Survive & Thrive 2011

Te Radar (Andrew J Lumsden) is a multi-award winning satirist, documentary maker, writer, stage and screen director, and amateur historian.

He is best known to New Zealand audiences for his recent television shows Radar's Patch, Off The Radar and Homegrown. He is currently filming a new series exploring sustainability topics on a global scale.

He is a regular contributor to Radio New Zealand, Kiwi FM and Metro magazine.

Other than that, he really does very little.

Vicki Allpress-Hill
Vicki has spent nearly two decades bringing audiences to the arts. Since 2000, she has had a particular interest and involvement in e-marketing in the arts and is a regular international speaker, writer and consultant on the subject of using online channels effectively to attract and retain arts patrons.

Baruch Ter Wal | Why brand?
Baruch is Managing Director of Lee Ter Wal Design. He's a business writer, brand strategist, and psychology geek. You can check out his way of thinking at www.ltw.co.nz/btw. Baruch is a Trustee of the Centre for Social Innovation and serves as a creative industries advisor to Auckland City.

Dave Booth | Sounding board
Dave has a proven track record of growing ideas into highly profitable businesses with the success of www.iwantoneofthose.com (IWOOT), an online retail business venture he set up with a couple of friends in London. Currently Dave sits on several advisory boards through his roles as an Executive in Residence at the ICE Accelerator and as an ICE Angel. As well as startups Dave is also involved in an advisory capacity for several Charitable Trust, Non profits and the Creative sector.

Nick Gerritsen is a Marlborough-based catalyst and entrepreneur. He specialises in commercialising New Zealand technology propositions from the ground up, and has been leading New Zealand's contribution to the global clean tech revolution. He is also involved in projects in the internet /online, and screen production sectors.

He operates within a global network across the innovation and capital markets. He has been a consultant to New Zealand On Air, Radio New Zealand, Te Mangai Paho (the Maori Broadcasting Funding Agency), and the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.

Rebecca Mills is a leading sustainability strategist. As founder and principal consultant of Ministry of Green Rebecca combines scientific inputs with creative problem solving to craft sustainable futures- finding new opportunities for government and business. Trained in both science and design Rebecca has developed innovate strategies for internationally leading and high profile projects both in New Zealand and Europe.

Dr Ian Hunter
Best-selling author and educator Dr Ian Hunter is an Associate Professor at The University of Auckland Business School. Ian writes on innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity, and economic history.

As an academic, his research on entrepreneurship and innovation has been published in leading international journals. He has worked as senior consultant to the Department of Trade and Industry (UK), the New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development, as well as leading NZ corporates and government agencies. Ian is founder of the specialist innovation consultancy Creative IQ, and is passionate about seeing people and organisations release their creative potential and make innovation purposeful and productive.

Mark Olsen | Creating sales
A visual artist, Mark has achieved a lot in the past eight years. He has had 11 solo exhibitions, been a finalist st in the NZ Portrait Awards three times, won the Telecom Regional Art Awards and had his artwork featured on the cover of nearly 1million Auckland phone books as well as being named as the sixth most exciting business within the arts and culture sector by NBR.
Which is not bad for someone who first picked up a paint brush 12 years ago.

Lorraine Blackley
A creative and social entrepreneur, Lorraine has 20 years experience in designing and facilitating programmes supporting people to step into their full potential. Author of "Creative Process Chart", an illustrated book that you can use in personal and professional settings to stay motivated and on track to manifest whatever it is you want. She is a creative process consultant and transformational coach.

Russell Toplis
Russell Toplis is a highly experienced top business accountant with PKF Melville Chartered Accountants and Business Advisers. He brings many years of experience to providing general business support from preparing business plans through to wealth preservation. He loves working with creative people and businesses and is able to make people feel at ease around discussing accountancy and financial management.

Justin Lewis
Justin is a founding partner of Indian Ink and collaborated with Jacob Rajan to create the company’s works: Krishnan's Dairy, The Candlestickmaker, The Pickle King, The Dentist's Chair and Guru of Chai. Indian Ink's productions have won numerous awards. As well as Justin's involvement in Indian Ink, he is Deputy Chair of Q Theatre having been heavily involved in its development from the beginning. In 2008 he received a Kaupapa Oranga Award for his services to theatre.

Hinurewa (Hinu) te Hau specialises in cultural management, particularly, creating cultural frameworks for creative entrepreneurs and social enterprises. Her vocation for the past decade has been to work collaboratively across the public and private sectors as a conduit for cultural & economic transformation as a strategist, advisor, and implementer.

Hinu is a member of the team delivering ART Venture, an acceleration programme for creative entrepreneurs working in the Auckland region. She is also the Executive Director of the first ever Maori Business Centre in the Auckland Region, responsible for its development and growth. As the Chair of the newly formed Matariki Festival Trust, Hinu also has a leading role in the three year transition plan for Auckland region’s 'Matariki Festival' including moving the Festival from Council control to the newly established Charitable Trust.

Richard Howard
Richard Howard has a multi-faceted career in the creative sector including drama and musical theatre performance, arts management and production, events and promotions management, creative sector infrastructure development and the design and delivery of professional development opportunities for creative entrepreneurs. He has been part of projects such as The Big Idea website development, the New Space Programme, ART Venture, ART Generator network, Survive & Thrive, Kingsland Central Studios and the Arts Cooperative Resource exchange.

Yvonne McLaren
Yvonne has spent ten years building her company Valentine Addis, which helps great New Zealand businesses raise investment from high net worth individuals and seasoned investors. Yvonne is passionate about creativity, innovation and invention.
Yvonne also runs an music artist management company and is a trustee on the Houhanga Rongo Trust which supports people from extremely difficult backgrounds to rebuild their lives.

Josie Campbell
Josie's career has always been about stakeholder engagement, whether it is working with schools in the charity sector, managing media relationships, or more recently jumping feet first into the world of social media as part of her role as Communications Manager at Performing Arts venues THE EDGE. She uses social media tools as an everyday part of her working life to engage with audiences, build rapport with influencers and generate buzz around events.

Kaye Avery
Kaye is an experienced career coach and Master NLP coach-practitioner. In her 12 years of working with people Kaye has developed a reputation for her professional yet holistic approach and effective outcome focused coaching.