About Us

Unfinished Business started as a collaboration of two professionals – Kerran Larson and Mark Bailey. If you are looking for “yes men” please keep looking, as you won’t find any here. We are anything but – and sometimes we don’t even agree with each other. But we’re a very good team, primarily because we appreciate the different perspectives and experiences that each of us brings to any situation.

Our respective professional experience is as follows –

Kerran Larson – Business Management Advisor

For over 35 years Kerran has worked with individuals, companies, government agencies and Iwi (Maori) organisations – from across the spectrum – and many in business. Client feedback can be summed up as – very confidential and discrete, that he (Kerran) goes where angels would not dare to tread. He always finds alternatives. He is left-field, likes direct involvement and, crucially, he walks the talk.

His experience is summed up as –

• 6 years industrial management
• 10 years finance and insurance.
• 8 years contracted to Ngai Tahu business division.
• 7 years as a Tenancy Adjudicator (first appointed by the Minister of Justice in 1992).
• 9 years general contract management for two prominent NZ national brands.
• Receiverships and Liquidations.
• Chairs local voluntary community organisations.
• Established a wide range of professional collegial networks.

Kerran is an Associate Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Management (AFNZIM), has both a Diploma and a Bachelor of Applied Management and is an accredited New Zealand consultant. He brings a strong self-reliant and well informed approach to exploring opportunities and resolving problems.

A favourite quote is:

"When you change the way you see things, the things you see change." - Anonymous

Mark Bailey – Economist

Mark has extensive real-world experience, a rare feature to find in any economist. This allows him to look at many scenarios with a potent mix of intellectual rigor and street-smarts.

His work experience to date can be summarised as –

• 7 years banking and financial services.
• 8 years in public policy (including a stint with the Australian Treasury).
• 3 years business management – senior financial and administrative management role with a family-owned Southland agribusiness.
• 6 years in real estate investment and project management.
• As a Board member and Chairperson of community groups.
• Mark has qualifications in business (BBus) and economics(GradDipEcon, MEcon).

He has found that the best decisions are made with an open mind, and that people prefer it when you are "straight up" with them – even with bad news.

"There is a solution for every problem, you just need to find it and apply it."

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