About StaffChecks

Over 29 years of background-check experience.

Back in 1997, we set out to provide a background check service that was both efficient and reliable — something that the corporate guys weren't so good at. We've been refining the craft ever since.

Our philosophy

"Trust but verify."

Workplace integrity is at the heart of what we strive to achieve. Through our background checks we encourage the famous dictum — trust but verify. It's a discipline that protects employers, candidates and the people they ultimately serve.

Why us?

Back in 1997, we set out to provide a background check service that was both efficient and reliable. Today we proudly maintain the highest quality of performance we sought to achieve from the start.

Diverse industry expertise

During our first year of operation we established a team carrying experience across private investigation, accounting, public relations and administration — a foundation we still build on today.

Devoted professionals

With our team of devoted professionals, we're able to assure security, reliability and quick turnarounds — every job, every time.

Long-term clients

Trusted by leading NZ organisations.

Along the way, we've supported many organisations across a diversity of industries. Examples of our long-term clients include:

Mainfreight NZ

Sheffield NZ

Buddle Findlay Law

Fletchers Building Group

NZ Government City Councils

Meet the founders

The people behind StaffChecks.

StaffChecks was started by two people who care deeply about doing this work properly — and who have spent their careers making sure it gets done that way.

Portrait of Tamzin Davies, Managing Director & Co-founder of StaffChecks

Tamzin Davies

Managing Director & Co-founder

Loyal, focused and respectful.

Everyone who meets Tamzin knows her by the energy she brings to a room — warm, genuinely curious about people, and quietly meticulous about the details that make a service feel effortless.

Before co-founding StaffChecks, Tamzin spent four years overseas as an office manager, then moved into public relations back in New Zealand, and later built her own account-management practice. That mix — operations, communications and client care — is the DNA of how StaffChecks runs today.

Outside work you'll find her riding and training her horses, with friends and family, or looking after the lifestyle block she shares with Dan.

Portrait of Dan Thompson, CEO & Co-founder of StaffChecks

Dan Thompson

CEO & Co-founder

Enthusiastic, reliable and experienced.

Dan has spent his entire working life helping others. He started his career in the New Zealand Police Criminal Investigation Branch, where he discovered a deep passion for investigation work.

In 1979 he became one of New Zealand's first licensed private investigators, and over the following decades founded and ran investigation and security businesses across Australia and New Zealand.

After hearing about a preventable death involving an un-vetted caregiver, Dan and Tamzin decided to look hard at how background checking was being done in New Zealand — and concluded they could do it far better. StaffChecks was born from that conviction.

The wider team

Account Managers

  • Sue Trombik

    Account Manager

  • Berny Tinneny Phillips

    Account Manager

Support & extended team

The StaffChecks team is made up of a diverse collective of professionals and large-scale organisations. Located in various corners of the world, our experts work diligently to earn their spot as the most trusted in the industry.

Because we understand the importance of hiring the right employee, you can rest assured that each member of our extended team has been chosen for a specific reason — sharp analytical skills, account management expertise, or a high standard of efficiency. Our specialists bring defined and developed qualities which enable excellence throughout our assistance.

Built in Aotearoa, for Aotearoa.

StaffChecks is a New Zealand owned and operated company based in Auckland. Get in touch — we'd love to help with your next hire.

New Zealand

enquiries@staffchecks.com

PO Box 82, Clevedon 2248

Auckland, New Zealand

International

enquiries@staffchecks.com

PO Box 82, Clevedon 2248

Auckland, New Zealand