Amanda works in our Auckland office as an ICT permanent recruitment consultant. Amanda has over 20 years experience in the ICT recruitment industry in New Zealand and Asia. Her roles have included Consulting, Client Management, Team Leadership and General Management for large multinational recruitment organisations.  

Amanda's career highlights have included managing start up recruitment operations, building and developing strong teams and customer relationships, and the design and implementation of best practise recruitment solutions. Amanda particularly enjoys client and candidate relationship development and management, thrives on people interaction and is committed to delivering service excellence and ensuring a ‘win win' in her business partnerships.

Email: amanda.vanryn@beyond.co.nz

Angelina provides contracts coordination and administration support to the busy Wellington Recruitment teams, joining Beyond in early 2010 bringing with her many years experience in business support across many different industries.

When not at work she enjoys spending time with her family and along with being an avid reader, she is a bit of a movie buff. 

Email: angelina.benson@beyond.co.nz

Anita joined the Beyond IT Contracting team in August 2003 and is one of our most senior recruitment consultants. Her industry and market knowledge combined with an exceptional contact network is a valuable resource for clients and contractors alike.

Email: anita.matthews@beyond.co.nz

Basil has a wealth of recruitment experience spanning 11 years in the industry across Australia and New Zealand. Basil's experience as a professional recruiter commenced in 1997 with one of the world's largest recruitment practices specialising in the sourcing of contract financial executive staff.

The last six years have seen Basil deliver to a wide variety of contract specifications to clients across the public and private sectors in the Executive Leasing arena. Typical assignments have ranged from interim management and general management roles programme and project management, business analysis, change and transition management, strategic and operational HR and policy based roles across the Government sector.

Email: basil.varouhas@beyond.co.nz

Ben is very well-connected in the New Zealand recruitment industry having been involved in the Wellington and Auckland markets for over 12 years and is an experienced, successful recruiter and business manager.  Ben is our Wellington General Manager, who also focuses on recruitment of senior level roles, bid management and marketing at Beyond.  Ben also manages some of our large key accounts and is a Director of the company.

Email: ben.pearson@beyond.co.nz

Carole joined Beyond early 2010 as a Resource Manager in the Wellington IT Contract team. Carole has over three years recruitment experience working within the Wellington market and has a wealth of knowledge of and expertise in finding contractors new assignments.

Prior to her recruitment career Carole worked in both the banking and advertising industries where she developed strong customer service skills and a solid business understanding.

Email: carole.evans@beyond.co.nz

Carren joins our Auckland Office as Manager of the Auckland Business Support team.

Carren has over 15 years experience in the professional sales arena. Having an extensive background in Recruitment, Sales and Marketing. Facilitating networking groups for outplacement programmes and winning and retaining large corporate accounts.  Carren's recruitment experience covers a broad range of roles in both Business support , Sales and Marketing and Recruit to Recruit.

Carren contributes her success to her team approach, commitment and relationship management.

Email: carren.walker-raos@beyond.co.nz

Chris is a commerce graduate from Otago University, who has most recently been studying towards a Master of Entrepreneurship.

He works in the Auckland ICT Contracting team, with a keen desire to provide a quality experience to clients and contractors.  Chris looks at solutions and how these can be applied.

On a personal level, Chris is an ardent soccer fan and has represented Otago at under 21 level. He has lived in Wellington, Auckland and Dunedin as well as a brief time in Spain.

Email: chris.lacey@beyond.co.nz

Claire is one the Candidate Managers based in our Wellington Business Support team.  Claire has worked in the Business Support Recruitment industry for over 7 years in candidate management and consulting roles for a large global provider.

Now returning to our industry from a short career break following the birth of her lovely daughter, Claire combines incredible market knowledge with intuitive candidate matching skills and a wicked sense of humour!

Email: claire.ewens@beyond.co.nz

Clare has been with the company since its inception in July 2003. Clare is our Billing and Credit Control Manager working closely with contractors and clients in the billing of clients, contractor payments and all aspects of the finance team. She works closely with contractors and clients ensuring a smooth billing process and payment cycle.

