Activities, Events and Staff Movements
Auckland
In 2020 Hayes Knight joined the Nexia International network to provide clients with stronger national and international connections. In April 2021 the Auckland-based firm took that a step further and rebranded to Nexia New Zealand. To showcase the services offered by Nexia New Zealand offices in Auckland and Christchurch, the firms collectively launched a national website to support clients throughout New Zealand. The new website went live in May and both firms are now enjoying the benefits of working collaboratively; including a combined national LinkedIn page to share updates to a large audience of followers.
Christchurch
Our Christchurch office has recently appointed two new partners.
Nathan Breckell has become a partner after joining Nexia in 2019 as audit director. He continues to lead Nexia New Zealand’s national Audit & Assurance division in his new role.
Nathan’s twin brother, Aaron Breckell, has also joined the firm as a partner, working in Business Advisory. Aaron is Nexia’s 10th partner based in Christchurch, and with this appointment, the office now has one of the largest Business Advisory practices in the South Island.
Canberra
One of Canberra’s Audit Partners participated in this year’s Vinnies CEO Sleepout. Garry Murphy went through chilly overnight temperatures on June 17 to help raise money for vulnerable Australians doing it tough.
Garry has been participating in the sleepout for several years and believes the cause is more relevant than ever.
“COVID-19 has resulted in many challenges for individuals and families and highlighted how susceptible we are. Whether it be the result of losing a job, a relationship breakdown, domestic and family violence, mental illness, a failing business or other event, there is often a fine line between living comfortably and homelessness.” He said.
Sydney
The Ethnic Business Awards
Sydney are proud sponsors of The Ethnic Business Awards. The awards recognise the outstanding accomplishments of Migrant and Indigenous entrepreneurs. They highlight the contribution made to Australia by these people. We wish the best of luck to all of the nominees.
Milestone Anniversaries in Sydney
Our Sydney Office have celebrated a number of milestone staff anniversaries in recent months, including:
- Suzanne Capuano (26 years)
- Sean Urquhart (25 years)
- Anita Cohen and Kath Neal (24 years)
- Raelea Flower (23 years)
- Brett Hanger (22 years)
- Craig Wilford (18 years)
- Jackie Kim and Vishal Modi (16 years)
- Karina Canete, Andrew Luu, and Rob Mayberry (14 years)
- Anita Fan, Bob Lu, Stephanie Bush, Christine Atencia and Russell Reid (13 years)
- Maiqing Zhou (10 years).
Our Sydney office is excited to announce the addition of Katie Lin who has joined as a Partner in our Business Advisory division. Katie is one of Australia’s leading Employment Tax experts and has a strong reputation for delivering innovative solutions that help businesses navigate the legislative requirements of Superannuation, Payroll Tax, FBT and PAYG Withholding.New Business Advisory Partner
With over 25 years of experience, she joins us having previously lead the Employment taxes division at a Big 4 firm.
We offer Katie a very warm welcome from the team at Nexia Australia and look forward to sharing his technical expertise with our corporate client base. Her appointment takes the total number of Partners within our Sydney Office to 27.
Promotions
Following exceptional work from staff over the past financial year, our Sydney office congratulated the following staff members on promotions that came into effect July 2021;
- Nicholas Bruce – Supervisor, Business Advisory
- Byron Brickley – Supervisor, Business Advisory
- Kane Shanghari – Supervisor, Audit and Assurance
- Natalie Viney – Manager, Financial Services
- Darren Steedman – Associate Director, Audit and Assurance
- Karina Canete - Client Services Director, Business Advisory
- Rony Halim – Head of IT
- Erin Tanyag – Partner, Audit and Assurance
Celebrating our clients success
Our Sydney office were excited to see one of their clients, Mohit Sharma, founder of VBreathe being celebrated in the Australian Financial Review on 22nd February for his innovation.
Mohit was mentioned not only for his innovative product, an air purifier and detoxifier, which claims to rid the air of bacteria, mould and even viruses such as SARS-COV-2, which cause COVID-19, but also for winning a $100,000 grant as part of the NSW government’s R&D Innovation Districts Challenges & securing two major European distribution deals.
We are honoured to be able to support Mohit’s journey and company growth.
