John Holt

Current

CEO at Sonar6

Past

Chairman at Talentpoint
CEO at Wheeler Campbell Consulting
Local CEO at ANZ Bank

NZ Manager - Corporate and Government at Hewlett Packard

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Education

Massey University
University of Canterbury

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

My Company

John Holt’s Summary

Successful entrepreneur and intrapreneur across a broad range of industry and business including computer hardware and software, financial services, property, construction, hospitality and security.

Has a passion for driving growth (personal and commercial) through applying innovation and energy to commercial ventures with global market potential.

A capable and proven leader of small and large teams of people in both product and service lead industries.

John Holt’s Specialties:

General Management, Sales and Marketing, Talent Management and HR Consulting, Salesforce / Channel Consulting and Design,

John Holt’s Experience

CEO

Sonar6

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

February 2006 — Present (3 years 10 months)

Sonar6 is the only graphics-based performance management system.

Sonar6 was founded in 2004 based on the idea that performance management should be simple and rewarding. The first generation of the Sonar6 online toolset was launched in February 2006.

Growth since then has been rapid. Sonar6 now has customers all around the world, and is well known as the innovator in Human Resource software.

The goal of Sonar6 remains straightforward: Provide the best possible way to create in-depth performance reviews online, then use the information collected in those reviews to create a helicopter view of all of the people in the business.

Sonar6 has clients in the US, UK, India, Australia and New Zealand.
Chairman

Talentpoint

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Human Resources industry)

October 2005 — October 2006 (1 year 1 month)

Talentpoint delivers Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), HR Consulting and Technology Services in New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the UK.
Established in 2002 Talentpoint has delivered significant cost savings and quality improvements to the talent management process within a number of Public and Private sector organisations.
CEO

Wheeler Campbell Consulting

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Human Resources industry)

April 2004 — January 2006 (1 year 10 months)

Established in 1994, Wheeler Campbell is one of New Zealand's leading Human Resources and Recruitment organisations focussed on providing consulting and recruitment solutions to public and private sector clients across the country.
Local CEO

ANZ Bank

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ANZ; Banking industry)

2001 — 2003 (2 years )

ANZ is New Zealand's largest bank with over 10,000 employees across New Zealand and over 15,000 in the parent company, ANZ Australia.

In late 2000, the bank launched an innovative reinvention strategy which involved segmenting the retail banking operation into 19 autonomous business units each with a CEO. Out of 700 applicants 19 CEO's were selected - 16 had previous banking experience and 3 were from other industries.

Reporting directly to the New Zealand Managing Director, each CEO had full P&L responsibility for their region and was charged with developing a strategy and business plan to drive growth through local market initiatives and innovation with full support from all central functions and resources.
NZ Manager - Corporate and Government

Hewlett Packard

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Computer Hardware industry)

1996 — 2001 (5 years )

Responsible for HP's sales and marketing strategy within the Corporate and Government market in New Zealand. During my time in this role we completed a local acquisition of the NZ arm of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) integrating over 100 staff and $US15 million in services revenue to create a fully functional professional services and integration business in New Zealand and doubling the size of HP New Zealand.

Other roles I had during my time at HP included Business Unit Manager of Commercial Computer Products, Commercial Channels Manager and Busines Development Manager

John Holt’s Education

Massey University

DipBusAdmin , Marketing, Management , 1992 — 1995
University of Canterbury

BA , History , 1988 — 1994

Additional Information

John Holt’s Websites:

My Company

John Holt’s Interests:

Technology, Innovation, History, Growth and Leadership, Internet Business and Strategy

John Holt’s Groups:

KEA, Institute of Directors, NZ Institute of Management, University of Canterbury Alumni, Massey University Alumni, NZ Historic Places Trust, Royal Society, Royal Overseas League, NZ Software Association