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The team
Boyd Wason
Partner / MD

A pioneer of digital marketing, sought after speaker and educator, Boyd’s passion is helping businesses realise the true potential of digital channels and technologies to achieve hard objectives – produce leads and create sales.
Through his career he's created breakthrough strategies for clients including Heinz Wattie's, Holden, James Hardie and Air New Zealand - along the way winning numerous awards.
Today, Boyd is one of the founding partners of Engaging Partners. A strategic visionary on a mission to align humans with technology to create better customer experiences and drive greater business outcomes.
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Sonia Slattery
Partner / COO / CMO

With roots in digital marketing, Sonia is the ‘glue' that connects all aspects of the agency. With a career spanning strategy, creative, delivery and management, Sonia brings the ‘done’ from Done by Friday to Engaging Partners so we get sh*t done! From enterprise eCommerce systems to innovative multi-channel campaigns, she has guided, designed and delivered hundreds of digital projects for clients across a broad range of industries. Her strategic vision and a unique ability to bridge marketing, senior management, IT stakeholders and creative teams means she makes projects happen - on time and on budget.
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Trevor Van Rensburg
Solutions Partner

Trevor has worked with large corporates, mid-size organisations, and start-ups in a wide array of industries for more than twenty five years. He is especially experienced at identifying and developing new market opportunities that ensure long-term revenue streams. His ability to be an operationally astute leader while transforming client growth strategies ensures that he enables organisations to create highly efficient and profitable businesses with appropriate technologies.
When he’s not automating client marketing, sales and service operations, Trevor enjoys discovering new places with his family, drinking good coffee and wine, and sports of all descriptions.
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Hugo Venter
Senior Transformation Partner

Hugo is a marketing professional with a diverse background in digital and traditional media. His resume includes complex CRM and CMS projects for organisations such as the World Bank Group, MSC Cruises and First National Bank.
He has overseen ecommerce deployment in businesses of varying scale and has worked with Shopify in support of their largest merchants on the Shopify Plus platform. In his ad agency career, he has worked on accounts for Coca Cola, Airwork New Zealand, Land Rover and Jaguar.
His superpower is finding (or making) ways for organisations to navigate complex problems.
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Nadine Singh
Senior Transformation Partner

Maia Martin
Senior Transformation Partner

Maia graduated with a Bachelor of Management and Marketing and jumped straight into a CRM and loyalty role specialising in data-driven marketing automation and segmentation.
In this role, she gained experience with multiple international clients. She worked successfully with many different business set ups, including a mix of B2C and B2B, enjoying the mix of expectations each day brought.
Maia is driven to complete work to the highest standards. Her goal has always been to move into the change management space and will be using her experience in CRM to support her role with Engaging Partners.
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Jindrich Fixa
HubSpot Engineer & Technical Lead

Jindrich is an up and coming leader in technical project management, systems management, digital marketing and data analytics. He is qualified in the dual disciplines of Applied Digital Marketing and Economics, and has also worked in the areas of business development, management and sales.
Expert in ERP and CRM implementations and leading high profile projects with significant complexity. His work experience comprises a range of industries and is skilled in translating technical concepts into operational realities.
Recognised by others as being thorough, skilled, up to date with industry advances and best practices, and possessing a deep understanding of data and analytics. Jindrich strives to stay at the cutting edge of emerging technologies and implement industry best practice.
Fun fact: Jindrich is teaching a Level 9 Digital Marketing course in the evenings. And loves backcountry hiking on weekends.
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Estelle Schuler
Marketing Executive

Estelle is an ambitious and strategic thinker, focusing her attention one step ahead. She merges creativity and logic to produce engaging, compelling content. With roots in copywriting and journalism, Estelle is a natural-born storyteller. She is also well versed in social media management and content marketing.
As a Digital Marketing Executive at Engaging Partners, Estelle assists the team with account management and programme production across a range of clients. She also heads the Engaging Partners marketing and coordinates events alongside the CMO, Sonia.
Estelle loves learning, watching movies, her dog Roxy, and drinking awfully large amounts of coffee. In fact, if the rumours are true, we strongly suspect that Estelle's blood is 20% cappuccino and 5% americano.
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Gail Cooke
Accounts and Office Manager

Role: Engaging Partners’ Finance and Office Manager
- EP's in-house accountant and office manager
- In charge of debtor and creditor management and all IRD statutory requirements
- Office and staff administration
Experience:
- Started in the fashion industry in the 1990s but since studied accounting and management later
- Worked as a junior accountant for an accounting firm Gosling Chapman whilst studying Diploma in Business (Accounting) at AUT
- Became a self-employed tax agent for IRD in 2007 working with SMEs like Engaging Partners - one of Gail’s original clients since becoming an independent accounting contractor
Interests:
Her passion is in travelling, exploring the world. She travels with her family everywhere either within NZ or overseas at least once a year (until COVID restricts her wings to fly.)
Kapil Lad
Lead Designer

Kapil is a digital design junkie, with over ten years of industry experience. Alongside staying on top of current trends, Kapil strives for aesthetic greatness, delivering solutions that are both creative and practical. His main design principles are communication and collaboration, helping him to achieve the best solutions for all clients.
To switch his mind off from the digital, Kapil enjoys a long stint on the cricket pitch most weekends. Howzat!
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Alfred Rodas
Technical Solutions Producer

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