Our people are your network

We bring together professionals from diverse disciplines, with complementary skills, to provide distinctly local solutions.

Get to know Kordia

A rich history of keeping New Zealander's connected

If you phone us, we don’t put you through to some remote call centre based overseas. Kordia’s engineers work alongside the sales team and, as a result, you get instant access to the right people who can answer your questions, and fast. In fact, 75 percent of all technical queries are resolved by the person who first answered the phone. It’s this level of service, combined with our in-depth knowledge of business-critical services, that enables us to be trusted experts to our customers.

Clients regularly refer to our engineers, project managers, and salespeople as “experts”, “trusted advisers”, “our secret weapon” and more.

About Kordia 1

We listen

We know every business faces unique challenges, and that your definition of ‘mission-critical’ may not be the same as ours. When you work with Kordia, you work with a team of experts who are committed to ensuring your business has the right technology behind it to succeed.

Not just now, but in the future. Our philosophy is simple. We listen to our customers, we engage with them, and we always strive to exceed their expectations. We call this the Kordia Experience, or ‘TKE’. We genuinely care about our customers, so it’s no surprise our NPS score regularly sits at an average of 50+.

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We're Reliable

For any business downtime is a word nobody wants to hear, and that’s why network reliability is so crucial. Kordia operates a network that spans the length and breadth of the country – from Kaitaia to Invercargill and the Chatham Islands - monitored 24/7 365 days per year from our National Operations Centre (NOC) and serviced by our own in-house team of field technicians and engineers.

Our simple and scalable network infrastructure makes it easy for our customers to add services and applications without complex upgrades or design changes. Kordia also has handovers with all the major access providers, as well as connections into all the major data centres and a number of global destinations.

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We're experts

When you work with Kordia, you automatically tap into the expertise of a team of more than 450 individuals – all of whom are passionate about technology. From technicians and engineers, to network architects, security analysts, cloud migration experts and more.

This team works collaboratively with our customers to ensure they are getting the most out of their technology, that the right fail safes and backups are in place, and that they are operating in a way that meets any legal requirements – particularly when it comes to data privacy. From the design and build of complex communications systems, to activating IoT solutions in orchards, and offering greater visibility with SD-Wan  – our team has done it all.

 

 

 

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You can go to any one of our customers and they will tell you the same story. That dealing with Kordia is a really pleasant experience.
Andrew Crawford
Head of Sales

Meet our Leadership Team

Neil Livingston

Interim Group CEO

Catherine Laskey

Group CFO

Paulette Cotter

Chief People & Sustainability Officer

Glen White

Executive GM, CYBER SECURITY

Emily Reeve

Executive GM, Legal & Risk

Brent La Frenchie

Executive GM, KORDIA SOLUTIONS

Jason Fullerton-Smith

Chief Operating Officer

Craig Williams

Chief Sales & Marketing Officer

Aaron Olphert

Chief Digital Officer

Driving technology, innovation and resilience for New Zealand for over 60 years

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1965

Large lattice towers are completed and begin providing television broadcasts across the nation. These towers still operate as key network sites today, carrying a wide range of services including Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT), Digital Microwave Radio (DMR) and other critical communications.
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1982

Stereo radio revolutionises the mass music experience with the introduction of Frequency Modulated (FM) broadcasts. Kordia's tower network is used to transmit these radio services throughout the country.
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1993

Kordia begins delivery of New Zealand’s maritime safety of life at sea radio communications and the first Maritime Operations Centre is established in NZ. Kordia will go on to build additional radio sites and take on the monitoring and maintenance of the maritime VHF network.
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1993

Kordia assists with the rollout of 2G Cellular networks in New Zealand.
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2002

Kordia is contracted by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority to deliver radio safety of life communications services for Australia, and opens a Maritime Operations Centre in Canberra.
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2009

Kordia enters a new era, moving from wholesale, broadcast and telecommunications to serving NZ businesses directly.
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2011

Full services maintained during the Christchurch earthquake. In the same year Kordia faultlessly delivers all 48 games of the Rugby World cup.
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2013

Kordia helps New Zealand complete its transition to digital TV. The last analogue TV signals in New Zealand are switched off at Kordia’s Waiatarua site.
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2013

Kordia's 'Best Connected' strategy to ensure direct connectivity for businesses to major public & private clouds begins. Kordia is the first in NZ to connect to AWS, followed by ExpressRoute, Google and Azure over subsequent years.
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2015

Kordia enters the cyber security market with the acquisition of Aura Information Security.
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2017

Kordia launches “TKE” (the Kordia Experience), our customer experience programme to deliver better customer outcomes.
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2019

Kordia builds critical AM radio infrastructure in the Pacific for the ABC, including replacing corroded masts in Samoa and Vanuatu to restore radio networks.
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2019

The 5G rollout begins, promising to revolutionise the way we connect, work and live. Kordia play a critical role helping businesses leverage 5G, particularly with their in-building coverage.
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2020

Kordia boosts its cloud capability and begins offering specialist services to assist customers with digital transformation and cloud technologies. Kordia expands its managed cyber security services. This sees Kordia open a Cyber Defence Operations centre in Auckland, a 24/7 x 365 operations centre that is ISO27001 certified.
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2021

Kordia grows its capabilities in Managed IT and Modern Workplace through acquisition of an IT service provider.
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2022

Kordia consolidates its recently acquired businesses under a single brand. Kordia now becomes known in the market as a cloud, cyber security and connectivity brand, in addition to its legacy infrastructure services.
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2023

Extreme weather events ravage NZ. High sites and infrastructure withstand the major impacts of the storms. Kordia leverages its Digital Microwave Radio (DMR) infrastructure to support other telcos.
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