Diablo Management Limited provides executive and financial management to businesses.

• Ability to provide a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) secondment on a flexible basis – either short or long term – or providing support, back-up and mentoring to the existing CEO.
  
• Providing a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for top level executive management financial controls – also on a flexible basis tailored to the size and needs of the business.
  
• Mentoring and management for business structuring, technology commercialisation, intellectual property protection, in-licensing and out-licensing of technology, government grants, and corporate governance.
  
• Accounting and administration, including bookkeeping, preparation of monthly management accounts, filing of GST returns, and management of day to day cashflows.
  
• Payroll processing and reporting.
  
• Assisting with implementing Xero’s simple, smart and secure online accounting system, as a certified Xero partner.
  
• Developing and writing of business plans.
  
• Supporting and advising for capital raising.
• Managing and administering New Zealand subsidiary companies on behalf of overseas parent companies.

We operate mainly in the technology sector (biotechnology, software, communications, energy, electronics, high-tech engineering and manufacturing), with a strong focus on businesses based on intellectual property.

There is a lot of detail in the management of many of the business aspects that we attend to. Larger companies have dedicated employees or even whole teams of people to look after these aspects. In start-ups and smaller companies, managing these aspects tends to fall onto the entrepreneur or managing director, and either becomes a drain on time and energy or falls into arrears.

We see a large part of our role as supporting smaller companies to attend to these details, thereby freeing up creativity in the management team and allowing entrepreneurs to focus on doing what they do best – working on the bigger picture for the business. Business owners and investors can then have confidence that their businesses are able to grow with the support of good management and knowing that robust structures and processes are in place.