2degrees
Aaron Smith has extensive work experience in the telecommunications industry, primarily in financial roles. Aaron is currently the Chief Financial Officer at 2degrees, a position they started in June 2022. Before joining 2degrees, Aaron held the role of Chief Financial Officer at Vocus Communications New Zealand from September 2018 to June 2022. Prior to that, they were the Chief Financial Officer at Cognition Education Limited from November 2013 to July 2018. Aaron also worked at Vodafone New Zealand as the Head of Planning & Reporting from November 2012 to September 2013. Aaron has a background in financial management, with previous roles at TelstraClear as Group Manager: Planning, Reporting & Analysis, Commercial Manager - Operations, and Commercial Manager - Wholesale. Before entering the telecommunications industry, Aaron worked at TATA Communications Ltd. (fka VSNL) as the European Financial Controller, as well as at Teleglobe and TMP Worldwide in financial roles.
Aaron Smith attended Mountain View High School from 1985 to 1989.
2degrees
2degrees is a full service telecommunications provider. We launched in 2009, significantly lowering the cost of mobile for Kiwis, but we've actually been around a little while longer. Back in the 90s a visionary group of Maori challenged the crown through the Treaty of Waitangi and won the rights to 3G spectrum. Despite financial and regulatory adversity a Maori Trust (Hautaki) was established with the challenge of launching New Zealand’s third mobile network. Since then, we’ve been busy. We have built a brand new mobile network, helping us to cover 98.5% of the places Kiwis live and work. In March 2015 we also acquired NZ's fourth largest ISP (Snap), and now offer internet services as well as mobile to Kiwis across the country. We all really believe in what we are trying to accomplish for our customers and New Zealand. We’ve even been lucky enough to be recognised for it along the way, with a number of awards for our customer service over the years.