Our Team

Kevin Parish

Kevin has helped more than a dozen NZ businesses establish operations in China as the founding CEO of PCNZ Shanghai.

He has been NZ’s Trade Commissioner in Hong Kong, CEO of a cross border ecommerce business, and CEO of two New Zealand primary sector co-operatives.

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Liam Corkery

Liam was previously New Zealand’s Trade Commissioner in Beijing and Director of the NZ Trade Office in Taiwan. He spent thirteen years living in Asia, speaks reasonable mandarin and has a Global Executive MBA from the University of Southern California and Shanghai Jiaotong University. .

He has been CEO of a technology start-up, NZ General Manager of a cross-border ecommerce brand, worked in venture capital and he is a Teaching Fellow in Auckland University’s MBA programme on the topic of Global Business. 

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Ron Butt

Ron was Comvita’s General Manager of Asia for fifteen years. Comvita is NZ’s largest manuka honey and natural products brand.

Ron was a member of the Industry Advisory Panel to New Zealand’s High Value Nutrition National Science Challenge and he has extensive experience developing premium brands, and managing Asian distribution channels.

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Andrew Harvey

Andrew has exported NZ and Australian primary products to a wide range of global markets. He is experienced in building full value chains from source to international consumer. He has established an offshore business and set up an industry association.

An area of specialty is high value live seafood exports to China, including for Fiordland Lobster Company and Ngai Tahu Seafood.  

Project Team

We maintain a wider network of partners across China, Australia and New Zealand that we engage on a project specific basis. Those partners have expertise in:

  • Cross-Border Governance

  • Government Relations and stakeholder engagement

  • Regulatory market access

  • Primary sector tradables

  • B2C consumer channels

  • B2B industrial

  • Software/AI

  • Brand and new product development and testing

  • Online marketing

  • PR and media

  • Venture capital and private equity

  • Human Resources

  • Legal and IP strategy

  • Regional economic development

Our Partnerships

We maintain partnerships in China that give us unique networks and unique capbilities. Some of those partnerships include:

  • China’s largest technology news media platform with a presence in China, Singapore and Japan.

  • China’s Largest Law Firm and strategy consultancy with over 100 offices spread across China and South East Asia

  • China’s 3rd Largest short-video digital marketing agency