Shawn Beck

Executive Director

A founding Director of Pencarrow, Shawn has been involved in private equity for over 13 years, following a successful background in investment banking with HRL Morrison & Co. During his time at Pencarrow, Shawn has managed investments across a range of industries and themes, including specialty manufacturing, retail, food, transport, tourism and public to private investments.

Shawn currently sits on the boards of Restaurant Brands, Eastern Equities Corporation (Farmers Transport and Rapid Roadfreighters), 360 Discovery and  Pacific Horizon.

Nigel Bingham

Executive Director

Nigel joined Pencarrow in 2005 following a successful 18 year career in investment banking including the nine most recent years as a Partner with Cameron & Company. Prior to that Nigel was an executive with Fay, Richwhite & Co.

Nigel brings extensive experience to Pencarrow from his role in leading and managing numerous mergers and acquisitions on behalf of clients throughout his investment banking career. More recently Nigel has worked with a number of private equity clients on transactions across a range of sizes and industries.

Nigel is currently a director of Phil & Teds, NZ Crane Group, Rishworth Aviation, Home Ideas Group and BJ Ball.

Rod Gethen

Executive Director

Rod is an investment professional with over 20 years of direct investment, valuation, international corporate advisory and restructuring experience.

Since commencing his career with Pencarrow in 1994, Rod has managed and led a number of portfolio company investments across a variety of industries including plastics manufacturing, food, air freight, aircraft engineering, apparel and outdoor equipment. He has structured several portfolio company exits including the trade sales of Strahl, Fieldair and Arthur Ellis. He has also undertaken the successful restructuring of several portfolio companies.

Rod is a director of portfolio companies Donaghys, Ace Rentals, 360 Discovery, NZ Crane Group and BJ Ball.

Raina DeLillo

Associate Director

Raina joined Pencarrow in 2005 from a similar role with Macquarie Bank in Australia, where she spent the past five years involved in a number of venture capital transactions for Macquarie Technology Ventures, as well as corporate finance transactions across the technology and life sciences sectors.

Raina has been actively involved in all of Pencarrow’s new investments in the AMP Pencarrow Private Equity Fund.  Raina’s role at Pencarrow includes the assessment of investment opportunities, valuation, due diligence, transaction structuring and execution as well as ongoing support of portfolio companies.

Raina is a director of Home Ideas Group.

Craig Getz

Investment Analyst

Craig joined Pencarrow in September 2009, following two years with Ernst & Young as a corporate finance analyst. Craig's role at Pencarrow includes assistance with due diligence, financial modelling and valuation for new investments and strategic projects within the portfolio.