Location: 122 Hamptons Road Prebbleton 7676 New Zealand
About me: Phil Cooper is an visionary extraordinaire. His
creative mind has been the seed of many
outstanding organizations that enables the
empowerment of the people through his social and
entrepreneurial skills. At a very young age, Phil
created the largest waterbed supply company in New
Zealand back in 1986. With a hungry mind, he
traveled the world and spent 4 years in New York
and Canada. Backed with his creativity, he started
a signage and design company in 1999 and became
the 4th largest design company in Australia with
60 staff and a turn-over of $5 million per year.
His signage and design company is responsible for
the branding of over 120 petroleum stations around
Australia for United Petroleum. Moved to
Christchurch in 2010 and started Buildtech
Holdings alongside his son Israel Cooper in 2011
after it was devastated by a series of earthquakes
in New Zealand. They are able to grow the company
of 170+ staff in just 3 years. Buildtech Holdings
was the fastest growing family-run construction
company in New Zealand. Recognizing the need for
foreign staff, mainly from the Philippines, he
moved aside from Buildtech and works with
company's to skills assess and help provides
full support and settlement for the workers
arriving into New Zealand and is involved in
giving back in support various charity projects in
the Philippines and around the world Spent years
working with a Orphanage in Indonesia make it self
sustainable with building a bakery which provides
up to 200 children With the current demand for
skilled construction workers in NZ Phil works to
provide Employers in New Zealand quality skilled
workers from the Philippines, to help rebuild the
City of Christchurch and NZ. He has been
responsible to date to assist approx 2500 Filipino
workers to date to help with the huge construction
shortage. A book was written about his life's
struggles while raising 6 kids on his own and has
been featured on many television programmes in
Australia and New Zealand.
