Stitch has been named ANZ Rising Star of the Year at the inaugural Braze ANZ Partner Awards, accepted by Co-Founder and Managing Partner Adnan Khan and Head of Marketing and AI Automation Vikas Varma at Braze Partner Day Sydney on 17 August 2026, in front of more than 100 leaders from across the Braze ANZ partner ecosystem.
The award recognises the partner that has most rapidly grown its impact within the Braze Alloys Partner Network across Australia and New Zealand. Braze's judging panel highlighted Stitch's evolution from a new partner into one of the most impactful and trusted delivery partners in the ANZ ecosystem.
"Two years ago we were a new Braze partner that most of the ANZ ecosystem hadn't heard of, so Rising Star is an award we're proud to accept on behalf of our whole team in Auckland," said Adnan Khan, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Stitch. "This recognition belongs to our team and to our clients, who trusted us to take on their complex enterprise data and customer engagement needs. Stitch is an independent consultancy with big ambitions, and we think the best of what we can build with Braze is still ahead of us."
"This award is thoroughly well deserved," said Chris Johnston, Senior Director, Commercial Partnerships, APJ at Braze. "The way the Stitch team works with our teams on opportunities - the responsiveness, transparency and depth of information - is first-class. It is honestly the best I have seen in my time in this role, and we look forward to continuing to grow our partnership across New Zealand and Australia."
In the past year Stitch has delivered Braze programmes for New Zealand companies including agentic travel technology platform Serko (NZX/ASX: SKO), and was recently appointed by Skyline Enterprises as their Braze onboarding partner.
"Stitch worked alongside the Serko team to build the backbone of our Braze programme, from beta through to commercial launch for our new agentic product, Serko.ai. They move fast, and when we hit constraints, they came back with options to keep us moving forward. As we push into an agentic, real-time model of customer engagement, Stitch is a key partner we trust to build alongside us, not just for us," said Kathryn Hoolihan, Director of Growth Marketing at Serko.
"Stitch stand out as an agile and responsive partner with a track record of supporting clients to maximise their Braze investment at speed," says Ella Spittle, Group Customer Experience Manager at Skyline Enterprises. "They've quickly become an invaluable extension of our team, helping us to achieve value from Braze within just weeks while designing the right foundations for our longer-term customer engagement ambitions."