About us
Meet our team
KNK Consultants - Naomi and Kris Ballantyne, offer a completely unique value proposition to boards of directors, shareholders, executive recruiters and global management consultancy firms.
Between us we have founded, grown and successfully exited – a number of the largest, most technologically advanced, and most highly recognised Life and Health Insurers in New Zealand.
Our most recent example is Partners Life in New Zealand which we successfully sold to global giant Dai-Ichi Life in 2022 for $1b NZD.
The breadth and depth of the strategic and operational executive knowledge and experience we collectively share is in itself unique, which is then strengthened further by our individual, multi-generational perspectives.
Naomi is one of New Zealand's most prodigious entrepreneurs and Managing Directors having been involved in the founding and growing of three of New Zealand's most prominent financial services businesses, and in 2022 became the first woman in New Zealand to have sold her start-up for over $1bn.
Naomi has amassed a wealth of knowledge and experience across all facets of founding, growing, managing, capitalising and transforming businesses of all sizes.
Naomi Ballantyne
Kris Ballantyne
Kris is a relentless innovation driver and customer advocate with a strong focus and experience base in Marketing, Brand, Advertising, Technology, Digital Solutions, Product Development and Distribution.
Over his career, Kris has received local and international acclaim, and his work has garnered numerous international awards in both the Brand and Advertising, and Digital Innovation spaces.