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Meet the Atomic leadership team 👋
Jo Haanstra, CEO
With a passion for driving exponential growth, Jo helps build, scale, and grow companies. Having worked with a broad range of public and private sector organisations, Jo is a widely respected and influential leader in the NZ tech landscape.
Lauren Mellish, Head of Finance & Operations
Lauren is a driven and dynamic finance and operations professional, with a career spanning over a decade. She has a passion for risk management, business process improvement and system implementation.
Bradley Simpson, Partnership Director
Bradley has deep experience in SaaS companies, including Customer Success, Partnerships, Business Development, Education, and Customer Support. In his role as Partnership Director, Bradley is focussed on creating strong and mutually beneficial relationships with Atomic.io’s partners.
Ben Pujji, Chief Product Officer
Ben leads product strategy and development at Atomic, and helps our clients implement highly effective in-app messaging programmes with Atomic. With leadership experience in financial services, government, tech companies and creative services Ben brings deep domain knowledge to your business.
Meet our board of directors 👋
Alastair Grigg, Chairperson
Alastair was a founding staff member at accounting software company Xero, where he was Chief Operating Officer, then GM of the Ventures and Financial Web division. Prior to Xero, Alastair was Chief Information Officer at Air NZ and has been involved in a number of other technology businesses and startups. Alastair is now a Director, investor and advisor to several technology companies.
Rod Drury, Non-executive director
Rod Drury founded global small business accounting platform Xero leading it to a top performing $AU20B+ ASX100 company employing over 5000 people in 25+ locations. Rod remains as a shareholder and active in the business contributing to strategy as required. Having created a number of successful technology businesses, Rod has won a number of awards for his work.
Kathryn Apte, Non-executive director
Kathryn Apte is a highly accomplished marketing and communications professional, with an impressive educational background and extensive experience working for notable companies across different sectors. Throughout her career, Kathryn has held numerous senior-level marketing roles, including Global Head of Content Marketing for YouTube, Global Head of Marketing and Communications for Medium.com, and Global Director of Product Marketing for Consumers and Creators at Twitter.
Anna Curzon, Non-executive director
Anna has a wealth of experience in the tech and financial services sector, with more than 18 years at ASB Bank in senior leadership roles across Internet Banking, Marketing, Innovation and the Contact Centre, as well as multiple executive roles at Xero.
She was appointed to the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) by New Zealand’s Prime Minister in 2021, and today is Chair of the ABAC Economic Integration Working Group. She has also served on the New Zealand Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Group from 2018-2020, and in 2017 the global SaaS report named Anna one of the Top 25 women leaders in SaaS.
Anna advocates for diversity within the tech industry and is passionate about encouraging women and other underrepresented groups into STEM opportunities.
Mark Vivian, Non-executive director
Mark has been a partner with Movac for the past 15 years. In addition to governance roles on portfolio company boards, he’s responsible for fundraising and investor relations. Mark has a particular strength in strategy development and tactical execution, commercialisation, relationship management, team building, and fundraising.
