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What is Capex® ? Capex® is a management consulting and software development company. Founded in 1997 the company has one goal – to provide our clients with the best available strategic advice and systems to manage capital resources.
Each Capex team member is an expert in their respective field. We provide a unique blend of finance, operations, project management and information technology expertise. To complement our small group, Capex also uses contract consultants on an as needed basis.
Every person representing Capex® is chosen because they have a particular set of experience and skills of value to our clients and the solutions we provide on their behalf.
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Tony Street is a leading Australasian strategist and consultant on capital expenditure management. A chartered accountant by profession, he is well experienced in large-scale, high level corporate capex management and continues now as a consultant at the leading edge of developing world best practice in disciplined capex management.
He has had much hands-on experience at senior management level in capital intensive industries. For example, in a former role with NZ Dairy Group, he was directly involved in all project management and capital expenditure decision making. During an intense eight years, in which the group undertook several large scale dairy industry amalgamation and expansion projects, Tony evaluated more than 4,000 proposals for capital expenditure.
A University of Waikato researcher who then compared the capital management processes of many New Zealand companies concluded that NZ Dairy Group was at the forefront. Some of Tony’s work at the time was published internationally in a text on the subject of capital expenditure planning and decision making.
In 1995 Tony entered into management consultancy, forming a company called Capital Expenditure Consulting Ltd. In the next two years he assisted a large and diverse range of clients in both public and private sectors. Then in 1997 Tony formed Capex Services Ltd with Peter Mackay. Among other clients, they helped 12 of New Zealand’s 23 public hospitals with their capital management systems and with several large scale projects in the face of severe funding restraints then operating in the public health sector.
Meanwhile increasing competitive pressures in the corporate field have also obliged corporates to find better and more disciplined ways of capex management. Capex Consulting was and still is instrumental in achieving much of this necessary change.
Then in 2001 came a further step. Tony and a small team of IT professionals designed and developed a software application – now known as Capex® Value Analyser. Since its inception this valuable software product has been continuously upgraded to meet the varied and ongoing needs of medium to large sized corporates. Consequently today the Capex® Value Analyser stands as a world class calibre product at the very cutting edge of best capex practice.
Importantly, use of the best available software, the Capex® Value Analyser, is needed as corporate capital outlay decisions become even more crucial.
A recognised leading Australasian practitioner and strategist in capital resource management, Tony has the following areas of special expertise:
- Developing capital expenditure management systems and software
- Project management and project accounting
- Establishing capex procurement systems
- Developing innovative capital investment opportunities with fast pay-backs
- Development and presentation of training systems to support the above disciplines
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Peter Mackay has a background in the New Zealand dairy industry. He has had extensive involvement in capital projects within capital intensive industries over the last 25 years. Peter has held various senior executive positions, including the position of Senior Executive of Operations. He has also held the position of General Manager of a Waikato based coal mining and development subsidiary of New Zealand Dairy Group.
Peter has also held the position of Regional Manager of Horticulture New Zealand, and Manufacturing Manager and Director of Triodent in Katikati – one of NZ’s fastest growing exporters.
Back in 1997 Peter entered the field of management consulting, forming Capex Services Ltd in association with Tony Street. They both saw a need to assist the public health sector in the area of capital expenditure management with their complementary skill sets as capex practitioners. They then went on to consult for 12 of the public hospitals in this area, as well as a large and diverse range of corporate clients. This consultancy experience was invaluable in terms of developing concepts for Capex® Value Analyser software. They also developed an internet database to promote the marketing of industrial plant and equipment. It was the largest in Australasia at the time and was developed 4 years before E-Bay.
Peter has assisted a broad range of clients in the manufacturing, mining, forestry, and project management sectors. Many of these clients are in capital intensive industries.
Since the development of the Capex® Value Analyser software 9 years ago, Peter has played a key role in working with corporate clients to understand their needs and to facilitate on-going enhancements to the software.
- Project management and capital expenditure management systems
- Corporate Governance at Board level in private and public sectors
- Development of strategies for the management of change
- Management of the purchase of land, buildings & equipment
- Development of procurement systems
- Feasibility studies and asset disposals
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Ian Potts holds a New Zealand Certificate in Data Processing. He has 19 years experience as an analyst and programmer in various roles in the banking, dairy, tertiary and information technology development sectors.
Ian has an intimate knowledge of database applications within medium to large organizations.
- Visual Basic and M/S Excel programming
- Installation and development of Oracle databases and applications
- Development and implementation of Client / Server applications
MSC Computer Science
Azmi holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Western Michigan University in the US and a Bachelor of Computer Science degree also from the US.
Azmi is a former senior lecturer in graphics and multimedia at the University Tenaga Nasional in Malaysia. He has had 5 years experience in the development of accounting packages and specialized software for freight industries in the USA.
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP) software
- Developing multi-dimensional CAD software
- Multimedia and graphical user interface applications