Anastasiya Gutorova, David Denzer, Fiona Foster, Ryan Thompson and Vignesh Kumar elected to council.
Anastasiya Gutorova from Simpson Grierson, David Denzer from ANZ Bank, Fiona Foster from Movac, Ryan Thompson from Oriens Capital, and Vignesh Kumar of Global From Day One, have been elected to the council of the New Zealand Private Capital Association.
David Bell from Oriens Capital, James Hawes from Simpson Grierson, and Mark Stuart from Movac have stepped down after several years of service.
NZ Private Capital executive director, Colin McKinnon said each of the retiring council members had provided significant contributions to the association in different roles. “Our council members are advocates for private equity markets in New Zealand and share our understanding that private equity and venture capital firms accelerate the ambition of New Zealand business owners through operational improvement and investment performance,” he said.
Bell served as an active Treasurer for several years and led professional development initiatives for fund CFOs especially round AML compliance. Hawes served on the Regulatory and Tax Working Group and contributed to the design of conference speaker programmes. Stuart served on the Venture Capital Working Group and contributed to the speaker programme for the inaugural Venture Summit.
Anastasiya Gutorova is a senior associate in the Simpson Grierson corporate team. She is a specialist corporate and commercial lawyer, with extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, equity capital markets, joint ventures, corporate governance, and overseas investment. Gutorova has acted on a number of significant and complex transactions, advising a wide range of domestic and international clients, including major corporates, private equity, and investment banks.
David Denzer, CFA is associate director - leveraged and acquisition finance at ANZ.
Fiona Foster joined Movac in 2021 as investment and operations manager. Prior to Movac, she worked at Kiwi Group Holdings where she was part of a small team advising the KGH Board and delivering on the financial and strategic objectives of the group’s shareholders (NZ Super, ACC and NZ Post). Before her time at KGH, Foster had a career in corporate finance at PwC in both NZ and the US.
Ryan Thompson is a senior analyst with Oriens Capital. Thompson holds a Bachelor of Business Analysis Degree from the University of Waikato, majoring in both finance and economics. Thompson’s transaction experience includes Bluelab, IVS, Retirement Income Group, About Health, and Rhino Manufacturing. Prior to joining Oriens Capital in 2017, he interned at the NZ Superannuation fund and worked in multiple teams for BNZ Markets.
Vignesh Kumar is a partner at venture capital firm GD1 and leads GD1’s Hardware, Deep Tech, and Health Tech investments. Prior to returning to New Zealand, Kumar worked for Apple Inc, across its US and East Asian offices, on hardware execution, and has spent the entirety of his career commercialising science-anchored innovations across verticals such as medical devices and consumer electronics. Vignesh holds an MBA from Wharton, University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Fulbright Scholar, and also holds a BE (Hons) and ME (Hons) from The University of Auckland.
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