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Need A Nerd is an onsite computer and technology support organisation for small to medium business and residential customers.

Need A Nerd was formed in 2004 to fill a gap in the market that was as yet unmet – our experiences and feedback showed us that IT service providers in New Zealand prior to Need A Nerd were providing inconsistent service, varying levels of expertise and limited after-sales care.  There was an urgent need for a responsive, timely, trusted, plain language home and business technology service.

The Nerds who provide the services are highly-trained Nerds who can perform any technical task for business. If a particular task is difficult, the specialist technicians harness the capabilities of the entire Need A Nerd group via our central Nerd Brain.

Need A Nerd was founded on providing market leading levels of customer service; this is one of our primary points of difference in the market.  Since inception, Need A Nerd has invested in centralized systems to achieve this consistency of the Customer experience nationwide.

Need A Nerd was the winner of the Hawkes Bay Chamber of Commerce Emerging Business Award.

Need A Nerd Directors

Adam Dunkerley – Nerd Creator

Adam founded Need A Nerd in 2004 and has been working in the business fulltime since 2006. Since committing his time and energy to General Manager, Need A Nerd has enjoyed six-fold growth and won the Hawke’s Bay Chamber of Commerce Emerging Business Award.

Prior to this Adam was Pharmacy Acquisition Manager for Radius Pharmacy Group and a member of the Senior Management Team, General Manager of The Pharmacy Ltd and worked Telecom companies in London.

It was in his capacity as Acquisition Manager that Adam saw first hand the frustrations of non techie people trying to set up IT systems in new and existing businesses and decided there was a major unmet need for user-friendly mobile tech support and Need A Nerd was born.  Adam has a BBS from Massey University.

Chris O’Reilly – Nerd Nurturer

Chris has extensive experience in senior management positions in some of the world’s most successful and well known organisations. Most recently he was General Manager of KFC NZ and prior to that Acting CEO and CEO Designate of CitiBank Global Consumer Banking.

Chris’ strengths lie in business strategy, franchise and corporate management and it is this expertise that made him a previous winner of the New Zealand Young Executive of the Year. Chris has a Bachelor of Science (BSc) from Canterbury University and a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from Canterbury University.