David Reiss

    Co-CEO and Principal Consultant

    Auckland

    David Reiss

    David Reiss and Deane Sloan are Equinox IT's Co-CEOs.

    In addition to his company leadership responsibilities, David also runs Equinox IT's cloud strategy, leads a specialist team of expert consultants and engages directly with our clients as a principal consultant. David helps clients adapt their businesses by cleverly using technology to refine operations and customer interactions and even create entirely new business models.

    Equinox IT has intentionally adopted this client-centric Co-CEO model, allowing the company to stay at the forefront of the changing ways of working and keeping a finger on the pulse with clients.

    David has been with the company since 2016, holding the roles of Principal Consultant and General Manager Auckland. He brings a wealth of experience from his earlier 14 years at Spark Digital, where he held consulting, marketing and sales roles.

    He has specialist skills in the following:

    • Company leadership, strategic direction and business management
    • Consulting, business case development and stakeholder alignment
    • Digital transformation, technology strategy and planning
    • Technology leadership and architecture
    • Scoping and leading cloud implementation and migration
    • DevOps, Agile and other new ways of working
      Business and cultural change management
    • Proposition development, sales and marketing.

    "Businesses evolving quickly is the new normal. Deane and I love being both Co-CEOs and Principal Consultants because that means we can bring our clients’ needs into how we run our business in real-time. We’re both passionate about what Equinox IT stands for and how we can help the digital evolution of New Zealand organisation."

    David is also a speaker and author, with articles in various print and online publications, including his popular LinkedIn articles that have a local and global following.

    He has been through the Gen-i Sales Academy at Waikato University.

    When not at work David cures and smokes delicious meats.

    Follow David on LinkedIn to see his popular digital transformation articles.

    Contact David