Our Team
The Staffline Whānau“No truck in New Zealand moves without a driver.
Every member of the office based Staffline team are there because they know their jobs. Our most important job is to support the driver.” Mike Edwards
Mike Edwards
Founder / Company Director
mike@staffline.co.nz | 021 997 991
A highly experienced driver himself with nearly 30 years of experience, Mike founded and ran a successful driving agency in the UK since 2000, and more recently in NZ since 2015. His aim has always been to work in transport and logistics as an excuse to call playing with trucks “work”. He has three adult children, and loves the country life, favouring driving tractors over smashed avocado brunches. His lifelong ambition is to try driving the Outback with a proper outback trucker, and to build up a collection of old trucks.
Tess Edwards
Payroll and Accounts
tess@staffline.co.nz | 027 398 8814
Tess is a Kiwi ex-high school teacher and mother of three. She worked in Business Development, Administration, and Accounts roles as co-owner of a large recruitment company in the UK. She is now responsible for the payroll function here at Staffline and assisting the accounts team. Goals are to do more yoga and less cardio, travel more and buy less, more yin and less yang.
Kath Perry
Auckland Branch Manager
kath@staffline.co.nz | 021 997 692
Kath Perry is our Auckland Branch Manager. She joined the Staffline team in April 2017 as Office Manager and master of all things admin and assistant to Mike. She has been promoted at every company she worked for, working her way up the ranks and setting up new procedures and policies along the way. The same is true at Staffline, where she has been promoted to Branch Manager with primary responsibility for operations. Her previous roles include reception, customer services, customer services manager, sales co-ordinator, account management, facilities management, Personal Assistant. In her spare time, whilst bringing up two sporty teenagers she enjoys spending time with family and treks.
Dianne Cullen
Christchurch Branch Manager
dianne@staffline.co.nz | 021 228 6391
Di is our South Island presence, based in Christchurch. Having moved around New Zealand throughout her life with her family, she settled in beautiful Christchurch three years ago. With a diverse background in customer service, retail, weighbridge operations, dispatch, and 13 years of office management, she took on the role of Christchurch Branch Manager two years ago—and has loved every minute of it!
At the Christchurch branch of Staffline, Di enjoys meeting incredible clients and candidates and looks forward to connecting with many more in the future.
“Being part of the Staffline team is awesome—I definitely feel like part of the family,” she says.
Julie Pizzini
Financial Controller
julie@staffline.co.nz | (09) 950 9996
Julie is a fully qualified Chartered Accountant and is the “numbers person” in the administration team. She trained with Price Waterhouse and went on to hold Financial Controller roles in a finance company and food manufacturing companies across NZ and Australia. Julie is the mother of 4. With the youngest now 15 years she now has more time to pursue her own fitness goals with a group of friends, taking part in “Bootcamp” three times a week, and also participating in Mud Runs, Stair Climbs and other mad physical pursuits. Julie enjoys working in the Staffline team as we focus on our drivers and make sure our clients are happy.
Lisa Dial
Auckland Operations
lisa@staffline.co.nz | 021 347 070
Lisa is our Operations Assistant – screening & interviewing candidates and liaising with our customers. She started with the Staffline Team early 2023, having come from a Freight Forwarding background of 25+ years in the Customer Service & Key Account Management space. She says “If you can work & survive in the Forwarding Industry – then you can work anywhere!” Lisa & her long-term Partner (he says long-suffering – she says lucky bugger….) bought and built up a small but successful aluminium joinery business back in 2010 & later sold to pursue new ventures. Having also worked in the recruitment space specialising in Freight & Logistics, which is where her passion emerged for the industry, segueing over to truck driving recruitment was a fairly easy and enjoyable transition. She is a Super Mum of 2 Teenagers – 14 & 17 years (sometimes feels like an Uber Driver) and in her spare time enjoys socialising with friends & family, spending time fishing and jet-skiing In the Coromandel and is a big fan of travelling to any Pacific Island with a good thriller book & cocktail in hand…..