TECHNICAL FUTURES - Key Persons


Andrew Coad

Job Titles:
  • Delivery Recruitment Manager
Andrew has recruited for over 5 years in the UK, New Zealand, and Australia working predominantly across IT, Sales, and now Engineering. He has experience recruiting at a variety of levels and enjoys building strong relationships with clients, ensuring he stays close to current and future talent requirements. Andrew brings the ability to find top talent in candidate short markets, brings a true win/win approach to all of his relationships and ensures he accurately represents our clients brand in the market. In his spare time, Andrew is an avid fitness fanatic and undertakes extreme fitness challenges to raise money for mental health.

Chris McKinney - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
Chris has recruited for over 15 years in New Zealand, Australia and the UK with a primary focus on delivering technical, planning and engineering talent into the public and private sectors. He has worked extensively on specialist recruitment assignments in board recruitment, senior management, policy, strategy, economics, hard infrastructure (design and delivery) and has supplied into most functional areas including HR, Governance, Finance, Procurement and Marketing & Communications. Most recently, Chris was a partner in a leading New Zealand executive recruitment business, helping to build the practice across the Auckland and Wellington markets in public sector, IT and executive recruitment. Chris takes a holistic view of client requirements and has a passion for building talented teams and expanding organisations through sourcing exceptional candidates.

Peter Baker

Job Titles:
  • Associate
Peter Baker joined Technical Futures in 2012 after 20 years involvement in the finance industry. The important focus here at Technical Futures is to ensure that we bring industry knowledge and contacts to the sectors that we look to recruit. For the last 11 years Peter has managed a trading room that has focused on short term trading in the New Zealand and Australian markets. Through this period maintained the industry contacts that he had built through his career and developed new industry networks. Peter brings a strong knowledge of Funds management, equities and domestic and international broking markets.

Sue Van Eynde

Job Titles:
  • Researcher
Sue manages the Technical Futures candidate sourcing and research strategies through New Zealand and internationally. Sue and her team complement our consulting staff with insightful and robust research and candidate sourcing strategies geared toward the inwards flow of great talent from a variety of global locations into New Zealand. Sue delivers an essential component to every assignment, ensuring that we talk with the very best that the market has to offer whether they are actively seeking career change or not.