Who we are
Who we are
We are legal clarity specialists. Creating clarity from the law's confusion is what we do. It’s not easy.
We all have a passion for helping people. By giving organisations and their people clarity about the law we’re helping them to do things right.
Meet the team
Jackie Grimes
Chief Operating Officer
LLB(Hons), BA
Rubeena Parker
Head of Content Development
LLB, B Bus Sc (Hons)
Christina MacLeod
Head of Customer Experience
LLB, BCom
Alisha Jackson
ComplyWatch Lead
LLB (Hons), BA
Antonia Di Maio
Senior Associate, Content Development Team
LLB (Hons), BSocSci
Kate McCormack
Business Support Manager
BA
Gayle Hammersley
Senior Coordinator, Customer Experience Team
BA
Steph Randle
Legal Consultant, Customer Experience Team
LLB, BA
Troy Setefano
Junior Delivery Manager
David Woodnorth
Founder and Leader
LLB, BA, LLM (Hons)
Jackie Grimes
Chief Operating Officer
LLB(Hons), BA
Rubeena Parker
Head of Content Development
LLB, B Bus Sc (Hons)
Christina MacLeod
Head of Customer Experience
LLB, BCom
Alisha Jackson
ComplyWatch Lead
LLB (Hons), BA
Antonia Di Maio
Senior Associate, Content Development Team
LLB (Hons), BSocSci
Kate McCormack
Business Support Manager
BA
Gayle Hammersley
Senior Coordinator, Customer Experience Team
BA
Steph Randle
Legal Consultant, Customer Experience Team
LLB, BA
Troy Setefano
Junior Delivery Manager
How we roll
Simplicity- driven
- Making the universe a slightly less complex place
- The best at making the law clear for people
People- centered
- Valued, cultivating our genius, and having some fun
- Achieving our best balance of work and life outside work
- Treating others the way we like to be treated
- Exercising empathy in our work
Grounded achievers
- Getting good shit done!
- Confident, humble, and authentic
- Gritty when the work gets challenging
Autonomous collaborators
- Finding the sweet spot between individual empowerment and collective collaboration
- Sharing our knowledge, learning, ideas, and questions
Forever innovating
- Always asking, how can we defeat this complexity?
- Tapping into our team’s collective genius from the start
- Applying people-centred elegantly simple design
Building community
A strong customer community has been part of ComplyWith’s DNA since day one.
After all, the idea for ComplyWith came from our first customers.
Unplugged
Unplugged
This annual customer event at Te Papa started in 2016 and has grown into NZ’s biggest legal compliance event.
With high-calibre speakers, lots of networking opportunities, engaging agenda and fun vibe, Unplugged is not to be missed.
Regional User Group meetings
Regional User Group meetings
In 2023 we resumed running User Group meeting around the country with meetings in 6 cities, and we’re planning more for the future.
Social responsibility
Our core business is helping people stay out of trouble. This feels good.
We want to share that goodness and are committed to being an ethical and socially responsible business.
Community
As we grow, so has our capability to help charities.
We do this by providing the ComplyWith tool and our services at a significantly reduced cost to over 10 charities such as Mary Potter Hospice, Save the Children, Plunket and Wellington Zoo.
Environment
We’re reducing our carbon footprint by walking and pedalling to most meetings in Wellington. We’ve also greatly reduced the amount of air travel we take by running implementations via video meetings rather than in-person.
By providing office keep cups for morning coffee, we’re saving at least 1,600 disposable cups a year!
Wellbeing
With many of our team coming from the legal profession, we’ve experienced the wrong end of the work-life balance spectrum.
At ComplyWith we work to different paradigm – we value energy and focus, not timesheet filling.
Almost half of our team enjoys flexible part-time work arrangements.
How it all started
How it all started
A problem looking for a solution.
Sometimes the best products are those built from the ground up to fix a problem being faced by a group of future customers. This is ComplyWith’s story.
Back in 2005, a diverse bunch of CFOs were discussing a common problem: how to make sure their organisations had an effective legal compliance programme when all that was on offer was bulky manuals or Excel tables. The suggested solution was to team up a lawyer and a software developer to build a tool to actually help their organisations do things right. Software developer Steve Marriott was introduced to then-lawyer David Woodnorth.
The CFOs set up a steering committee to make sure the product was what their businesses really needed. As a result, most of Steve and David’s ‘coolest’ ideas ended up in the bin! 18 months later the first version of ComplyWith was born. People liked it, and steady uptake saw the ‘project’ evolve into the flourishing legal compliance business it is today. The steering committee morphed into a customer user group, and our user groups remains a very important part of ComplyWith’s DNA today.
