The Journey
Accountant, Product Manager,
Co-Founder, Now AI-Native Builder
I started as a Chartered Accountant at Ernst & Young, not because I loved debits and credits, but because auditing let me study how businesses actually work. That curiosity pulled me into SaaS product management at Xero, where I discovered machine learning and led the teams building Xero's first customer-facing ML models. I combined all of it when I co-founded Cassia, an AI startup automating small business bookkeeping. Now I'm focused on what comes next: building with agentic AI and rethinking what product management looks like when the tools can do the work.
Speaker at Information Architecture Conference & UXNZ
2023Diploma in Te Reo Māori & Te Ao Māori
Te Wānanga o Raukawa · 2019Speaker at conferences and sales events
NZ, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, USAChartered Accountant
CA ANZ · Issued May 2012Victoria University of Wellington
BCA, Accountancy & Commercial Law · PGDip Professional Accountancy · 2004 — 2008