Ian Bennett

IMPORTANT: the email domain provided (business-refinery.com) does not resolve to a live site -- it either connection-refused or redirected to a generic Namecheap domain-parking page, suggesting the domain is dormant or expired. Trade publication Reseller News reports that Auckland's "Business Refinery" spun off its Modern Workplace practice into a standalone company, Custom365, now specialising in Microsoft 365 (Teams, SharePoint, Power Platform), with Ian Bennett as CEO -- matching his apollo headline ("CEO | Modern Workplace Consultant") far better than his apollo_title on file ("Auckland Chapter President," which appears to reference his separate, unpaid role as SMBiT Professionals Chapter President, not his day job).

Custom365's own site (custom365.co) lists services including an M365 risk assessment/discovery workshop, SharePoint and Teams implementation, Copilot adoption and AI enablement, Power Platform consultancy, cloud migration and user training, and several proprietary tools: SmartDMS for Policies, a Teams Control App, a Health & Safety App, a Complaints Management App, a Cert Alert App, and an Extranet Manager, plus ongoing managed services.

Named client logos/testimonials include the Fred Hollows Foundation, St Andrews Village, Teknatool International, Dingwall Trust, and Health Improvement Group, spanning healthcare, education, manufacturing, retail, and nonprofit sectors.

No founding year, team size, or pricing is disclosed on the Custom365 site, and the exact date of the Business Refinery spin-off wasn't pinned down. Given the domain-mismatch discovery here, this is a strong example of the batch's core research risk (an unreliable starting signal, in this case the person's own email domain rather than Apollo) resolving only via an independent web search.