--- title: About Us description: Mero delivers transformative data analytics, AI, FP&A, and cloud data engineering solutions to drive New Zealand businesses forward. url: https://mero.co.nz/about-us/ markdown_url: https://mero.co.nz/about-us.md type: page slug: about-us author: Morgan McGhee published: 2024-03-13T20:55:40Z modified: 2026-04-21T03:15:02Z language: en-US word_count: 819 tokens: 1436 --- # About Us Mero is a powerhouse of data expertise, born from the combined legacy of CDP Group and Sentio. Since 1975, we’ve been a trusted name in delivering innovative data management and analytics solutions across diverse industries. Contact Us (09) 574 1770 info@mero.co.nz Support Page Contact Us Our Expertise Modern Analytics Architectures: We craft solutions using leading-edge technologies, from SAP and Google to Workday Adaptive Planning and a wide range of open-source tools. Agile Delivery: We prioritise speed and flexibility, ensuring your solutions are delivered efficiently and meet your evolving needs. Expertise & Mentorship: Our team is passionate about sharing knowledge, fostering collaboration, and empowering your team with the skills they need to succeed. Full Outsourcing Solutions: We understand that sometimes you need a complete hands-off approach. Our cloud-based outsourcing solutions offer comprehensive data management, allowing you to focus on your core business. Our Mission We design and develop bespoke analytics, planning, and data engineering solutions that drive insights into your business. This empowers you to make informed and high impact decisions, leading to increased efficiency, optimised performance, and ultimately, a significant impact on your bottom line. From modern analytics architectures through to fast and agile delivery – we nurture and develop a deep level of expertise within our team. Dashboards, data lakes, analytics platforms, payroll optimisation and financial forecasting are what we do. A Team of Data Enthusiasts Our team of 40+ is a tight-knit, multicultural melting pot of talented and knowledgeable industry experts, with just the right amount of overzealousness when it comes to complex data projects. Our company-wide focus on providing the best possible outcome for our customers has allowed us to work on some incredible projects, and has led us to create solutions that we feel good about and can be proud of. We are grateful for our customers, and we take it upon ourselves to deliver quality consulting on every engagement. We are proud to serve our customers from our offices in Auckland and Wellington, with a consulting presence in Christchurch. Meet the Executive Team With over 100 years of combined experience, we’ve got a well-seasoned team at the helm. mail icon clicks through to email Allen Keyte Links to Allen Keyte’s linkedin Allen Keyte Auckland – Director, Commercial Allen is a Director of our group of companies specialising in cloud-based strategy management, analytics, planning & data integration solutions. The global customer base Allen has helped build is proof of his success across the full spectrum of dashboarding, KPI reporting, forecasting, data warehousing and strategy execution solutions. Allen’s leadership and understanding comes from more than 25 years’ experience in the industry. He has a deep knowledge of consulting services, analytics software specialisation, solution sales & marketing, customer engagement, geographical expansion, acquisitions, partnership and overall company financing and management. Allen has strengths in both innovating established operations; and incubating early-stage initiatives. mail icon clicks through to email Jason Blockley Links to Jason Blockley’s linkedin Jason Blockley Auckland – Director, Services Jason leads our consulting services team to effectively scope out practical provisioning of a broad array of analytics, planning, and data integration solutions. Jason’s engagement in analytics projects for diverse clients and technologies exposes him to a myriad of customer challenges and fosters the cross-fertilisation of solutions for both customers and our staff. Jason began his analytics career as an SAP BW consultant in 1999 and now leads the delivery of consulting services to our many customers across New Zealand. mail icon clicks through to email Craig Catley Links to Craig Catley’s linkedin Craig Catley Wellington – Director, Solutions Craig is the leading force in moving us into new, innovative analytic solutions for an ever changing market. As a Director with over 25 years’ experience in our industry, he brings a pedigree of highly successful sales & marketing programs for enterprise analytics and data platforms. Given all his recent achievements, Craig is also considered by industry analysts to be a global expert in the emerging field of strategy execution solutions. mail icon clicks through to email Simon Lawrence Links to Simon Lawrence’s linkedin Simon Lawrence London – Director, EMEA Simon has more than 20 years’ experience in architecture, development and project management of analytical, reporting and data integration solutions. He has particular experience with large UK-based multinational companies, working exclusively on business intelligence and data warehousing applications for much of that time and having designed his first dimensional database and analysis application in 1993. Simon still actively works on client assignments where he focuses on data integration and analytics architecture, as well as solutions to support successful strategic planning and execution. Our Partners Mero collaborates with trusted partners to deliver innovative solutions that address our clients’ business challenges. Get Started With A Business Discovery Session Great conversations lead to great outcomes. Get in touch below, and we’ll contact you to arrange a 15 minute business discovery session. Contact Us (09) 574 1770 info@mero.co.nz Support Page Contact Us