Richard Hansen’s appointment follows resignation of iViis co-founder and chief executive for 20 years, Nick Shier.
Richard Hansen.
After more than 20 years as co-founder and iViis’s chief executive, Nick Shier has announced his retirement from the position, effective October 10, 2022.
Richard Hansen has been named as the new iViis CEO, located at the company’s headquarters in Christchurch, effective October 10, 2022. Hansen, who has spent the past nine years directing portfolio services at Computer Concepts Ltd, joins iViis to grow revenue for the low-code application platform service provider and scale the services team.
“Richard brings great knowledge and experience into the business,” Shier said. “With Richard at the helm, iViis moves from an entrepreneurial leadership to a more structured, growth-oriented leadership style. Richard has extensive knowledge of the industry in which we operate.”
Hansen has worked with iViis on previous projects and said: “When the opportunity came up to succeed Nick, the chance to work with such an outstanding team and technology was really intriguing.
“Low code platforms are a strategic focus for organisations seeking to overcome talent constraints and respond to today’s rapidly developing challenges,” Hansen said.
“With iViis’s heritage, the platform is very mature, client-tested, and able to implement solutions very quickly from a wide functional base.”
As for the company’s services team, Hansen said his first few weeks would be focused on identifying constraints to scaling and planning to overcome them.
“Scaling to meet demand is going to be an interesting challenge and will require building the team and introducing even more automation.”
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