Fertility Associates
Sean Conroy is an experienced executive in the healthcare and retirement sectors, currently serving as Chief Operating Officer at Fertility Associates since October 2022. Previously, Sean held key roles including Director of Service and Innovation and Operations Director - Healthcare at Compass Group. Sean's extensive leadership experience includes positions as Divisional Chief Executive and Group General Manager at Healthcare of New Zealand Limited, where responsibilities encompassed community health and strategic business planning. As Chief Executive at Healthvision New Zealand, Sean oversaw all business operations, and served as Chief Operating Officer at Summerset Group Holdings Limited, a leading retirement village operator in New Zealand. Sean's governance experience includes serving as a Board Member and Treasurer for North Harbour Living Without Violence Collective. Educational qualifications include an MBA and a Bachelor of Applied Economics, Finance from Massey University, as well as a Diploma in Health Science from Auckland University of Technology.
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.