Email: clare.lewis@beyond.co.nz

Clare joins Beyond from having worked for a leading Global Recruitment Company. Clare has 15 years expertise working within Accounting & Finance, Business Support, and Professional Services sectors as a Recruitment Specialist. Clare has worked on a number of high volume, short and long term projects across a variety of sectors over the years ensuring a successful outcome for both client and candidate. 

Clare's expertise encompasses a wealth of knowledge and experience around tailored candidate attraction and sourcing strategies for both permanent and contracting solutions. Clare has also successfully mentored, trained and managed a team of Candidate Managers in the Auckland area both within the permanent and contracting areas. Clare prides herself on her passion and commitment to meeting her candidates and clients expectations through a truly consultative and personalised approach.

Email: clare.saunders@beyond.co.nz

Deidre is a Director of Beyond and has well over ten years recruitment consulting experience both within New Zealand and internationally including around eight years experience in ICT recruitment in the Auckland market.

With a strong customer service focus Deidre believes in building relationships with both clients and candidates alike and enjoys gaining an in-depth understanding of their requirements and being able to deliver to those. Deidre's current focus is the building of our Auckland contracting business.

Email: deidre.rennie@beyond.co.nz

Don is a well-connected recruiter in the Wellington IT industry and has been with Beyond since 2005. He has over 14 years experience working for some of the better established and high profile IT recruitment organisations in New Zealand.

Don has considerable experience recruiting at all levels up to senior management and through the full range of technical disciplines and specialist roles within the IT industry. His experience includes recruiting for large corporate organisations, international and local vendors as well as major public sector groups. At Beyond, Don specialises in IT contracting and looks after several of our largest corporate and government clients.

Email: don.stantiall@beyond.co.nz

Donna joined the Beyond team in 2007 in the role of Accounts/Contractor Billing. Donna has worked in the recruitment industry in Melbourne, Auckland and Wellington since 1992. Donna works closely with contractors ensuring a smooth billing process and payment cycle. 

Email: donna.learmonth@beyond.co.nz

Email: elizabeth.francis@beyond.co.nz

Emma is one of our Resource Managers in the Wellington IT contracting team and manages a pool of experienced professionals looking for their next assignment. Her key skills include relationship management, communication and strategic thinking.

Emma’s focus is to minimise the time her contractors are between assignments and that they all receive the attention and service they deserve. Emma has a strong background working extensively in the Wellington Government and not for profit sectors.

Email: emma.hodgson@beyond.co.nz

Emma is our Auckland Candidate Manager in the Beyond Business Support team – specialising in Temporary and Permanent recruitment.  Emma’s focus it to provide quality temporary and permanent professional candidates for our Auckland roles.  Prior to joining Beyond, Emma was a recruitment consultant for an international recruitment company and placed candidates in a variety of roles across Call Centre and Administration. Having worked in the recruitment industry for 6 years, Emma brings invaluable skills and knowledge to the Beyond team. Emma's positive, energetic and "can-do" approach is reflected in the support she provides as well as ensuring a welcoming experience to our candidates

Email: emma.wadsley@beyond.co.nz

Fiona is one of the Candidate Managers based in our Wellington Business Support team.  She prides herself on her ability to identify talent and match candidates to great jobs.  Prior to joining Beyond, Fiona has worked in the recruitment industry over the past five years in Consultant and Candidate Manager Roles. Fiona builds and maintains strong relationships with our candidates and is known to be welcoming and puts her candidates at ease. 

Email: fiona.obrien@beyond.co.nz

Freeman holds the position of Accounts Clerk at Beyond within the Finance team. He completed his BCA Degree at Victoria University of Wellington in 2006 majoring in Accounting. He is very passionate about accountancy and his new role at Beyond.

In his leisure time, Freeman enjoys playing sports, especially Kung Fu and Taekwondo.

Email: freeman.tong@beyond.co.nz

Harry is a Director of Beyond and manages our corporate and financial operations. He has a broad business background and has in depth knowledge of contracting and recruitment in the technology sector. Harry has other business interests in the security and tourism sectors and is also Chief Executive of Beyond's sister company Starfish Consulting.

Email: harry.hall@beyond.co.nz

Hugh is the Client Relationship Manager for Beyond.

