Our people are the winning ingredients in our recipe for success

Rebecca is one of the founders members of Fusion5.

With over 25 years of experience in business and application software, including senior roles with IBM, Coopers & Lybrand, Ernst & Young and CapGemini, Rebecca has played an integral role in building Fusion5 into a world-class company.

Extremely adaptable, Rebecca operates from the position of always doing what’s right for the customer and for the business.

Rebecca holds a BA and BCom from Otago University. A competitive swimmer (at a national level), she’s no stranger to challenges. Her approach to any obstacle is to knock them off one-by-one, focus on competencies and skills, and then put yourself out there again to find more success.

'Building Fusion5 to the company we are today has been fantastic; we love what we do. We have an amazing team who love achieving great results for our customers.’

Sven is the Chief Executive Officer of Fusion5. With more than 15 years’ experience in delivering customer management solutions, Sven brings specialist knowledge, expertise and commitment to the team. 

He is passionate about assisting organisations to improve efficiency, create exceptional customer experiences and streamline business processes through leveraging customer-centric concepts and technology.  

Sven is recognised for his visionary, innovative and strategic approach to overcoming business challenges.

‘I’m always motivated by the opportunity to make a real difference to our customers' businesses. Our challenge is to use innovation and technology to enable them to thrive in the digital world.'

Kristy is the Chief Microsoft Officer responsible for Fusion5’s CRM and SharePoint businesses within New Zealand.

Backed by decades of real-word experience working with CRM solutions, Kristy ensures the successful implementation of Fusion5’s CRX solutions within large, complex corporate environments. For example, she led the implementation of Dynamics CRM for Lincoln University in 2015 — a project for which Fusion5 was awarded Microsoft’s CRM Partner of the Year.

An innovative and highly competent business executive, Kristy has led teams for over 20 years. She established our Gold-Certified Dynamics CRM practice and played a key role in growing it into the successful, dynamic and multi-award winning business it is today.  

Kristy holds an Associate Diploma in Business Management, has sat a plethora of short-courses including Change Management at Auckland University’s Business School and the Blanchard Group’s Situational Leadership, as well as being a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist.

'Unlike transactional systems, CRX solutions have the ability to truly transform your business, putting you closer to your customer than ever before. Remember, if you don’t take the time to truly understand your customer and their needs, your competitors will!'

Becky is the Chief Operating Officer for Fusion5. She oversees Fusion5’s consulting services and ensures they are meeting scope, time, budget and quality expectations. She also provides team members with leadership, guidance and mentoring.

Backed by 20+ years’ experience building and managing highly successful delivery, sales, and marketing teams in consulting and professional services businesses. Her work spans multiple industries and business processes, across multiple product sets including software development, ERP, SRP, business intelligence and CRM.

Becky has a real passion for building high-performance teams and delivering benefits to businesses. She is a visionary leader who always has an eye to the future.

She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Government from California State University and an Executive Certificate of Management from Henley Business School.

'For me, client relationships come first. I'm always looking for opportunities to deliver more benefits to our clients in the most effective way. I love hearing from happy clients and knowing we made a positive difference to their business.'

Richard is a non-Executive Director of Fusion5 and leads our ERP and Managed Services teams in New Zealand. Richard brings over 25 years development, integration, enterprise architecture and management experience in both large corporate and government sectors within New Zealand and overseas.  

Richard is 100% service delivery focused and motivated by delivering successful outcomes for customers.

It’s amazing and exciting to see how many customers in New Zealand are adopting new technologies and embarking on digital strategies that see them challenge the traditional.

Shannon is the Director of JDE, Integration and Innovation for Australia and New Zealand. He predominantly works across five main areas: Internet of Things (IoT), social media, cloud, enterprise mobility and big data.

Shannon is recognised as an industry leader in enterprise mobility, cloud and analytics for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). He’s also a JD Edwards expert, with over 20 years’ experience in building and designing JDE sites. He holds a certification in Amazon Web Services architecture, which underpins many of his modern design techniques, especially when it comes to integration and ERP.

Passionate about sharing knowledge, Shannon is an avid blogger. He enjoys troubleshooting problems and recording his findings on his blog. He strives towards standardised, cost-effective innovation to help businesses make IT work for them, not the other way around.

'I don’t like innovation for the sake of innovation. I like to see the best and latest technologies embraced by users because they make a real difference. Whether that’s measured by improvements in safety, usability or profit – it doesn't matter – as long as it’s measured. When we can measure what innovation delivers, then we can innovate with confidence.'

In her role as the Director of HCM and Jemini, Vickie leads our Trans-Tasman team who are responsible for the implementation and ongoing support of our HRIS solutions. Vickie is passionate about delivering successful projects and ensuring our customers achieve their strategic and commercial outcomes.

Having joined Fusion5 in 2006, Vickie has extensive experience implementing, supporting, and providing business critical People Systems for our customers. As well as her experience within Fusion5, Vickie’s prior roles across different industries in both the payroll and HR space provided a solid foundation of practical business experiences. This ensures she can provide well rounded advice and assistance to our customers.

"I love working collaboratively with our customers to identify and deliver solutions that have a positive impact on their business. These solutions ultimately enable our customers’ ability to engage, manage, motivate and reward their people and this is extremely important in the modern workplace. "