AVANT GROUP LIMITED - Key Persons
Antony is a CA and member of the Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand. He brings extensive experience from across the commercial sector in both local and international markets, specialising in Financial Accounting and IT systems. In the last 9 years, he has worked in residential property developments that has successfully delivered hundreds of residential construction projects, from two-bedroom homes through to large scale land developments. His expertise in reporting, insights & analysis is a useful skillset to support sound business decisions and improve business performance.
Job Titles:
- CEO - Avant EPCF Construction
Brent brings more than 20 years of executive and senior operational leadership roles in the civil construction industry.
With a real passion for driving innovation and achieving continuous improvement, Brent strives to identify growth opportunities and deliver sustainable transformative projects.
Brent has played an active role in the New Zealand business community, including the Climate Leaders Coalition and Construction Strategy Group and has worked at all levels from governance to ‘boots on the ground'., bringing a pragmatic approach to all aspects of business.
Job Titles:
- Leader
- Manager
- Civils Manager
Cameron is an experienced manager and leader in the civil industry with eight years of experience managing and leading a wide array of team structures. Prior to this he spent 3 years working full time "on the ground" in civil and earthwork environments. As a Project Manager and Area Manager he has successfully completed multiple large-scale projects with significant individual value and has led concurrent projects consisting of up to 7 individual projects.
Eli comes from a consultancy background as a client-side Project Manager. This honed his skills in ensuring all construction projects under his supervision are streamlined, as he is able to identify risks and solve future problems ahead of time.
Eva has worked in the accounting services for 15 years for both small and large sized businesses. Her experience includes managing accounts payable & receivable, payroll and development drawdown schedules. Eva's work ethic and attention to detail ensures the smooth running of the day-to-day accounts. Eva is also responsible for general office management, including procurement.
Jason's background and commercial experience is highly varied with numerous years operating successful businesses, mainly in the aviation and tourism sector. Jason has had significant involvement in property development playing a key role in the Boathouse Bay and Kōtuitui projects, providing financial support and making good use of his long standing business relationships with banking and legal partners to assist with the management and oversight of the projects.
Job Titles:
- Development Manager
- Director
Mark's experience spans more than 20 years, and has a proven ability to complete projects successfully, whilst establishing and maintaining rapport with all stakeholders.
Mark has contributed to more than 50 projects to date, containing over 8,350 homes in multi-unit residential developments. He understands property development and the many facets involved, from project creation and definition, value enhancement, funding, sales and marketing, team management, stakeholder engagement, procurement and construction/delivery.
Mark has a strong passion for including best practice sustainability features within all aspects of our developments.
began his property career at an early age and now has over 30 years experience. Mat has a senior leadership role in the Avant Group direction. Using his experience to provide support in all facets of the development process. Specifically Mat leads project procurement, project concept, economic structuring and risk management.
Job Titles:
- Sales & Marketing Manager
Megan has a wealth of experience in the property industry which spans more than 27 years working for small and large construction and development companies.
Megan is also a Licensed Real Estate Salesperson. Her experience is broad, and incorporates home renovations, refurbishment of blocks and individual units, staging, interior design, selling, property management and project management. She has owned and operated her own businesses in a variety of fields as well as undertaken support roles for developers and construction companies throughout her career.
Megan has developed the ability to manage a broad range of tasks at any one time, with efficiency and a practical down to earth approach.
Shane has worked in the land development sector for 10 years. In 2020, he left the consulting world to work for one of New Zealand''s largest developers delivering complex projects in Auckland, managing large project teams. In this time Shane has gained knowledge in the house building, sales and marketing side of residential development. Formerly a chartered engineer, his background is in civil design and delivery. His strength is problem solving and the ability to align a team to move forward and progress. Shane has worked with private and public organisations as well as coordinating with mana whenua to achieve great outcomes for everyone.
Tom has a wealth of experience in the property industry across both the UK and NZ markets. As a trained valuer he has worked with private, public and Iwi organisations, specialising in delivering complex, urban regeneration projects.
This has given Tom experience of the entire development cycle from project identification through to completion and settlement of the final product. Projects include 200+ apartments in Hobsonville, 225 houses in Queenstown and 500 houses in Tamaki, Auckland.