Brent Kelly - A Biography

Brent is passionate about the Internet and how it can be successfully utilised by a business to make steady, ongoing incremental improvements to business results.

Brent is David Kelly’s younger brother and founded Zeald.com with David and Hamish Braddick back in the Year 2000. Brent has an extremely sharp intellect and a quick wit and can often be heard giving someone a hard time (in jest) around the office.

Similarly to David, Brent is also very gifted academically, athletically and musically (and according to Brent, much better looking). When Brent was 10, his parents were called to a school meeting to be informed that Brent had an IQ that was in the top 1% of the world!

Brent attended Rodney College in Wellsford but left school when he was 16, against the advice of his teachers, having completed the majority of his college schooling and wanting to “get on with it”. He attended Massey University in Albany, topping the university in many different subjects including accounting, finance, management, marketing, economics, computer science and information systems. Despite many invitations from different university departments, he decided to pursue computer science and upon his graduation he received the prestigious Massey Scholar award a year after his brother David had received the same award for the same degree.

Brent then joined Hamish and David in founding Zeald.com. Brent is the Research and Development Director at Zeald.com and is in charge of product research and development. He has played a critical part in the development of Zeald.com and has been directly responsible for planning and developing most of their products and some of the most critical systems utilised by the Zeald.com team. Brent is passionate about the Internet and how it can be successfully utilised by a business to make steady, ongoing incremental improvements to business results.

Brent has had music in his veins from a young age. He could be found playing in shows in different venues from the age of 14 onwards. He is a gifted drummer and a talented singer and also plays the guitar and the piano. He has played in many bands over the years including the popular NZ rock band Mozelee with his brother David.

Brent grew up near the beach at Mangawhai Heads and loves the water. He is a keen surfer, scuba diver and fisherman with many good catches to his name (20Ib snappers and 35lb kingi’s). He went through school representing the school in just about every sport offered including rugby, cricket, volleyball, basketball, hockey, and athletics and so on. Working life however has curbed his sporting activities somewhat although he still actively plays volleyball, squash and golf.

Brent has a very energetic son, Regan, who is five years old and has just started school proving unstoppable. Regan (like his Dad) loves computer games (especially the shooting ones) and can often be heard earnestly telling someone how awesome he is at certain games or telling his Dad what he needs to do to stop dying!