Meet our team

Daniel & Bronwyn Klinkenberg

CEO/Founders

Creating beautiful client homes of exceptional quality was the inspiration for Daniel and wife Bronwyn when they established Urban Homes in 2004. No strangers to the build process themselves having built and renovated homes of their own, Daniel, a trade-qualified carpenter, and Bronwyn wanted to provide clients with a building journey of a difference – one that was professional, transparent, stress-free, and most of all enjoyable. Today, that passion has extended to all facets of the company.

As CEO, Daniel is committed to growing and empowering the Urban Homes team, creating a culture where people are valued, respected, and encouraged to unlock their potential. Daniel is driven by excellence, as well as a desire to be a role model for his two boys, both of whom have shown a talent for the building industry with many a Lego masterpiece.

Andrew South

General Manager
Senior Leadership Team Member

Andrew comes from an HR and Recruitment background.  His role is to lead the day to day functions of the business and the Head of Departments, and to work with Daniel to implement the strategies that will keep Urban Homes growing and moving forward.

Andrew is originally from Dunedin but has made Hamilton his home, enjoying all that the Waikato has to offer along with his partner and two boys.

Lynn Power

Personal Assistant to Daniel Klinkenberg & Andrew South

Lynn’s role is to support Daniel and Andrew, allowing them time to focus on managing the business and supporting our clients. Lynn has worked in similar roles, mostly at a corporate level, and has always had a strong interest in the building industry having built three homes, most recently with Urban Homes in 2015. Lynn can, therefore, relate to our clients as they go through their build process.

Craig Geer

Head of Sales & Marketing
Senior Leadership Team Member

Craig has over 16 years’ experience in the new home design and build industry. He takes pride in being able to work alongside homeowners to understand their wishlists and concept ideas. This creates a collaborative team where Craig shares his design and product knowledge, combined with expert advice. Craig has a passion for enabling clients to make the very best decisions when planning their new home design, and thoroughly enjoys seeing their ideas turned into dream homes.

Rebecca Varga

Personal Assistant to Craig Geer

Rebecca’s role is providing support to Craig so he can focus on our clients and his team.

She has over 12 years’ experience supporting excellence in large corporate businesses. Rebecca is dedicated to providing exceptional service to her clients both internally and externally and has a passion for fine homes. One day Rebecca hopes to convince her husband they should build.

Vinny Hubbard

Head of People and Culture
Culture Team Member

Vinny began his Urban journey as a builder in 2016. Early 2019, he took on a new role as Head of People and Culture. He is passionate about good relationships and a positive work environment.

Aside from embracing his role at Urban, Vinny loves fishing, team sport and renovating his own home.

Christine Stewart

New Home Consultant
Waikato

If there’s one thing that excites our new home consultant, Christine, it’s the journey she takes with her clients as they embark on building their very own masterpiece. A Waikato girl, Christine has made the region her home and provides clients with friendly and supportive customer service as they set out to make a home in the Waikato too. She knows that building a home isn’t a small decision to make, but clients can trust Christine to be with them every step of the way to make the build experience as seamless as possible.

Kerry Wright

New Home Consultant
Coromandel/Bay of Plenty

Kerry grew up on a farm next to the ocean in rural New Zealand and felt drawn out of city life and back to his roots. Whangamata in the Coromandel seemed like a good fit for him where he now resides with his family. Kerry has had an impressive career in new home sales in both Hamilton and Auckland. Kerry contributes his success to his client relationships. Kerry loves meeting new people and getting to know them beyond just building them a home. Kerry understands his clients are investing a huge amount of themselves and their resources into a new home and is motivated by a result that both he and his clients are excited about. He looks forward to meeting you soon.

Mike Lobb

New Home Consultant
Waikato

Although reasonably new to the building industry, Mike has already enjoyed selling a wide range of houses in the Waikato, from first homes through to luxury dream homes. His extensive sales experience includes selling luxury horse coaches in New Zealand and Australia, as well as 25 years in the liquor industry working in sales management roles for Lion Nathan, DB Breweries and Pernod Ricard Wines & Spirits. Mike is married to Alyssa and they have two daughters. Outside of work, Mike is a champion equestrian eventer who competes to the top level for New Zealand. He also keeps busy snow skiing, running, mountain biking, water sports and coaching his daughter’s hockey team.

Nik Eliadis

New Home Consultant
Waikato

Nik’s has a successful background in new home sales previously based in the South Waikato.

