Our Team
Our team of globally experienced financial professionals are passionate about helping Kiwis achieve financial freedom. Our team came together to create Kernel as a response to our frustration with the failings we saw in New Zealand’s financial services industry, and the negative impact this was having on Kiwis’ financial futures.
Dean Anderson
Chief Executive
Stephen Upton
Chief Operating Officer
Catherine Emerson
Head of Marketing & Strategy
Sam Williams
Head of Tech
Armin Svoboda
Head of Digital Product
Laura Yang
Software Engineer
Sam Tither
Portfolio Analyst
Gavin Weekes
Risk & Compliance
Christine Jensen
Marketing Manager
Raj Gooptu
Product & Relationship Manager
Nick Sigley
Software Engineer
Ryan Potter
Senior Software Engineer
Chi Nguyen
Research Analyst
Nicola Maling
Office & Events Manager
Vicki Dale
Compliance Officer
Nisal Eriagama
Customer Success Specialist
Caitlyn Parker
Customer Success Team Lead
Fi MacKenzie
Product Owner
Isaac Pattison
Product Designer
Sam Ward
Software Engineer
Our Company
Our mission to create a world where Kiwis are wealthier, more financially literate and good savings and investing behaviours is embedded for future generations, starts internally with our people.
As an Accredited Certified Living Wage Employer, we want to ensure our employees are paid fairly in order to fund a life they can enjoy.
Our desire to put people first extends even further to our financial literacy efforts, where we provide a range of helpful resources and support the Commission for Financial Capability (CFFC)’s Money Week each year. Included in this, we run free seminars, host educational events and more.
As a future-focussed company, we voluntarily offset our carbon emissions through Toitu Envirocare.
Further, we make a concerted effort to reduce our carbon footprint by minimising domestic travel, opting for compostable marketing materials and more.
One of our core values is to foster thinking differently – because not all investors are alike. We empower them to express their individuality.
We’re proud to be members of and support the rainbow community during Pride Week and every other day of the year.
Behind the scenes, we are a growing, dedicated and diverse team that shows deep respect for everybody we engage with.
We carry ourselves with integrity and this is reflected in how we engage with you as our investor.
Kernel is committed to providing a safe, welcoming and inclusive workplace for all staff. We respect and value the characteristics that make individuals unique including gender, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion and socio-economic background. That does not mean tokenism, photographic diversity or bias.
It means during recruitment, internal discussion and career progression considering more than skills and experience, as to how the new perspective, personality and background might complement our team and mission.
We believe a team that supports and represents the diversity within our communities makes our organisation stronger. It also makes us more capable of understanding our broad-ranging investor needs, ensuring we respond effectively to them.
An insatiable desire to understand the inner workings of things fosters an environment of continual thinking and problem solving.
Say It Like It Is
We will always engage with our investors in a language they understand – never diluted and never in the small print.
Not all investors or our team are alike and we will empower them to express their individuality.
We encourage open and free sharing of opinions, so that everyone feels as though they can collaborate and contribute.
We’re always on the look out for talented individuals to join our team
- Flexible Working
- Competitive Salary
- Auckland CBD
- Start-up culture
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