Profile of Adèle McLay
Adèle is a Fellow Chartered Accountant, New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants. She also holds a Bachelor's degree in Accountancy from Victoria University in Wellington, NZ.
Adèle is a New Zealander who has 20 years experience in international business including banking, finance, corporate transformations, human resources, property investment, management and development, and general business consulting.
Adèle divides her time between New Zealand and Europe supporting her New Zealand clients with the development/management of their UK/European interests; and working with her New Zealand focused clients.
As well, Adèle holds various directorships in Europe and New Zealand, including Carlyle Venture Capital Limited and Motivated Exchange Limited.
Adèle's career/personal highlights include:
- Developing a significant private property portfolio in the UK and NZ.
- Undertaking a 10 month major business transformation project for NZ's largest corporate, which over time resulted in significant $M and headcount savings for the company.
- Providing general business and human resources consulting and project management advice to a number of leading New Zealand companies in the food and property development sectors.
- Leading McLay & Company to being a highly regarded senior executive recruitment and consulting company in an extremely competitive industry. Key clients included many of New Zealand's major corporates.
- As a director, revisioning and substantially restructuring the Auckland YWCA to create a strong, financially viable hostel that operates at 100 percent occupancy and which generates significant profits for the Auckland YWCA to enable it to develop its community programmes. This also included creating strong governance, management and financial foundations that will support the Auckland YWCA's growth in its market.
- As a director, leading the restructuring of the YWCA Aotearoa (National Executive and National Office) towards having strong governance, management and financial structures that will enable it to be a highly accountable and leading advocate and "voice" of women's issues in New Zealand.
- Leading the 2000 New Zealand Variety Club 10th anniversary Bash (major fundraising event) which raised more money than the event had raised in any earlier years - raised $1 million (net) through sponsorship, entry fees and other fundraising initiatives.