Our teams range of skills and experience gives clients a broad set of solutions to help grow their business.
Jane Finlayson
B.Ag Sc. (Marketing & Management) from Massey University ; Dip. Management (Service Sector) from Auckland University.
Jane has operated Backbone for over 7 years, where her expertise and knowledge has been sought out particularly in the rural and veterinary sectors. She has worked with and for multinational companies as well as small to medium NZ businesses.
During her career Jane has gained qualifications and experience in sales, marketing and management. Her experience includes the highly disciplined and resourced marketing environment of an American multinational pharmaceutical company (MSD Agvet) through to the set up and management of a local, sparingly resourced veterinary marketing franchise brand. She enjoys working in the veterinary and rural sectors and has clients that include small businesses through to larger multinationals companies.
Darren gained extensive sales experience in the travel and tourism sector. He has spent the last 8 years in operations and management roles including Chief Information Officer for one of NZ's largest andmost successful retail and corporate travel companies, Flight Centre.Darren also played rugby to a provincial and international level and has exposure and experience in high performance teams and understands the elements of exceptional coaching.
Chris Millar
Chris provides marketing support, drawing on experience in a variety of Sales and Marketing roles with leading New Zealand companies such as Hallmark Cards New Zealand, RetailWorld Resourcing, Rudd Watts and Stone and retailer Farmers.
Katrina Savery
Katrina is the customer services representative for PrintStop. She has broad business to business experience and worked in a number of stationery and printing businesses including Business Zone in Whangaparaoa.