vCIO · Governance · Board Advisory · NZ

Technology leadership, governance, and strategic advice for NZ organisations.

The technology decisions facing most mid-sized organisations have changed significantly. Cost pressures, new compliance obligations, and a fast-moving capability landscape mean the questions landing on boards and executive teams are genuinely different from three years ago. PMR Consulting works at that level — helping leadership make confident decisions about where to invest, what to govern, and how to move.

15+
Years advising NZ boards and executive teams on technology strategy
$10M–$100M+
Turnover range of organisations we work with across government, health, NFP, and private sectors
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Principal. When you engage PMR Consulting, you work directly with Rick Rainey. No exceptions.

Most organisations have IT.
Few have a technology strategy.

Understanding how data, AI, and digital capability will define your competitive position over the next three years is a leadership question — answered in partnership with your team. So is understanding how to control the risk and cost of the technology and infrastructure your organisation already depends on. PMR Consulting works at that level, helping leadership make confident decisions about where to invest, what to govern, and how to move.

Strategic leadership.
Specialist services.

Most technology decisions at board and executive level fall into one of three conversations: understanding and rationalising the cost and risk of your current technology foundation; making the right calls on platforms and vendors; and identifying where emerging capability creates genuine business advantage. PMR Consulting is built around all three. Most engagements begin with one. Many grow from there.

The strategic layer

Strategic Advisory & Fractional vCIO

Your organisation no longer needs a technology manager. It needs a technology leader — one who governs the present and guides the future. The fractional vCIO brings executive-level capability to the table. The Technology Playbook gives it direction.

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The Playbook
Technology Playbook & ISSP

A living plan across three domains — Infrastructure, Security, and Innovation. Practical enough to guide weekly decisions. Substantial enough to present to a board. The thread that runs through every PMR engagement.

Digital Capability & Enablement
Data, AI & Emerging Technology

Systems that don't integrate. Data nobody trusts. AI moving faster than governance can keep up with. PMR Consulting assesses where your organisation sits on the readiness curve and builds a practical, governed path forward.

Specialist services
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The independent view

Technology Assessment & IT Audit

Before good technology decisions can be made, you need an honest picture of where you stand. Independent advice — no reseller agreements, no commissions, no agenda.

  • Current state review — applications, infrastructure, vendors, and spend
  • Invest / maintain / divest analysis of the technology portfolio
  • Cloud and SaaS configuration review
  • Vendor and MSP contract review
  • Independent vendor risk assessment ahead of major platform decisions
  • Board-ready technology risk report
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The governance layer

Security & Compliance Governance

The move to cloud solutions relocates cyber risk — to configuration, identity, and the vendors you depend on. PMR Consulting builds the governance layer leadership can actually use.

  • Cyber governance framework for boards and executives
  • Security reporting translated into business language
  • Identity and access management review
  • Cloud configuration and vendor access controls review
  • Third party and supply chain risk management
  • NZ Privacy Act, GDPR, NIST CSF advisory
  • AI use policy and data governance
  • Incident response preparedness
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The accountability layer

Vendor & MSP Management

Your MSP recommends solutions they earn margin on. PMR Consulting has no vendor relationships and no commissions. Our only interest is whether your partners are delivering what they promised.

  • MSP performance review — independent of the MSP's own reporting
  • SLA assessment, benchmarking, and contract renegotiation
  • Tender and procurement advisory — structured, independent, defensible
  • IS project governance and oversight
  • Project rescue and remediation
  • Transition management — moving between providers without disruption
  • Application portfolio rationalisation
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The advisor, not the firm.

Rick Rainey has held executive and board-level roles across a wide range of NZ organisations — as CIO, CISO, Chair, and acting CEO. He has led technology strategy, digital transformation, and governance for organisations from $10M to $100M+ in turnover, across government, health, NFP, and private sectors.

His background spans Orion Health, Fronde Systems, and Logica CMG, alongside over a decade of direct board experience. He has restructured IT teams across multiple industries, contracted as acting CIO, CTO, and acting CEO, and delivered complex projects at scale — including multi-campus technology rollouts across DHB environments. He knows what good looks like from the inside, not just from the governance report.

Beyond technology, Rick is periodically called on by boards and CEOs for broader organisational advisory work — governance structure, strategy, and executive leadership. It is not a service PMR markets. It is what happens when a working relationship reaches a certain depth.

PMR Consulting operates as a fractional advisory practice — not a firm. When you engage PMR, you work directly with Rick. No junior staff. No outsourcing. No exceptions.

PMR uses modern tools to work faster and more thoroughly than a larger firm would. Every output is verified, edited, and owned by Rick — not cut and pasted. That is the same standard applied to every client engagement.

"When you engage PMR Consulting, you engage Rick. That's the point."

— Rick Rainey, Principal, PMR Consulting
Rick Rainey, Principal, PMR Consulting
Rick Rainey
Principal · PMR Consulting
15+ years as vCIO, CISO, and Board advisor
Executive roles: CIO, CISO, Chair, acting CEO
Orion Health · Fronde Systems · Logica CMG
Government · Health · NFP · Private sector
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Thinking on technology,
leadership, and change.

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GenAI & Consulting

Why a Consultant in a GenAI World

Yes, I use AI. So does every consultant worth engaging. The question is what you bring to the conversation before the AI touches it — and what judgment you apply after. The work doesn't disappear. It concentrates.

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The future of knowledge work

A Practical View on What's Actually Changing

The conversation tends toward extremes — breathless enthusiasm or displacement anxiety. What's actually happening is more interesting and more gradual. AI raises the floor for everyone. What it cannot do is replace the ceiling.

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Organisations we've worked with

Odyssey
Higher Ground
ChildFund
Manawanui
Ministry
of Health
Health & Disability
Commissioner
Waitematā DHB
Haumaru Housing
Habit Health
Competenz
Selwyn
Foundation
BankLink
Ziwi
Sport
New Zealand
Manuka Health
NZ Cricket
Trade Tools
Alexandra Park
NZ Football
Active
Southland
Sport
Canterbury
Netball
New Zealand

Most engagements start with a conversation.

The first step is a straightforward, no-obligation discussion about your situation — where you are, where you want to go, and whether PMR Consulting is the right fit. In most cases that conversation alone will leave you with a clearer picture of your technology landscape and the right questions to be asking.

Based in Auckland. Working across New Zealand.

Contact details

rickr@pmrc.co.nz 021 801 545 in linkedin.com/in/rickrainey