About Us

Craig Tarres – Managing Director

Craig has over 30 years of finance and business experience.  Craig spent 10 years in Sydney, Australia working for Dun & Bradstreets Commercial Finance division, then moving on to Citibank where he managed territories providing Consumer and Commercial Finance.  Craig then moved to Westpac in branch management and Business Banking roles.

Originally from Christchurch, Craig returned home to go into business for himself.  He built up and sold a successful Software / web business between 1999 and 2003. The business was sold to Acclipse, now part of CCH. After selling the software company he then moved into general investing and some minor ownerships of small businesses in NZ.

Craig has been involved in debt restructuring and loan origination for small to medium companies for a number of years now and has formalised this into First Business Finance.