James Fuller

James began his career as an application developer, before moving into technology strategy and consultancy. After senior roles at Thomson Reuters and Deloitte, he decided to strike out on his own as a growth consultant for startup, corporate, and government clients.

It was rewarding work, but James found himself struggling with the amount of tax and financial admin involved in being self-employed. To solve the issue, he and co-founder Claire created a simple, homemade system to automate calculating and paying self-employed taxes.

They shared their system with self-employed friends, realised that there was a market for it, and got to work improving their solution .In 2017, James and Claire officially launched Hnry; a service designed to automatically calculate, pay, and file taxes for sole traders.

Today, Hnry is New Zealand’s largest, and Australasia’s fastest-growing accounting service. We process billions of dollars worth of payments every year, handling around 1% of New Zealand’s tax revenue.

Best of all, we free up thousands of hours for clients to focus more on what they do best – their jobs. Hnry is on a mission to make self-employment simple, affordable, and accessible for anyone.