Leadership team expands

AutoSense has appointed Steve Fielding as chief revenue officer to strengthen its leadership team as the fleet-safety provider deepens its work with Kiwi customers and expands its presence in Australia.

Fielding, pictured, joins the company after more than two decades’ experience spanning transport operations, fleet technology, software as a service and commercial leadership. 

Most recently, he was executive general manager at New Zealand logistics business Netlogix, with responsibility across its $110 million revenue business, which includes transport operations, customer service and commercial performance.

Before Netlogix, Fielding spent almost five years as head of growth and retention for Australia and New Zealand at transport technology company Eroad, where he led a large sales and customer growth team across the transport, fleet, construction and government sectors. 

During his tenure there, he played a central role in scaling the business, which grew to support a customer base of more than 6,000 organisations.

In his new role, Fielding will lead AutoSense’s commercial and growth strategy on both sides of the Tasman with a focus on strengthening relationships with existing New Zealand clients so they can access the full breadth of AutoSense’s driver-safety offering.

“I’m most looking forward to the opportunity to help scale a business that already has a strong reputation, great people and genuinely differentiated capability,” he says.

“AutoSense sits at an interesting intersection of technology, fleet safety and risk management. There’s an opportunity to bring those elements together in a way that creates measurable value for customers.”

AutoSense’s chief executive officer, Charles Dawson, says Fielding’s combination of commercial, technology and frontline transport experience will be valuable as the company builds on its long-standing Kiwi customer relationships while growing its Australian business.

He adds: “Our New Zealand customers remain at the heart of AutoSense. As our offering has evolved, we’re able to support them across much more of their driver-safety journey – from in-vehicle technology, telematics and data insights through to safe driving-policy advisory, fatigue education, and specialist fatigue and sleep services.

“Steve’s focus will be on spending time with our customers, understanding where we can add greater value and making sure they’re getting the best of AutoSense’s capability, while also helping us take that proven approach into the Australian market.”

AutoSense’s expanding offering reflects a broader shift in fleet safety from identifying risk to helping organisations act on it. 

In New Zealand, the company works with fleets across freight and logistics, utilities, infrastructure and field services, combining driver-monitoring technology with operational insight and safe-driving advice.

Fielding says his appointment comes with transport operators under increasing pressure to balance safety and compliance requirements with challenging commercial conditions.

“Operators are dealing with rising costs, tighter margins, driver shortages and growing expectations around safety,” he adds. “At the same time, they are surrounded by more technology and data than ever. The real opportunity is turning that technology and data into practical action to improve safety, productivity and the economics of running a fleet.”