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The ‘Think Tank’ is a group of dedicated professionals crossing different industry sectors and each successful in their own right with a significant willingness to make a difference.Their willingness to be members of the PopUp Business School Aotearoa 'Think Tank' is so acknowledged. They support the development and growth of the PopUp Business School Aotearoa through sound business advice.
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Mavis Mullins
Mavis Mullins is one of New Zealand’s preeminent business and community leaders. Her extensive list of national awards, honours and accolades are testament to her governance excellence, her ability to connect people and her inspirational leadership. Her recent achievements include:
2017 Inductee NZ Business Hall of Fame 2017 Outstanding Maori Business Leader – Auckland University, 2017 Massey University Distinguished Alumni Award, 2016 Westpac Rural Woman of Influence, 2015 Maori Business Woman Leader Auckland University As a government and private sector governance leader, Mavis has amassed experience in a wide range of sectors from health, environment, agriculture, education and telecommunications and sport. At the heart of her success is her advocacy and commitment to Maori and Maori businesses, strong governance skills, deep personal integrity, strong sense of whanau and her common sense approach. Today she sits on a range of private and public sector boards with collective assets in the billions of dollars. She is undoubtedly one of the key architects of the rapid but sustainable growth, influence and success of the $42 billion in Maori Agribusiness assets that relies on collectivism, partnerships and collaboration. |
Guy Ryan
Guy is a entrepreneur, leader and speaker.
Guy was awarded Young New Zealander of the Year in 2015, and in the same year was invited to speak at the Social Enterprise World Forum alongside Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus. He has served on boards and strategic groups advising government and business, and has spoken internationally and at home to more than 25,000 people. From humble beginnings growing up in one of the most rural parts of New Zealand, Guy has built numerous ventures from scratch, both for-profit and charitable, and is particularly passionate about social enterprise as a means to help solve the complex and urgent challenges our world faces. As the Founder and Chief Executive of Inspiring Stories, he’s built an impressive track record of programmes and partnerships that have now supported more than 6,000 young New Zealanders to unleash their potential. These include major national events (Festival for the Future) to accelerator programmes (Live the Dream), and most recently the commercial ventures that have enabled Inspiring Stories to transition from a charity to a social enterprise with its recruitment agency (Millennials) and speaker bureau (Inspiring Speakers) ventures. |
Robett Hollis
Robett Hollis is ranked as one of LinkedIn’s Top 3 Most Influential New Zealanders. At 31 years old, he’s the youngest ever Board Member of the NZ Tech Industry Association, Founder of the NZ Entrepreneurs Festival, a head judge at the Innes48 Business Startup competition and was also named on the Uber Pitch Panel.
Robett is heavily involved in the media/tech and startup ecosystem and now runs Aranui Ventures which owns several interests including FRONTSIDE, one of NZ's leading Content Consultancy & Digital Production Agencies. AIRTIME, NZ’s Largest Action Sports Community and he also founded and expanded ColabNZ, New Zealand's Largest Network of Creative Shared Workspaces. Prior to Robett's entrepreneurial ventures he was a National Champion professional snowboarder ranked 2nd in the world, Olympic Commentator, ESPN Contributor and TV Producer. |
Melissa Clark-Reynolds
Melissa Clark-Reynolds ONZM is widely recognised as an inspirational role model and business leader. Melissa is a Digital Strategist and Professional Director - with 25 years’ experience as an entrepreneur and in the business start-up community. She trained with Clayton Christiansen in his approach to Disruptive Innovation through Harvard. Melissa has been CEO of a number of technology companies and is a Governor of Radio NZ, and sits on the Boards of ACCURO Insurance, Jasmax, and Softed.
Melissa is a Member of MPI’s Primary Growth Partnership Investment Advisory Panel and Chairs the LINZ Risk & Audit Committee. She is an experienced Director and member of NZIOD. In 2016 she attended the Te Hono Bootcamp at Stanford University. Melissa is often seen kayaking on Wellington harbour. |
Anna WatsoN
Anna specialises in facilitation and programme design / management. Her experience lies in designing and running programmes to build leadership and social entrepreneurship capability in young people. Most recently, Anna was Programme Manager and Venture Coach at Inspiring Stories Trust, a charity that aims to unleash the potential of young New Zealanders.
Anna originally came from a legal background; she was formerly a corporate solicitor at Bell Gully, one of New Zealand's pre-eminent commercial law firms. She also practised law at Slaughter and May, a law firm in London renowned for its excellence in corporate legal advice. In her spare time, Anna enjoys hiking and competing in half ironwoman triathlons. She also give back to her community by mentoring young people who have come through different programmes. |
Bill McDonalD
Bill is a finance professional who specialises in developing integrated business models. He has had extensive senior management experience in local government, state sector and corporate organisations working alongside people at all levels of an organisation to secure the appropriate information and assistance needed to deliver a client solution.
Bill is a co-founder of Vapour Consulting and Connect Aeotaroa. His business interests also include a Montessori School and a honey distribution company. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Administration from Victoria University of Wellington and is a member of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants, New Zealand Society for Risk Management, Project Management Institute, and New Zealand Asset Management Support. Out-of-hours Bill can be found coaching junior golfers, and when he can really get away from it all, angling for the big one at Turangi. |
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A Kiwi to the bone, Tony spent many years living in the UK, returning to New Zealand in 2014. Tony is a coach and mentor with specific interest in how an individual or business core message can be communicated. Tony also works with start-up and stay-ups and having worked in the IT space in New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Europe is an experienced project, programme and portfolio manager. Tony works with Victoria University's young entrepreneurs. He has spoken at Westminster through his work with CEO's in the UK and been to an audience at No 10 Downing Street for his work in raising funds for charity. Tony is an author, a poet, a proud dad, passionate about all things Kiwi and has been delving into what makes up the Kiwi DNA... in other words, “what makes a Kiwi tick?”
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