Get Better Franchise Advice, Using The WHK National Franchise Team

WHK have been involved with Franchising for many years and each office has dedicated Franchise Specialist Teams. We work alongside business owners to ensure their Franchise Strategy is robust and pride ourselves in providing better advice, better value for money and better service to franchise businesses.

Our Franchising clients can expect:

• Experience in evaluating Franchising opportunities including assistance in putting

Donna Harkness CA

Associate Principal - Tax Consulting

Auckland CBD Office

Donna joined WHK Auckland in March 2003. She is an Associate Principal in the tax practice in the
Auckland office. Prior to this she had three years experience at PricewaterhouseCoopers in their Auckland tax practice.

In addition to consulting on a variety of national and international taxation matters, Donna is highly experienced in tax effect accounting and the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

Donna

Amanda Watt CA

Associate Principal - Business Advisory Services

Auckland CBD Office

Amanda specialises in the areas of succession and estate planning, business consulting, restructuring and asset protection.

Amanda works closely with the property development and construction industries, as well as in the advertising and professional services sectors.  She also successfully helped many companies expand their trans-Tasman operations.

Amanda has recently been elected as a Board Member

Renée Butler  CA

Associate Principal - Audit and Assurance

Auckland CBD Office

With over 11 years of experience in providing audit and assurance services, Renée is passionate about building strong working relationships with her clients and providing them with practical advice they can rely on.

Renée specialises in assurance services, completing statutory audits for the public sector and private sector industries including, Education, Insurance, Finance and Leasing, Superannuation,

Andrew Sayers CA

Principal - Tax Consulting

Auckland CBD Office

Andrew heads up WHK Auckland’s Tax division and has considerable expertise in all areas of taxation, with a particular focus on international business structuring. As such he is a member of WHK’s Import / Export Advisory Team, which provides specialist strategic advice relating to inbound and outbound investments.

Andrew is a featured (co)author of many international publications including the CCH International Tax Planning

Tony Weber CA

Associate Principal - Corporate Finance and Forensic Accounting

Auckland CBD Office

Tony' experience includes three years with Horwath (NSW) Pty Limited in Sydney in their Corporate and Forensic Accounting Services division as an Associate Director. He returned to Auckland in 2005 and took up a position with Horwath Porter Wigglesworth Limited ("HPW").

Following the merger of WHK and HPW on 1 April 2007, Tony was appointed to the position of Associate Principal. Tony's

Gay Rankin

Chief Executive

As Chief Executive, Gay is responsible for the growth and development of the firm as well as having overall responsibility for leading each of the WHK service lines.

Gay joins WHK from the ANZ Banking Group where she has had a career primarily focussed on the SME sector with key roles as: GM Business Banking; GM Strategy and Performance; and Head of Strategy and Operations.

Gay's passion for the SME market, as well as her experience in leading successful business

Martin Richardson BSc BCom CA

Principal - Business Advisory Services

North Shore, Takapuna Office

Martin joined WHK in 1993 and has served as a Principal since 1995.

Originally a science graduate in molecular biology, Martin spent five years working in research establishments before obtaining his commerce degree in 1989.

Martin's area of specialty lies in business improvement and management consulting, as well as taxation, strategic planning and structuring advice.  He is closely involved

Glen Gernhoefer CA

Principal - Business Advisory Services

Auckland CBD Office

Glen joined WHK from university in 1995 becoming a Principal in July 2006.  Glen has experience in the insolvency area, including receiverships and liquidations, where he works with lenders and creditors to secure and review their positions.  He has also been involved with taxation, succession and estate planning, restructuring, and asset protection assignments.

Glen works closely with the construction industry,