Hugh is a highly experienced sales professional, executive recruitment consultant, manager and business owner with over 16 years experience in recruitment. Prior to that worked for 9 years in sales in the IT industry. Over the past 16 years he has undertaken executive level recruitment assignments and managed and owned several recruitment companies servicing clients in Wellington and Auckland. He has held leadership roles with The Doughty Group, Candle Recruitment, LaceyLee and Hudson Recruitment.

He is widely known and respected throughout this sector of the market and is passionate about creating service companies that deliver high quality human resource services and strategic value to customers.

Email: hugh.riley@beyond.co.nz

James specialises in Accounting and Finance and Professional Services recruitment in our Auckland office, James is focussed on identifying the “right” talent for Businesses and Organisations for both permanent and contracting positions.

James has worked in the recruitment industry in the UK and New Zealand since 2001.  He has extensive recruitment experience in multi-disciplined sectors.

In his spare time he likes to explore the culinary side of Gordon Ramsay along with unwinding on two wheels in the off-road direction.

Email: james.lloyd@beyond.co.nz

James is a Client Manager at Beyond and has recently joined us after spending the last 2.5 years in the UK where he worked for a leading IT Search Consultancy. He has 8 years recruitment experience and has built divisions for a Global Recruitment Consultancy in this time both here in NZ and the UK. James has worked extensively with leading CIO's and IT Directors in forming partnerships to understand their recruitment needs, so as to aid him to provide a first rate delivery service. James prides himself on understanding that while a candidate may have the technical skills to do a specific job, it is also imperative to understand the culture and environment of where they are to be placed.

Email: james.terry@beyond.co.nz

Jane is currently employed by Beyond as Wellington Manager of Business Support and Contact Centre recruitment.  Managing teams of recruitment specialists in Wellington and Auckland. Jane also delivers temporary and permanent recruitment solutions to her clients in Wellington.

Jane’s recruitment history spans over a decade, 2 continents and RPO, In-house and Agency settings. Starting her recruitment career in 1997 with a national airline in the UK, Jane immigrated to New Zealand in 1999, where she has held a variety of Business Support and Contact Centre recruitment roles and since 2004 in a senior leadership capacity. Jane has a reputation for placing the highest value on her relationships with clients and matching her candidates to the very best roles.

Email: jane.reddiex@beyond.co.nz

Jo works in the Wellington IT Contract team as Team Leader, Resource Managers. Aside from her team leading responsibilities Jo acts as a main point of contact for people seeking contract work in the greater Wellington region. Jo has a background in both recruiting, HR and EA for some large and well known multi-national IT vendors. Jo is also studying towards a Diploma in Business Studies, Human Resources.

Email: jo.allen@beyond.co.nz

Jo gained over seven years’ experience in banking, administrative and account management roles before moving into a recruitment position in the very competitive UK market.  Having relocated to New Zealand on a permanent basis, Jo brings the skills she gained at Park House Recruitment (UK) and Strategy Recruitment (Wellington) to Beyond, along with a strong appreciation of selecting the right candidates and turnaround times in the temporary administration market.

Email: jo.carvey@beyond.co.nz

John Lacey is Chairman of Beyond and is primarily responsible for driving overall company strategy and governance. John has worked for over 20 years in senior leadership and directorship roles in the recruitment, consulting and services industries. He has an in depth understanding of the NZ business scene. Outside of work, John's interest include jogging and fishing (a recent convert) and spending time with his family. He also has a Labrador named Ruby and a mischievous Bulldog named Reggie.

Email: john.lacey@beyond.co.nz

Jonathan is a Client Manager in our Wellington based ICT permanent recruitment team. He comes with over 15 years sales and recruitment experience in both the UK and NZ job markets. Since arriving in NZ in 2005, Jonathan has managed to develop a strong network of clients and candidates in Wellington’s private and public sectors and has a particularly good knowledge of NZ’s telco business sector. He describes his style as a hardworking passionate sales professional with strong morals and excellent relationship management skills.

Outside work Jonathan is a keen sports fan and supporter of Wellington’s local sports teams including the Wellington Phoenix.

Email: jonathan.hay@beyond.co.nz

Karen is the Receptionist for our busy Wellington Office and brings over 10 years experience co-ordinating front office activities.  She has the motivated and mature approach needed to run a well organised corporate reception while still building rapport with our candidates and clients.

