Fertility Associates
Jeff Bates is an accomplished financial leader with extensive experience in senior management roles across various industries. Currently serving as Chief Financial Officer at Fertility Associates since July 2023, Jeff previously held the same position at Auckland Eye Limited from January 2021 to June 2023. Earlier roles include Director of Financial Planning and Analysis at TSG and multiple positions at Vodafone, where responsibilities encompassed significant revenue and operating expense oversight. Jeff's career also includes positions at TelstraClear, J2ET Consultancy, Digifonica International Inc., KPMG Vancouver, and Damovo UK Limited. An alumnus of the University of Southampton with a BSc Honours in Mathematics with Actuarial Studies, Jeff has a proven track record in financial leadership and strategic planning.
Fertility Associates
Fertility Associates is New Zealand’s leading provider of fertility diagnosis, support and treatment. Our four treatment clinics and peripheral consultation clinics have the common goal of providing the most successful outcomes for you. Our doctors, scientists, nurses and counsellors are among the very best in their field, bringing their expertise and compassion to help you start a family. Fertility Associates was started in 1987 by the original doctors who introduced in vitro fertilisation (IVF) to New Zealand in the early 1980s - Dr Freddie Graham and Dr Richard Fisher. The organisation today is lead by four Medical Directors (Mary Birdsall, VP Singh, Andrew Murray and Sarah Wakeman), as well as a close knit team of experienced reproductive medicine specialists to ensure the provision of publicly funded and private fertility services throughout the New Zealand. Today Fertility Associates is the largest fertility services provider in New Zealand with four main clinics in Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington and Christchurch, as well as some lower technology treatments available in Auckland’s North Shore and Palmerston North clinics. Specialists from these base clinics consult regularly in Whangarei, North Shore Auckland, East Auckland, West Auckland, Tauranga, New Plymouth, Gisborne, Hawke's Bay, Whanganui, Palmerston North, Nelson and Queenstown.