speakers
Josh Bronkhorst
General Manager, Mortgage Link:
An experienced and innovative leader with a professional business focus within the New Zealand Insurance industry.
Extensive Financial Services experience across all aspects of the business within New Zealand and abroad, now utilised to deliver to our Licencees and clients a first class service.
Nigel Dalton
In the course of Nigel Dalton’s 35-year career as a Social Scientist, technologist, evangelist, inventor, startup-tragic and corporate executive, the two circles of a Venn diagram that represented ‘business’ and ‘technology’ in the 20th century have now merged to become one in the 21st century. The arrival of the web in the late 1990s greatly accelerated that trend – customers could now buy from anywhere in the world, armed with more information than your very best salesperson. Mastering technology became mandatory.
Working as a professional social scientist for global business-technology consulting firm ThoughtWorks, it is Nigel’s job to equip organisations with the tools and thinking that can accelerate them to web speed. He is currently writing a book SuperProductive, where he makes the case for starting that capability leap with better management, to promote resilience, invention and operational excellence.
Known as the ‘godfather of agile’ in Australasia, he now works extensively within the Lean Management community, which grew from Toyota’s methods of making workplaces healthy and productive.
Outside of work Nigel maintains a strong interest in the people who have not harvested the web’s benefits in the last two decades, through his work supporting charities like Orange Sky Laundry, and Australia’s Flying Robot School.
At RE/MAX Rally NZ Nigel will demystify and explain how the latest thinking in digital strategy and practice can easily be adopted all the way to the front-line of a neighbourhood real estate office team. His talk is titled ‘What can a trillion-dollar online bookstore teach a real estate agent in 2020?’
Ben Speedy
Ben is the New Zealand Country Manager, with accountability for the business performance of the New Zealand Division of CoreLogic International, the words largest property data and insight company.
Ben’s objectives for the NZ business include; CoreLogic NZ will continue to be the most trusted and respected property data and property insight company. Secondly, customers will choose CoreLogic as their preferred partner to enable more people to find acquire and protect the home they love. Lastly, CoreLogic will be a place of work where employees can do their best work and enjoy their time doing it.
Immediately prior to joining CoreLogic, Ben spent 12 years in senior leadership roles, including responsibilities for shared services as Chief Operating Offer, Business Transformation, Business Banking and Agribusiness. Ben also worked in the UK, providing him with valuable international experience.
Ben’s formal qualifications include a bachelor of applied science, majoring in rural valuation and a post graduate diploma in marketing. Outside of CoreLogic, Ben is a keen sportsman.
Vikas Verma
Vikas has been working with the Real Estate industry for a good part of the 14 years of his time at NZME.
Whilst continuing to lead the Real Estate business for NZME, he has been key in the development and delivery of the OneRoof platform in the New Zealand market. Vikas works closely with the entire OneRoof team including product development, marketing and acquisition, Editorial and many more with a view to keep evolving OneRoof into a world class property platform – it was most recently awarded - the IAB NZ Digital Start-up of the Year and Deloitte’s Best Digital Venture across Australasia.
MAX TALKS
BEN KLOPPERS
Ben and Nola moved with their 2 young children to New Zealand from Zimbabwe over 17 years ago after leaving the turmoil in Zimbabwe where they were farming. They have lived in the Matakana and Warkworth area for the past 16 years after moving to the area in 2001 to begin their career in Real Estate in an area where they knew 1 person! They are still going 16 years later in an area and industry they are both extremely passionate about! Over the 16 years, Ben has achieved National Auctioneer of the Year 3 years in a row at Harveys where he worked for 9 years, before moving to Bayleys in Warkworth for 5 years. Constantly in the top 10% of agents for those companies and achieving Number 1 team for RE/MAX New Zealand in their first year with RE/MAX and their office came 4th. With this in mind they have now teamed up with RE/MAX, the biggest real estate company in the world, and really look forward to being able to offer their clients all the systems, processes and reach that is offered by a Company of this size. They continue to be actively involved in the community through their sports and multiple fundraising events throughout the area. In the past 14 years, they have been involved in raising funds or sponsoring The Warkworth Golf Club, Matakana Primary School, Mahurangi College and other worthy causes such as the Warkworth Hospice, New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation and Springboard.
gEMMA rOWLINSON
It’s been 15 years since Gemma departed the UK, to start a new life here in NZ with her husband Anthony. It was then her Real Estate journey began, as she took on the role as a PA to a top agent in Milford on the North Shore of Auckland.
A year on, Gemma, a very passionate netballer, secured her dream role a position with Netball New Zealand where she worked from 2006 to 2009 before moving to Auckland Netball in 2010 leaving to have her second daughter Mia, in 2014.
However, when returning to the work force from maternity leave, Gemma chose an administration role back in 'Real Estate' where she's always felt she belonged. Gemma chose to work with RE/MAX in Franklin, where she's lived for many years.
Gemma completed her real estate salespersons license soon after joining RE/MAX, to gain a greater insight into the industry and the role of the agents, she supported.
However, her studies whetted her appetite for real estate sales and continued on as a PA to RE/MAX NZ's high ranking residential agent Lisa Walden, her immediate goals were to support and build experience.
A year later, Gemma stepped into sales and has been a Licensed salesperson for almost a year, successfully selling property in her home town Pokeno and surrounding areas.
"Pokeno has a wonderful community spirit, and it's really great to be out there meeting our local residents and their families".
Gemma is extremely passionate and 100% dedicated to her work. She is available to chat anytime about your real estate needs.
sHANNON rYAN
With more than a decade's experience in the industry, I understand real estate clients need an agent with the integrity, expertise, motivation and know-how to achieve the best possible outcome for them.
Coupled with my thirst for a challenge and genuine passion for the job, I have helped countless people from all backgrounds, with varying situations and circumstances, realise their home-ownership dreams.
No two days are ever the same in real estate, and every client comes from different wants and needs. Problem solving is my specialty, and with the nature of real estate, you need someone with this skill set working for you. I value the vendors and purchasers who have entrusted me to help them succeed in making their real estate dreams come true.
MORRIS SHORT
Morris has worked in both commercial and residential real estate, on and off since the mid 1980's. His preference is for residential sales as they allow him more time to get to know clients, understand their needs then deliver meaningful results. Coming from years of hospitality trade, Morris knows what it takes to deliver great service and transactions that deliver win:win's for all parties.
Morris’ primary role at RE/MAX Xtra is to train, develop, mentor and recruit outstanding real estate agents, though he does still find time to list and sell properties all over NSW, as recent sales in Port Stephens and Lithgow would attest.
Morris helped establish what was then the Australian Yachting Federation's training scheme in 1980 and was one of the first inductees into an Australian "train the trainer" course. Ancient history aside, Morris thrives in training people in RE/MAX's Momentum systems, mentoring them to become intentional and protective in their day to day business and providing the key accountabilities to help them grow their businesses.
Morris and his wife Melissa both believe that by coaching and assisting people to become better on a daily basis, allows everyone involved to grow their business exponentially, after all at RE/MAX Xtra is all about “Our People. Our Passion”.