Email: karen.marshall@beyond.co.nz

Kylie is our Team Manager, Shared Services. Her team provides operational business support, front of house and looks after the administration requirements of the recruitment teams across all of our Business disciplines.

With a substantial background in providing high quality business support, she has held previous roles in the Financial Sector, Health Services & Legal environment, which has allowed her to develop strong business relationships across a number of different business environments.  She has recently completed extramural legal studies to gain her Legal Executive qualification.

Email: kylie.smeaton@beyond.co.nz

Based in our Auckland office, Lee-Anne is a Client Manager - ICT for Beyond Contracting. Lee-Anne started her career in the technical IT arena as a software developer and implementation consultant; and she then moved into ICT recruitment and contracting, where she has remained for 12 years.

With a strong understanding of the nature and business of ICT, Lee-Anne has an excellent track record of success in building long-term partnerships with clients and contractors, and being solution focused in all of her interactions. She is committed to the universal principles of success - delivering a high quality service and making every conversation count.

She has an MA in Psychology, loves Harley-Davidsons and the Kiwi sunshine.

Email: lee-anne.thomson@beyond.co.nz

Liza is a Director of Beyond and holds the position of Chief Executive Beyond Services.  Liza has over 25 years business experience encompassing a successful career in General Business Management, Human Resources and Recruitment.

Liza's expertise includes recruiting at Senior Management levels across the disciplines of General Management in Accounting and Finance Auckland across all sectors and disciplines.  As an experienced business leader she understands the importance of sourcing, placing and retaining good talent in an ever-tightening talent market and economic shifts.

With a strong strategic and analytical approach Liza works closely with her clients to offer tailored solutions that will meet their unique recruitment requirements.  Equally, Liza places a high value on job seekers, taking ownership to coach them in achieving their career aspirations.

Liza has a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Law and a Postgraduate business diploma in Human Resources and Training and Development.

Email: liza.viz@beyond.co.nz

Lusi is Beyond's dedicated Candidate Manager for permanent ICT roles and candidates. Lusi has had almost 4 years experience in the recruitment sector, including in-house roles within the recruitment coordination and L&D space. 

Over the past 2.5 years Lusi has been in a Resource Management/Para Consultant role spanning technology and executive recruitment. Lusi has a Bachelor of Commerce and Administration with a double major in Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations and Management.

If you are looking for your next permanent ICT role, Lusi is certainly the best person for you to get in touch with. Lusi is also the captain of Beyond's indoor netball team and is quite the gun on court!

Email: lusi.crawford@beyond.co.nz

Lynn is a Recruitment Specialist in our Auckland Accounting, Finance and Professional Services Team. Lynn's career began as a secondary school teacher before moving into sales and recruitment over 15 years ago. Lynn has been a top performer for both boutique and multinational recruitment companies and prides herself on her tenacity, work ethic and professionalism. Lynn has worked in a variety of sectors across a wide range of disciplines including office support, finance, generalist recruitment and IT. Lynn has also been highly successful in project managing large recruitment campaigns for contact centres and sales forces whilst maintaining a hands on approach with her clients. Lynn's strong performances are based on a passion for recruitment and in providing a service to her clients and candidates second to none.

Email: lynn.miller@beyond.co.nz

Mandy has recently joined Beyond Recruitment as a Temp Recruitment Specialist in the Business Support Team. Mandy has a number of years in Temp recruitment, recruiting a variety of roles from office support, purchasing, logistics up to assistant accountant level.

She is very passionate about candidate care and client relationships. She believes building long term relationships with clients and candidates is key to the success of building a great business.

“My greatest success is to be myself and enjoy the ride and all the opportunities I get along the way”.

Email: mandy.noble@beyond.co.nz

Margaret provides Team Coordination and Administration support to our very busy Wellington Business Support Team. Boasting 13 years of supporting recruitment teams we would be hard pushed to find anyone with more experience in our industry than Marge!   

Outside of work, Margaret enjoys assisting her daughter's gym club with fund raising and organising their yearly Nationals trip, along with cooking, gardening and renovating.

Email: margaret.swaneveld@beyond.co.nz

Matt specialises in Accounting and Finance recruitment in our Auckland office and is focussed on locating talent for the Chartered Accounting sector.

