Our people
Hague Consulting Limited has two directors who both work as consultants in the business and a number of specialist associates who can provide technical and analytical services. Hague is able to provide specialist contract resources for projects and can put together a team to operate from our own offices or a client’s office as required.
Phil Guerin
  Phil joined Hague as a director in October 1998. He has a strong background in process improvement, system design, project management, business effectiveness and change management. Phil was the Programme Manager for Socrates, the first national disability services information system in New Zealand.
Phil is a Project Management Professional (PMP) and a certified PRINCE2 practitioner, able to lead projects using the PRINCE2 methodology. Phil is also a registered Gateway reviewer. Projects Phil has undertaken for Hague include HRIS implementation, CRM and workflow systems, a budgeting system, a loans system, server replacement, student management systems, process mapping ; reviews of information systems; and a range of financial management consulting, auditing and organisational restructuring assignments for public and private sector clients. Before he joined Hague, Phil held management roles at Wrightson Ltd, and Baycorp Holdings Ltd and held analytical, project and management positions at the Department for Courts, the Department of Justice, Department of Conservation and the New Zealand Forest Service. Phil holds a Master of Management degree from Massey University, a post graduate Diploma in Business Administration from Massey University, a Bachelor of Arts (Economic History) from Victoria University and a Certificate in Statistics from Wellington Polytechnic. Phil is a past director of the New Zealand Credit and Finance Institute and has been a director of other companies. Phil is a Certified Management Consultant and a member of the Institute of Management Consultants of New Zealand. Phil is a member of the Project Management Institute of NZ.
Jacquie Hamer
 Jacquie was the founding director of Hague Consulting. With her background in market research and business planning and analysis, Jacquie has a particular focus on helping clients make informed business decisions through a commonsense approach. Jacquie has also organised several successful seminars and conferences, particularly in the fields of emergency management and earthquake engineering.
Before she established Hague in March 1998, Jacquie was a director of NovaTech (NZ) Ltd - a highly successful consultancy business specialising in feasibility studies, business planning and market research. Jacquie also worked for several years for the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) in the areas of international science and technology transfer. Jacquie has a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Victoria University. Jacquie is a member of the Market Research Society of New Zealand.
Izolda Kazem-zadeh
 Izolda returned to New Zealand from Australia in 2008. She is a project management specialist with successful multinational public, private and non governmental organisation experience. This experience has been in risk management, financial governance, efficiency and effectiveness reviews and forensic investigation, as well as system, operational and financial reviews. She leads effectively in change environments and manages board and interdepartmental relationships to produce timely and efficient implementations.
She has consulted in justice, treasury, education, health, disability, insurance and local government in Australia, United States and New Zealand. Izolda has held management and consulting roles at Midland Regional Health Authority, Tasmanian Treasury, University of California, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Aetna Life and Casualty, Blue Cross of California, Queensland Department of Education, Queensland Department of Justice and Attorney General, Macarthur Coal. Endeavour Foundation and Hamilton and Porirua City Councils as well as ACC. Izolda holds a Master in Management Studies and a Post-Graduate degree in Accounting and Finance from University of Waikato as well as Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Accounting from California State University in Los Angeles. She is a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors and has been a member of its Small Practice Interest Group since early 2010. Izolda volunteers as Board member of three NGOs and was invited to become the member of the Hutt Valley District Health Board Local Leadership Group in 2009.
Iain Matheson
 Iain Matheson is Hague Consulting’s research and evaluation specialist associate. Iain is the Principal Consultant with Matheson Associates Ltd - a Wellington-based management, research and learning consultancy that works across the community, education, health and welfare sectors in NZ and overseas. As well as being a generic management consultant, Iain has built up particular expertise in the area of research and evaluation. He has successfully undertaken research, monitoring and evaluation assignments with many NZ social sector government and non-government organisations, regularly gives talks to professionals on research and evaluation matters and now teaches an evaluation paper to postgraduate students on the Massey University social sector evaluation research and public policy programmes.
Before becoming a management consultant in 2004, Iain held a high profile senior management position with Child, Youth and Family Services and prior to that a range of Government managerial roles in the areas of policy, strategic planning, regulation and operations.
Iain is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) and still maintains his Scottish registration as a social worker. He has postgraduate qualifications in social sector evaluation research from Massey University, social services management from the University of Edinburgh and social work from what is now the University of the West of Scotland; he is also currently undertaking a part-time doctorate at the University of Otago. His professional affiliations include the American Evaluation Association, Australasian Evaluation Society, Aotearoa/New Zealand Evaluation Association and the Institute of Management Consultants New Zealand.
Bob McNeill
 Bob is an experienced business analyst and technology consultant, with 16 years in the software industry. With a background in systems analysis and business software leadership, Bob is ideally placed to offer technical and business consultancy to Hague's clients.
After a PhD in Glasgow, Bob moved to the Open University's Centre for Educational Software as a software designer. He was then recruited as a senior designer to the BBC's renowned Interactive Media Unit in the late 1990's, working on multimedia, Internet and early concepts for digital tv. He visited New Zealand in 1998, and became a Visiting Fellow at the University of Otago, in the School of Business. He spent the next three years running the web team at e-Media (an Internet start-up) in Dunedin, before moving to a senior software architecture role at New Zealand Trade & Enterprise in Wellington (the NZ Government's Economic Development and Trade body). Many Wellington and Auckland software industry people know him from this wide-ranging role. Bob left NZTE, for which he retains much affection, in 2008 and now consults on business software technologies, where he is able to combine his technical expertise with his experience in business analysis to advise organisations on the wisdom, or otherwise, of potential solutions.
Mark Seidelin
 Mark is an experienced software developer with over 25 years in the software industry. This experience has been in varous areas of business both in the UK and here in NZ - and has encompassed analysis, design and development of applications. Mark has held roles at software houses both here and in the UK as well as roles in Banking, Telecomms and Geoverment organisations. More recently, Mark has specalised in the area of business intelligence, enabling businesses to build databases to develop analytical and reporting capabilities on their data.
Chris Webb
Chris has extensive experience in how to apply technology to both solve business problems and enhance business performance. From a background in systems development and analysis Chris has created a career via project and programme management where he has worked closely with many of New Zealand’s largest organizations. His strengths include; translating business strategies into executable change programs and then making these a reality; leading complex technology programs across multiple areas which include business and process change; focusing on areas of a business which are underperforming then putting in place and delivering improvement plans.
Chris has made a career of providing that key linkage between an organisation’s aspirations and its internal capability to deliver them; through process, technology and organisational change. He has led projects to implement core banking systems, led the delivery of a new payments solution across the industry and worked with government agencies to enhance their service performance. As an executive leader Chris has also led significant transformational change within large organisations.
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