With his proven track record, Nik’s goal is to achieve the best outcome in every situation for his client and will ensure he is with them every step of the way. Nik’s personal values of integrity and transparency align with those of Urban Homes. He is approachable with his friendly can-do attitude and gives clear advice to assist his clients. With a flair for design and a keen eye for detail Nik enjoys working with his clients to build the house of their dreams.

Recently married to Mandy, Nik will soon be a new home client himself when they build with Urban Homes. Outside of work Nik enjoys keeping fit.  He played college basketball in America and then spent many years as a competitive cyclist.

Olivia Mael

New Home Consultant
Waikato
Culture Team Member

Olivia has a long-standing background in new home construction and interior design. Her strong attention to detail and extensive product knowledge are appreciated by all of her clients. Having designed and built many of her own homes, Olivia has the ability to understand individual client requirements and guide them through a design and build experience they would gladly repeat.

Sean Clarke

New Home Consultant
Waikato

Sean has joined the Urban team as Sales Consultant. Sean has been in house sales and design since 2004 when he arrived in New Zealand from the UK with his wife and two sons. Sean and his family have built five different houses for themselves so Sean has a real understanding of the worries and concerns people may have when embarking on a building project. His experience allows Sean to offer great advice and guidance to those who are embarking on this exciting and rewarding journey.

Tanya Lea-Hunter

New Home Consultant
Waikato

Tanya boasts over 30 years’ experience within the building industry – firstly as an architectural drawing technician (both in NZ and the UK during travels) before working in her own business as an architectural designer for the past 20 years. More recently, Tanya has mixed her design skills with colour consulting to the building industry, helping many new home clients select both exterior/interior finishes to their new home. Tanya offers experienced guidance through all areas of decision making – helping turn dreams into reality!

Tanya Jones-Blok

Colour Consultant

Tanya joined the Urban Team in 2019 as our in-house colour consultant. She brings with her many years of experience working in the construction industry in new home sales & design and colour consultancy.

Driven to provide an exceptional service from the first meeting, Tanya is looking forward to providing you with the home of your dreams with the perfect finishing touches.

Outside of Urban, Tanya is a mum of two daughters (and a husband) and twice as many four legged “children”.

Paula Smith

Sales Assistant

Paula’s primary role is to support our sales team so they can focus on delivering the very best possible service to our clients, and assists Rebecca with the company’s marketing. Paula has held administration support roles in a variety of industries. She especially enjoys working in sales and marketing teams where she can liaise with clients and be a part of a diverse range of projects. Paula’s duties include contract documentation and responding to customer queries. If for any reason your sales consultants cannot be reached, Paula will be happy to help.

Joanna Chalmers

Head of Design
Architectural Designer

Joanna (Jo) is a Design 2 Licensed Building Practitioner, with extensive experience in the residential building industry in Hamilton. As an architectural designer Jo is responsible for the Design and Building Consent process at Urban Homes. Jo works alongside the entire Urban team to ensure every project runs smoothly, from design to the issuing of consents. A perfectionist at heart, Jo treats every project with the care and respect she would give her own home.

Ben Parker

Architectural Technician

Urban gave Ben his first start in the construction industry as an apprentice builder back in 2007. From there he gained his National Diploma in Architectural Technology and has taken up a role with Urban as an Architectural Technician. Ben has worked in various Waikato based companies, working on projects ranging from small residential homes to multi story commercial buildings. With this experience Ben has developed a strong eye for detail and strives to produce innovative design solutions.

Komal Abbas

Architectural Technician

Komal is an Graduate Architect with a Master’s degree in construction management and over eight years of design experience in a range of projects from institutional to hospitality.

Komal joined Urban Homes as an architectural technician to assist the design team with the design and consent process and is extremely passionate about the whole evolution process of a project from inception to final product.

Penny Du Preez

Architectural Technician

Penny started at Urban Homes as an architectural technician to assist Joanna and the team with house designs and the building consent process. Penny was a qualified architect in South Africa with approximately 14 years post. grad. experience abroad and has worked on projects ranging from residential, commercial, industrial and the retail building industry. She has 2 years work experience in Hamilton, mainly in the residential building industry. Penny sees each project as an opportunity to encapsulate the beauty of the built form.

Charl Neser

Architectural Technician

Charl came to Urban with his Building and Architectural Drafting two-year qualification and eight years technical draughting experience – five years in his native South Africa and three years in Auckland.

Charl was attracted to Urban by the culture that was displayed by the team, the opportunities to grow as individuals, and also the level of craftsmanship offered and executed by the builders from the designs we do for our clients.

