
CRM and HR systems implementation specialist, avid football fan and wannabe wine aficionado. Heads up the Salesforce Practice at Davanti.
Paul Whittaker
Driven to understand the social impact that design can have on our lives. Enthusiastic in work and life, with family at the heart of everything. Head of Design and Experience.
Viv Baartman
Sales challenger motivated by turning strategy into real business outcomes. Heads up Sales at Davanti when not exploring the world for new surf breaks.
Dom Pringle
Friendly Irishman, problem solver, and relationship builder. Family man with two talented children. Leads the Business Applications practice in Wellington.
Cormac O'Reilly
Wicked problem solver using collaborative design thinking to accelerate innovation and change. Recidivist Petrolhead. Itinerant Experience Design Strategist.
Eamon O'Rourke
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.