HAMISH MEXTED

BUSINESS FOUNDER & LEADER - ACCOUNTANT - DAD 

Hamish grew up in a family of self-employed professionals talking about cash flow, staffing, sales and profitability. He graduated from university in 2005 after completing a BA and BCA, with first-class honours in Accounting. Along the way, Hamish spent some time in a Big-4 accounting firm, which frankly, he hated (but gained some valuable insights) before he joined a boutique tax advisory firm. This is where he learnt the 'ropes' and completed his Chartered Accounting qualification providing specialist tax structuring and tax audit advice – primarily to other Chartered Accountants and Lawyers.  He realised there was more to life than tax and went off to France – teaching English and travelling. On return to NZ, he founded Convex Accounting in 2011 to help people like his family, and at the same time, challenge the stereotype of the dull, cardigan-wearing accountant.

He was born and bred in Wellington, a descendant of Ngāti Toa, grew up in Porirua and went to school in the Hutt.  Mainly defined by three kids, wife, and dog, when he is not at work he is spending time with his family (twin boys and a girl), playing the drums (hopelessly), or trying to get the kids to flip the record over so he doesn't need to get off the couch.

BRAD EISENHUTH

CHANGE & BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION - ORG CULTURE - BUSINESS ADVISORY PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT 

Brad is the Founder and CEO of the award-winning team at The Outperformer, a management consultancy offering strategic business change business advisory services to a diverse range of large corporates and teams. Brad has worked with the accounting and finance profession for 15 years and developed the Business Advisory Accelerator concept for CA ANZ, which was created around best-practice frameworks and models that are applied in his practice by his team and leading advisory firms.

Brad’s work has spanned across large scape organisations such as Bacardi, Woolworths, University of Sydney, Novo Nordisk, NEXTDC, Reckitt Benkiser, Sanofi, Wespace and many others, as well as many successful SME organisations. He has featured in Australian Finance Review, Sydney Morning Herald, Accountants Daily, CFO University, Acuity and many other publications on the future of work, automation, finance and accounting, and business culture.