Sven Pannell

As a Director in the KPMG Enterprise Advisory team, Sven has over 18-years’ experience helping businesses to grow and improve their performance. He joined KPMG in 2015 to help build the national Enterprise Advisory practice and is a leading figure in developing the frameworks and approaches KPMG uses to help New Zealand private businesses develop and execute their strategic plans. Sven works alongside an ever-growing range of private businesses, as their continuing strategy and commercial advisor. He works across a variety of business sizes, stages, sectors, and markets.

As a facilitator, Sven has been invited to lead the Springboard Trust’s activity for developing strategy for schools, facilitating their Strategic Leadership programme and is a highest rated facilitator across New Zealand of their volunteer network of expert strategy professionals. He also worked closely with the Pacific Business Trust to facilitate strategy engagements for Pasifika enterprises, and is regularly asked to speak across New Zealand on strategy, strategic execution and leadership.

With a background in law and business, Sven’s career has spanned management consulting, general management, sales and capital raising roles in both the private and public sector.