Meet our friendly team

Trish Patterson

Director, Chartered Accountant

Trish is a qualified Chartered Accountant with over 35 years experience in the industry. She is a specialist in accounting and taxation. Trish loves helping people with their tax, giving business advice and helping companies to remain solvent.

Amy Thomas

Director, Chartered Accountant

Amy joined Accountants Hawkes Bay in November 2020. She has over 15 years’ experience in public practice and industry as well as having worked in wholesale banking here in New Zealand and overseas.

Amy has a passion for helping clients to identify and set their goals and put a plan together to make it all happen. A big part of achieving goals is accountability, with this in mind Amy can offer monthly or quarterly coaching sessions to help keep you accountable and keep you on track to achieve your goals.

Brian Nielsen-Vold

Chartered Accountant /Consultant

Brian has been a post cutter in the bush, farm contractor, baker, & a financial controller before training to become a Chartered Accountant.

As a past Director of Accountants Hawkes Bay, Brian has vast experience & he is able to understand many of today's business realities.

Business advice is Brian’s major strength.

Craig Jones

Practice Manager

Having come from many years’ service in the NZ Police , Craig is now an experienced business manager with a track record of building SME businesses from start-up as well as positively contributing to existing businesses, both large and small. Craig’s management experience extends across both B2B and B2C markets in the retail, commercial and industrial sectors.

Peter Ogier

Chartered Accountant /Consultant

Peter joined us in April 2023 when his accounting practice Ogier Chartered Accountants merged with Accountants Hawkes Bay. He has a strong tax background having commenced his career at Inland Revenue and has spent the last 25 years in public practice.

Peter has a strong emphasis on education by helping clients to understand and use their financial information, especially utilising real time Xero data and reporting for timely decisions. He believes in the importance of streamlining systems to maximise efficiencies while understanding clients have unique needs.

Accounting Team

Lisa Dooney - Chartered Accountant

Brett Robertson – Senior Accountant

Alistair Smith - Management Accountant

Monica Kleyn - Accountant

Amrinder Singh - Accountant

Bruce Arnold - Accounting Technician

Accounting Support Team & Admin

Jo Harding

Letitia Lourens

Sue Warner