A Qualified NZ Chartered Accountant with eight years accounting and auditing experience working across NZ, UK and Cayman Islands, Matt seeks to provide his clients with a leading level of service combining his strengths of holding a good understanding of the role of accountants and his passion to ensure top service delivery. Matt is dedicated to providing a totally professional level of service, committed to exceeding his client expectations, and delivering on promises, every time.

Outside of helping his clients, Matt enjoys hitting the surf and devouring good seafood.

Email: matthew.shortt@beyond.co.nz

Maurice has over 20 years of experience in the technology sector in the UK, the Netherlands and New Zealand. Over that time, he has worked in management consulting and senior sales and professional services roles for ICT vendors.

Maurice contributes his experience in the successful delivery of software development and enterprise integration projects adding specialist knowledge value in his role as a Client Manager in the ICT Contracting team.

In his spare time Maurice likes to spend time hiking or kayaking – or simply spending time with his partner at his lifestyle block south of Auckland.

Email: maurice.slingerland@beyond.co.nz

Mhairi is one of our senior recruitment consultants in the IT permanent team in Wellington. Mhairi's client base includes some of our largest key clients across the public and private sector. Mhairi has many years recruitment experience and an earlier career working in sales and account management for a global IT vendor. 

Email: mhairi.kerr@beyond.co.nz

Mike is our lead consultant in the national Engineering and Operations division at Beyond, specialising in the recruitment of management personnel in the Engineering, Design, Construction, Property and Facilities Management industries. Having previously worked in the Wellington market for a large worldwide professional recruitment company for 5 years, Mike has an excellent knowledge of the Engineering and Construction market. With proven ability to manage large scale recruitment campaigns for key clients, he is the go to person for any technical recruitment services.

Email: mike.westbury@beyond.co.nz

Nadine is our Team Co-ordinator for the Accounting and Finance Team in Auckland. Her background includes business support and event management for a range of NZ-based technology companies. Nadine has recently spent six months travelling in South Africa and a year and a half in the UK where she did various temp assignments.

Email: nadine.kellett@beyond.co.nz

Peter is a Client Manager in our Accounting & Finance Team in Wellington. He came from a leading UK-owned recruitment agency based in Wellington, which specialised in international financial recruitment. He is our main point of contact for Accounting & Finance candidates. Peter is passionate about getting to know our candidates, building a relationship with them and helping them secure the right role for their next career move.

Peter completed his Degree at Victoria University majoring in Human Resource Management, Commercial Law and International Business.

Email: peter.campbell@beyond.co.nz

Peter joined the Beyond finance team in Wellington as Accountant in 2007. He absolutely believes he was meant to be a "Beanie" and intends sticking with the profession for life. Peter offers strong financial accounting experience to the business, having spent 20 years plus in numerous enjoyable roles through his career.

His family is his true love, and he spends as much time as possible with them, in between daily bicycle commutes.

Email: peter.lucock@beyond.co.nz

Riyaz is a senior recruitment consultant in our IT Contracting team and has around five years experience in IT recruitment and IT & T sales roles based in Wellington. His previous IT recruitment role was for large Fortune 500 Silicon Valley IT vendor clients and start ups in Tokyo, Japan, where he placed all levels of positions from software developers to country managers. Riyaz works with several of our largest clients and is a well-connected contract recruiter in the Wellington market.

Email: riyaz.hussain@beyond.co.nz

Rob has a wealth of executive recruitment experience to having spent nine years in the industry. Rob specialises in Human Resources and Senior Management roles, supplying quality candidates for both Private and Public sectors. He also works on senior Accounting and Finance roles.

Prior to recruitment Rob has spent 18 years in the business community working in Telecommunications, Banking and Primary Industry sectors in both New Zealand and UK.

Email: robert.butler@beyond.co.nz

Sally has over 13 years industry specialisation experience in ICT recruitment consulting, predominantly in the Auckland market. Sally undertakes a Senior Client Manager role.  Sally focuses on senior sales, marketing and management functions as well as ERP and Supply Chain Consultants, presales, functional and technical consultants.  As a mature, intuitive and well-networked recruiter, Sally has a great reputation for accurate job-seeker and employer matching. Many of her clients and candidates are like rubber bands - they keep coming back, which is the ultimate accolade.

Relaxation for Sal is spent boating and fishing with her partner Steve, and also travel when time allows. She also spends time mentoring women.