Outside of work Charl is a very keen on outdoor endurance off-road riding and enjoys fishing off his kayak as well as being very passionate about finding his next adventure (scuba diving, kayak fishing or adventure camping) in beautiful New Zealand.

Tamara Hayler

Architectural Technician

Tamara has joined Urban Homes as an Architectural Technician. She has a Diploma in Architectural Technology and has been working in the industry for almost two years.

Tamara has a passion for producing high quality plans and turning clients dreams into reality. She has always admired Urban Homes’ attention to detail and design flair as a standout feature from the rest. Tamara cares deeply about each project and pushes for the best result every time.

Cameron Walker

Head of Finance and Estimating
Senior Leadership Team Member

Cameron has a passion for the construction industry and finances. He has been on the peripherals on the construction industry for over five years and has brought that passion to the Urban Homes Finance and Estimating teams.

Cameron is a qualified Chartered Accountant with a constant thirst for knowledge. He also holds a Bachelor of Business Management and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Waikato. He was drawn to Urban Homes through the quality of our builds and innovation constantly on display.

Lisa Stephenson

Office Administrator

Lisa comes from an executive administration background, most recently as administrator in the International Office at Cambridge High School. Lisa joined Urban Homes to assist the financial manager with the processing of accounts, paying wages and various other administration duties to assist the team.

Emma Harris

Receptionist

Emma’s role as receptionist is front-of-house for the team. Emma has held administration roles in a variety of industries and more recently running her own small business. Emma joins our administration team supporting the finance, sales and construction teams. She will be the friendly face to greet you at reception and the friendly voice on the phone to direct your call.

Iben Young

Senior Quantity Surveyor

Iben is our ‘numbers man’. Iben has been specialising as a design and build quantity surveyor for residential construction for the past 10 years. He comes from a plumbing merchant background and has a post graduate diploma in Business Management from the University of Waikato. As Urban’s Head Quantity Surveyor, Iben understands exactly what products are required to enable our construction team to produce the very best result on site.

Matt Gudmundsson

Quantity Surveyor

Matt Gudmundsson is one of our quantity surveyors responsible for the pre-contract price requests and variations here at Urban Homes. Matt has been in the construction industry for 10 years, which were spent in Auckland. When the traffic and the cost of living got too much for him, Matt moved to Hamilton where he studied a Diploma in Quantity Surveying at Wintec. Matt fits right in to the Urban Homes team with his interest in sport and furniture making. Welcome to the team Matt!

Thomas Peterson

Quantity Surveyor

Thomas holds a National Certificate in Quantity Surveying and after several years in the commercial building industry, has decided to give the residential building industry a go.

A new challenge and the team culture is what drew Thomas to Urban Homes, and the assurance that a good work/life balance is encouraged.

What Thomas enjoys most outside of work is spending time with his wife and three kids. He enjoys mentoring/training children, keeping healthy and watching his own children play sports and developing in life.

Mark Atkinson

Head of Operations
Senior Leadership Team Member
Culture Team Member

Mark has been with Urban since 2010. As Project Manager, Mark will ensure your build runs smoothly and will be your first point of call once your project has started. Mark is a trade-qualified licensed carpenter with strong attention to detail. He will make sure your home is built to the highest possible standard and will keep you well informed of progress.

Grant Burbery

Project Manager

Grant joined Urban Homes as Project Manager in 2017 and brings over 25 years’ experience within the building industry. Grant will ensure your build runs smoothly and will be your first point of call once your project has started. Grant is a trade-qualified carpenter with a keen eye for detail. He will make sure your home is built to the highest possible standard and will keep you well informed of progress.

Jordan Harding

Project Manager
Culture Team Member

Jordan has been a trade-qualified builder for 10 years and is responsible for managing a team of builders. His dedication to the job and attention to detail ensures his work is always finished to the highest possible standard.

Ben Watson

Project Manager/Qualified Builder

Ben is a trade qualified carpenter and completed his apprenticeship in 2007.

Ben was fortunate enough to learn his skills building upmarket high end houses in Australia.  Because of this Ben has a keen eye for detail and is passionate about quality and perfecting every job he does.

Ben loves surfing, snowboarding and spending time with his family and friends.

Daniel Blok

Project Manager

Dan is a trade qualified builder and qualified project manager with many years of experience in the residential market .

He joined the Urban Team in 2019 and is thoroughly committed to ensure your build is one that will be built on open communication and respect, and with his unique sense of humour it will be an enjoyable partnership.

Outside the building industry, Dan is a station officer in the NZ Volunteer Fire Service – he enjoys the community involvement this role provides.

