About Us

Stuart is founder and CEO of Modica Group. Over the last 30 years he has established, grown and exited multiple tech companies ahead of the curve and the market. From creating one of the first ISP’s in 1992 to building one of the early web development companies and exiting during the dot com boom, Stuart has been at the forefront of technology innovation. Leveraging experience with web to mobile applications in the mid 90’s Modica rapidly grew its messaging platform as a service across the globe and is now pivoting into mobile payment, IoT, AI, security, and advanced analytics.

Stuart consults widely on technology strategy for government and financial organisations and has extensive experience capital raising and managing high growth technology companies.

Pauline has over 18 years experience in IT operations and project management. With proven expertise in scheduling, resource management, organisation planning, operational management and client services, she is the ideal person to be at the helm of Modica’s ever-growing empire.

Pauline has been working for Modica Group since 2005 and leads Modica's operational functions by overseeing the teams involved in platform infrastructure and software development, and owning the product space.

Ben Seymour has an extensive background in Media, Finance, and Manufacturing industries, most recently having spent over 10 years within the Telecommunication industry.

Here at Modica, Ben is leading the global Sales and Marketing teams. Ben is responsible for delivering messaging solutions to assist Modica’s customers and partners.

Ben was previously Associate Director, Mobility Applications at Optus, leading product, sales, marketing teams as well as managing the Optus Mobility Partner ecosystem.

Elena is a Chartered Accountant with CAANZ and has been part of Modica's leadership team from November 2016. She is passionate about supporting innovative, fast growing and hard working kiwi businesses to execute on their strategic vision and take on new heights.

In her role as Modica's Group CFO & Company Secretary, Elena manages the company's finance team, provides financial oversight to the stakeholders, helps ensure day-to-day processes are running-smoothly, funders are kept well-informed the Group's tax and statutory compliance obligations are met.

Bruno has 20 years experience in senior technology roles in a range of industries in New Zealand and Brazil. Over that time he has developed expertise managing teams to deliver across software development, engineering, infrastructure, solutions architecture, and R&D. Most recently Bruno was Managing Director of cloud computing innovator Catalyst Cloud.

In his role as CTO, he is responsible for ensuring our technology is actively driving us towards our strategic and financial business goals. The key functions reporting to Bruno include solutions architecture, software engineering, cloud platforms, infrastructure operations, and technical support.

Dale has a wide and varied background involving Finance, Systems, Programme Management and Marketing as well as having led a number of technology-related businesses in large and medium-sized organisations. He has worked across a range of industries including Technology, Telecommunications, Energy, Finance and  Banking.

In his role as COO, he is responsible for ensuring the Modica Group’s high-level operations are actively driving us towards our strategic and financial business goals, besides working every day to bring an exceptional experience to our Modica Group staff.