Email: sally.jackson@beyond.co.nz

Scott is part of the Business Support Team at Beyond Services.  He specialises in temporary and permanent solutions, and has a diverse range of New Zealand recruitment experience.

After many years working as an Event Manager in the UK for high profile organisations and individuals, Scott returned to Wellington in 2002 and took on a role managing events at Parliament.

Scott has spent the last 3 years recruiting at high level in the high-activity hospitality sector.  He feels his success to date is due to an intuitive job-seeker to employer matching ability and an easy-going, friendly engagement style that has lead to many successful working relationships with clients and candidates alike. 

Email: scott.gillan@beyond.co.nz

Shane has 2 years experience as a specialist Legal recruiter built upon his experience as a practicing Solicitor with experience in employment law. This background and knowledge of the ins and outs of legal practice allows him to fully understand the requirements of employers and candidates alike.

Shane works at a national level across the entire spectrum of professional legal roles, from Partners, Consultants and Special Counsel to graduate and junior Solicitors. He has also recruited for in-house legal teams in the private and public sectors, from junior to senior level.

Shane prides himself on being able to understand business not only from a needs perspective but also from a strategic perspective. He has advised law firms in terms of partnership diversification, strategic development and general practice management. He takes this same approach with candidates, able to understand their needs and help them map out their career path.

Email: shane.burton@beyond.co.nz

Shane has spent 16 years in sales roles, building trust and rapport with his clients, and finding solutions to their business needs.  He has held positions in leading technology and business solutions companies in New Zealand and in the United Kingdom.

Shane has been with the Beyond team since May 2006 and is a Client Manager in our IT Contracting team.

Email: shane.r@beyond.co.nz

Simon is a Recruitment Specialist within our Business Support team in Wellington. He delivers temporary and permanent solutions to a diverse client portfolio covering both large and small organizations across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

Simon has a range of experience working across different sectors in Australasia and further abroad. Prior to joining Beyond, Simon spent several years with a global recruitment company as a consultant in the Wellington Business Support market. He also has industry experience working in London with a recruitment consultancy who partnered with some of the worlds largest companies.

An avid photographer, Simon has had photos published in numerous national and international magazines/publications.

Email: simon.coleman@beyond.co.nz

Steve works in and manages our Wellington IT Contract recruitment team. This large team is made up of Client Managers, Resource Managers, a Contractor Manager and Administrators

Steve has extensive recruitment experience within the Wellington market including managing a recruitment advertising agency.

Steve has worked in Wellington for over 14 years and has significant knowledge of both the private and public sectors.

Email: steve.willoughby@beyond.co.nz

Suzanne is a Client Manager in our Wellington-based IT permanent team and has been with us since 2007. Suzanne has more than 12 years IT/Telecommunications industry experience working in New Zealand and United Kingdom. 

Suzanne has excellent all round recruitment experience having worked within a major banks IT Project Office before becoming their internal Recruitment Consultant, which she maintained for more than three years. This gives her a strong business focus and an understanding client's requirements particularly in the banking/finance sector. She builds ongoing relationships with her clients and candidates and has a strong network of contacts that she can draw upon.

Email: suzanne.east@beyond.co.nz

Tenille manages our Professional Services team which covers Accounting & Finance, Executive Leasing, HR and Engineering & Technical Operations. She also manages our IT recruitment team and is one of our most experienced permanent recruiters delivering to a select number of our key clients. 

Tenille is one of the founding members of the Beyond Services business and has a wealth experience in the Wellington market having successfully recruited for some of Wellington's largest organisations in the Government, banking and IT sectors over the last seven years. 

With over nine years total recruitment experience, Tenille has built up a strong network of contacts throughout Wellington, proving to be a good person to know for both jobseekers and employers.

Email: tenille.emmett@beyond.co.nz

Tracey has more than nine years IT recruitment experience in Wellington and almost 20 years within the IT industry both here and in Australia. Tracey works with clients in Government, Banking, Telecommunications and the Vendor sectors.  Tracey joined the Beyond team in December 2005 as an IT Contracting specialist.

Outside of helping her clients find the right people for their contracts, Tracey is often seen flying about on her motorbike or waterskiing in the harbour.

Email: tracey.petrie@beyond.co.nz