Convergence has demonstrated expertise in financial and investor communications, supporting clients to devise the right strategies and activities to manage investor relations, reporting, capital raisings, share offers, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, analyst presentations, influencer programmes, media positioning and reputation building.
We have an experienced team with proven credentials and a record of success – a team that really enjoys the business of business and able to connect with investors, from fund managers to mum and dad shareholders, to business reporters and analysts.
Our financial specialist, Janine Ogier, is an excellent writer who quite literally speaks the language of business media. Janine has a comprehensive knowledge of the everyday workings of the financial markets and international business world having worked as a journalist for more than 20 years, eight as an editor and writer for financial news service BridgeNews in London, Sydney and Wellington where she established a reputation for excellent analysis of economic and central bank news. She has also written for The Australian Financial Review, afr.com, Money magazine, the New Zealand Herald, Property magazine, Good Returns, Agence France-Presse, Australian Associated Press, Australian fund manager Colonial First State and University College London. Regular equities, foreign exchange and debt market commentaries were part of her repertoire, as well as news on companies, their earnings potential and in-depth analysis of events. She has covered elections, budgets, meetings of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) group of nations and International Monetary Fund and World Bank summits. A former business journalism tutor, she has excellent ‘contacts’ with many of her former students as well as former work colleagues still working in the media nationally and internationally.
The consultancy also has an MBA-qualified partner – Suzanne McNamara – while Erin Jamieson was part of listed company, Lyttelton Port of Christchurch’s senior management team for four years. During this time she worked on producing a range of communications that are obligatory for a listed company. Leigh Harris has also provided strategic advisory and media training to numerous CEOs and board members in the course of her career.
Over the years we have written numerous annual reports and other publications for clients that include ASURE NZ, Queenstown Airport Corporation, Skellerup, Orion New Zealand and Richmond New Zealand.
Financial sector-related work has been undertaken for Ocean Partners, Wools Services International, Central Plains Water, Rutherford Fund, Infiniti Capital, Lyttelton Port of Christchurch and South Canterbury Finance.