Meet the Team

  • Liam Corkery

    Liam is a Teaching Fellow in the Auckland University MBA programme where he teaches on the topic of Global Success, and disruption in global value chains.

    He was previously New Zealand’s Trade Commissioner in Beijing and Director of the New Zealand Trade Office in Taiwan.

    He has worked on projects across China, India, the US and Africa. He has worked in venture capital and has been the CEO of a technolgy start-up.

  • 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 a New Zealand primary sector co-operative.

  • 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.

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