About us
Memia Ltd is based in Christchurch, New Zealand's leading ICT centre. We are an innovative consultancy dedicated to helping our customers - software businesses and I.T. organizations - transform their capabilities using the very latest cloud services.
Ben Reid
Director and Principal Consultant
Memia co-founder Ben Reid is a software and enterprise architect based in Christchurch, New Zealand with 15 years of professional software and I.T. architecture experience. Originally from the UK he moved to NZ in 2004 to work for HP Consulting as a software architect, leaving to start Memia Cloud Consulting in 2008. Ben has worked in a wide range of vertical industries and technologies, and is driven by applying technology innovation to build business value. Ben is a qualified TOGAF Enterprise Architecture practitioner, and has worked as part of the I.T. architecture teams for some of the largest enterprises in NZ.
Ben is a committee member of Canterbury Software Inc., a non-profit organization aimed at helping the Canterbury software sector succeed at home and worldwide.
Smina Vanlerberghe MBA
Director and Principal Consultant
Memia co-founder Smina Vanlerberghe has over 13 years experience in the IT industry working for large international corporations, outsourcing vendors and local small and medium software businesses in various management positions. She started her career managing Technical Services teams for Xerox Europe Ltd in Ireland, while managing projects to improved Service Delivery and Productivity for the European Service Centre. Her passion for people and IT led her career to managing initiatives and businesses in need of improvement.
After graduating for an MBA at the University of Canterbury, Smina wants to share her vision on how people, processes and IT can lead businesses from good to great. Smina is a principal consultant in Management and Strategy, Software as a service Business and Enterprise 2.0