Director set for Australia

The managing director of FleetPartners in New Zealand is crossing the Tasman to take up the same position with the company’s Australian operation based in Melbourne. Dennis Kelly joined the company seven years ago having previously held executive and divisional general management positions for organisations including Hertz Fleetlease, Capital Equipment Finance, Countrywide Bank and NZI Bank. Since joining FleetPartners, he has played a critical role in improving customer experience and growing the lease portfolio nationally in the corporate and small-to-medium enterprise (SME) markets through its regional offices. In his new role, he will focus build momentum with customer acquisition in both markets following a recent systems migration. He will continue to be supported by an experienced senior management team and believes growth will come from FleetPartners’ spread of customers via its network of regional offices coupled with smart technology enabling effective engagement with new clients. Replacing Kelly as managing director of FleetPartners NZ is Paul Verhoeven, who is currently the head of lending at UDC. With more than 25 years’ finance and leasing experience here, in the UK and Europe, he will focus on introducing technology to increase speed to market and customer experience, product innovation and ensure what FleetPartners does underpins its customer delivery proposition. Verhoeven understands the company’s success will revolve around customer and distributor relationships, and he’ll be working with the wider FleetPartners team to ensure it’s well-connected in these relationships and empowered to add value. FleetPartners NZ is a leading vehicle leasing and fleet management company. Managing more than 50,000 units here and in Australia and New Zealand, it caters for multi-national corporations with corporate or commercial fleets to small businesses looking for one to 10 vehicles.