Anika Gamba

Experience at a glance

How Anika can help

• Preparing and positioning a business: representing every business to an enterprise-level standard, regardless of its size.
• Selling across a wide range of sectors: earning the trust of vendors and buyers through her firsthand business ownership experience and practical guidance.
• Complex, higher-value transactions: structuring and negotiating multi-million-dollar business sales.
• Strategic and investment buyers: connecting vendors with buyers focused on acquiring larger businesses.
• Transition and handover: supporting owner-operators through a smooth transition.
• End-to-end sale management: managing the process with clear, honest communication throughout.

Industry and business type experience

Experience and approach

Before joining LINK, Anika spent 20 years running her own businesses, from specialised businesses with teams of five to organisations employing 120 people. This firsthand experience informs the practical commercial, operational, and personal guidance she can offer business owners considering a sale or preparing to sell.

In her early career, she also managed a recruitment business, placing people across FMCG, communications, media, insurance and medical roles, including work for some of the country's biggest FMCG groups. These connections gave her a front-row seat to how manufacturing, distribution, staffing and customer relationships in these sectors operate, and what it takes to grow a business.

This range of experience is exactly why vendors trust her. She takes the time to understand the people behind a business, not just the numbers, and the industry it sits in. It's an approach that wins the confidence of both vendors and buyers, across a diverse range of sectors.

Transaction experience

Anika's selective about the businesses she takes on. She works across a wide range of industries with businesses of all shapes and sizes, from smaller, specialised businesses through to major enterprises, with notable transactions including one of $36 million, attracting interest from equity investors alongside more traditional buyers.

Her other recent transaction highlights include facilitating the sale of an iconic chilled food manufacturing and distribution business that supplies major retailers, and pulling off two separate, successful sales of the same automotive dealership for its owners.

Buyer pool and network

Anika has built a national buyer network over more than a decade working across a wide range of sectors.

Her network spans senior decision-makers at major players in food manufacturing, FMCG, waste management and services, which means she can put vendors selling within more specialised sectors in front of engaged and interested buyers.

Recognition and achievements

• 2024 LINK Deal of the Year, New Zealand — Finalist
• 2024 LINK Christchurch Top Seller — 2nd
• 2023 LINK Christchurch Broker of the Year — 1st
• 2022 LINK South Island Broker of the Year — 1st
• 2021 LINK South Island Broker of the Year — 1st
• 2021 LINK Award of Excellence, New Zealand — 1st
• LINK Chairman's Club — three-time chevron recipient

About Anika

Originally from South Africa, Anika has called New Zealand home for many years, first putting down roots in Christchurch, and more recently in the Bay of Plenty. A true outdoors enthusiast, she finds joy in being amongst nature in her free time.