Phocas: From Startup to Global Saas

Founded in 2001, Phocas is a team of passionate professionals committed to helping people feel good about their data. A certified B corp, Phocas serve over 2,300 companies and roughly 30,000 people who rely on our software to complement ERP functionality and manage business operations.
Our team of 300 people spread across the UK, Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and North America live by our company values: “fun, fulfilling, forever.” Phocas changes the way people think and work and makes it easier for them to be decisive and operate with confidence.

Come, hear about lessons from the Phocas Journey from Head of Product, Gary Jensen, as well as Product Managers Narmadhaa and Bill.

Topic: Why we chose to diversify and the challenge of taking a new product to market from a multi-product corporate by Gary Jensen

Gary Jensen is passionate about scaling the NZ technology industry, is active in the NZ angel investment network and regularly advises and mentors high-growth tech companies and individuals leveraging more than 20 years of taking new products to market. Throughout his career, Gary has focused on new product creation in competitive global markets, based in New Zealand. Products have covered a wide breadth of industries and markets from consumer-facing, small business revenue generation, disruptive US enterprise software and more recently Financial Planning and Analytics as Head of Product for the global software group Phocas Software.

Topic: Moving fast while building right by Bill Stalker

Bill Stalker is the product manager for Budgets and Forecasts at Phocas. With an interest in early-stage startups, Bill has built and sold businesses and has also been a co-founder of a venture-backed startup.