Allan Swan (Swanee)

Construction Support

With over 38 years in supervisory roles, including health and safety, Swanee has a wealth of knowledge when it comes to anything requiring handy work or maintenance. He is responsible for a wide variety of jobs, including the installation of site signs, on-site health and safety, remedial work and site cleanliness. Swanee describes himself as `old school’ and is proud of his ‘can-do’ attitude. If a job needs doing, Swanee will happily do what it takes to get it done.

Richard Hall

Construction Support

Richard started at Urban Homes in August of 2019 as part of the Construction Support crew. Richard brings a different perspective to the Urban construction team, having started his working life in engineering as a Fitter Turner. He has since had years of experience in commercial building maintenance and associated services.

Richard enjoys the wide variety of jobs the role throws at him and enjoys finding solutions for challenging tasks.

When not at work Richard likes to ‘pretend’ to catch fish off his kayak and throw himself down any snow covered mountain on a pair of skis.

Brad Conning

Qualified Builder

Brad started at Urban in 2017 as a qualified builder. Brad really enjoys the professionalism at Urban and liaising with our contractors the Urban team. Outside work Brad loves anything rugby, touch, and rugby!!!

Daniel (Mils) Miller

Qualified Builder

Mils has worked for Urban Homes for four years after returning to NZ from Australia. He became a trade qualified builder in 2018 and is responsible for running a small construction team out on our sites. When Mils is not at work he enjoys being in the water, ether surfing or wake boarding.

Nik Finlay

Qualified Builder

Nik started with Urban in 2018 as a qualified builder. He fits in well with his hard work ethic and drive to get things done, and he loves the Urban family culture. Outside of work Nik enjoys anything hands-on like DIY/renovations, as well as his passion of playing football for one of the local teams in Hamilton.

Jonny Bird

Qualified Builder

Jonny joined the Urban team in 2018 as a 3rd-year adult apprentice and achieved his National Certificate in Carpentry in 2019.

Jonny has experience in the building industry in New Zealand and the United Kingdom, being involved in a range of different projects. Before becoming an apprentice, Jonny was working as a physical education teacher in Auckland.

Josh Beattie

Apprentice Builder

Josh started working at Urban Homes in 2016 as an apprentice builder. He really enjoys working alongside and learning skills from our trade-qualified builders.

Mike Bayssat

Apprentice Builder

Mike started working for Urban Homes in 2017 as an apprentice builder. Mike enjoys Urban’s great culture and feels it is a great company to learn from as an apprentice. Outside of work, Mike enjoys rugby and farming.

TC Heperi

Apprentice Builder

TC started with Urban in 2018 as an apprentice carpenter. He loves being part of the team focusing on a high-end finish and keeping the Urban culture running within the walls of a new build. High attention to detail, innovative thinking and customer care is TC’s top priority as he works towards his carpenters qualification. Away from the tools, TC likes to keep himself in good shape, spending time with his family and friends, and getting to know new people.

Haydn Douglas

Apprentice Builder

We are lucky to have Haydn join our team as a 3rd-year apprentice. Hayden loves the Urban team culture and how easy everyone is to get along with, both on site and while enjoying the competitiveness at the Urban social sport events. Haydn appreciates good music and his friends, so when he is not at work you may find him attending music events, playing football and hanging out with his mates.

Nic Gaylor

Apprentice Builder

Nic came to Urban as a new apprentice and new to the building industry. He wanted to work for Urban because he appreciates the team culture and values held within the company.

Nic says he enjoys working for Urban as the people around him make for a strong learning environment as he works through his apprenticeship.

Outside of Urban he has a passion for rugby, fishing and anything outdoors.

Mark Ricketts

Apprentice Builder

Mark started working with Urban in 2019 as an apprentice builder. He was drawn to Urban because of the opportunity to grow within the company, and now he is here the great culture and the opportunity to work on mid to high-end builds appeals to him.

Mark started his career as a joiner and earned his certification in joinery, manufacturing bench tops, cabinetry etc.

While Mark is not working hard on site or doing his study, he enjoys spending time with his family, reading and working.

Tysyn Clapperton

Apprentice Builder

Tysyn started his career in trades and manufacturing including aluminium joinery in the boating industry.

He liked the look of Urban’s quality builds, high standards and staff culture so decided he wanted to be part of the team. He started working with Urban in 2019 as an apprentice builder after gaining his pre-trade carpentry certificate.

While Tysyn is not working hard on site he loves the outdoors and action sports including surfing and snowboarding, and loves live music.

Tim Deane

Apprentice Builder

Josiah Hamlin

Apprentice Builder