ADVANCED DERMA CARE - Key Persons


Kim Ryan

Job Titles:
  • Director
Advanced Derma Care was founded by trained nurse and beauty therapist Kim Ryan and her husband Paul. After working in the industry for a number of years, Kim launched Advanced Derma Care to share her experience in advanced dermal therapies and product knowledge. Kim has worked with a broad sector of the beauty industry for over 25 years. She has worked with over 50 brands from standard retail options to advanced dermal solutions with a number of leading skincare companies. She is an executive member of the New Zealand Registered Beauty Therapy Association and has served for two terms as the President of the Association. Kim feels that it is important to be constantly striving for better safer practices and on going education for all therapists. Kim has won numerous national and international awards throughout her beauty career for training and business development. Kim continues to strive for excellence and continues to tutor at Premier Institute of Education, giving young budding therapists the opportunity to see beyond the basics. She is also a sought-after beauty expert and has written for a number of magazines including NZ Beauty, Headway, Mindfood, M2 Woman and Simply Beauty. Kim leads the customer product selection and training for the company backed by a team providing support with sales, day to day operations and strategic management and direction for the company. Combined we can share over 100 years of senior sales and management experience to help you grow your business and are driven by a strong customer service ethic and a passion for creating and delivering a point of difference to everyone who interacts with Advanced Derma Care.

Mark Ryan

Job Titles:
  • Director
Having known Paul from birth, and having had the honour of being best man at Kim's wedding, Mark is the latest addition to the team and is jumping at the opportunity to build on the success Advanced Derma Care has built in New Zealand. A long term resident of Melbourne Mark has travelled extensively around Australia. Bringing 30 years of management experience to the table across a variety of industries delivering quality results with integrity is absolutely what it is all about.

Nicola Ogles

Job Titles:
  • Digital Marketing and Brand Development Manager
Our guru editor of The Friday Focus and administrator across social media channels and strategy.

Paul Ryan

Job Titles:
  • General Manager
While working as an independent management consultant the stars quickly began to align as Advanced Derma Care grow very quickly from inception and Paul joined Kim hands-on in the business."I am delighted to have the opportunity to support Kim, our team and our customers wherever possible. This includes all elements of company systems, logistics and accounts. We embrace a lean, low-cost model with extensive use of cloud technology to facilitate flexibility, efficient remote working and maximizing face-to-face customer time while maintaining a 100% mark up from wholesale to RRP across our brands. Our systems have been developed from experience in business process modeling and ISO accreditation and are designed to allow for instant scalability in any area of our business while retaining solid company reporting and quality assurance".