Share Collective, co-lead
Enabling founders and investors to donate equity to charity. When kiwi businesses succeed, community should benefit, too.
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Gift Collective, co-founder
Charity fundholding service enabling unincorporated initiatives to operate and receive funding under our umbrella.
Tauiwi Tautoko, advisor
Evidence-based course and community that trains and supports tauiwi to counter anti-Māori racism and be allies as tangata tiriti.
Innovators, entrepreneurs and investors with a vision of Aotearoa inspiring global leadership and solutions for future generations.
Researchers, thought leaders, activists, artists, and entrepreneurs working in post-capitalist fields and alternative approaches beyond economic growth.
The Gift Trust, trustee
Donor Advised Fund facilitating philanthropic giving, with $16m under management.
previous
Re-imagining fiscal sponsorship and online fundraising for the digital age, Open Collective enables a new type of transparent, collaborative organisation.
I held multiple roles in this network of entities (2017-2023).
Executive Director, Open Collective Foundation
Fiscal sponsor to hundreds of education, social impact, and civic participation initiatives in the US.
Founder, Open Collective NZ
Fund-holder for positive impact projects in Aotearoa New Zealand, enabling kiwi projects to operate without needing to incorporate.
Executive Director, Open Source Collective
Fiscal sponsor to thousands of open source software projects and related communities worldwide.
Chief Operating Officer, Open Collective Inc
Open Collective makes the open source software platform that fiscal hosts use to provide services to Collectives.
Enspiral, Co-founder (2011-2016)
Community of social entrepreneurs and changemakers who root their professional livelihoods in social impact, creating startup companies, innovative processes, and tools for collaborative organising.
Loomio, Co-founder (2012-2016)
Online app for collaborative decision-making now used by groups around the world. Worker-owned cooperative social enterprise tech startup from a team of technologists, facilitators, and activists.
Enspiral, Co-founder (2011-2016)
Community of social entrepreneurs and changemakers who root their professional livelihoods in social impact, creating startup companies, innovative processes, and tools for collaborative organising.
Loomio, Co-founder (2012-2016)
Online app for collaborative decision-making now used by groups around the world. Worker-owned cooperative social enterprise tech startup from a team of technologists, facilitators, and activists.
Dark Crystal, Co-founder, 2018
Back up your secrets using the trust in your social network, with a fully P2P decentralised app. Our first step in a bigger vision to make crypto and cypherspace more accessible to diverse people.
YWCA, Executive Officer, 2017
The YWCA empowers women, especially young women. I led national operations: funding, facilitating strategy, financial systems, reducing costs, and a complete website and communications refresh.
EHF Advisor & Selections, 2017-18
Bringing together visionary entrepreneurs, investors, and startup teams, to create positive global impact from New Zealand.
Co-founder
Collaborative funding tool that enables purpose-driven crowds to pool money and make decisions about how to spend it. Turns ideas into reality through collaborating with money.
Co-founder
International conference bringing people from technology, business, government, education, and civil society together to create a more open world. Applying principles of open source to all sectors.
Co-founder
Social lab for youth mental health and wellbeing, creating a flourishing society with technology, entrepreneurship, and community. Partnership of Enspiral and the Ministry of Social Development.
more projects
 Tauiwi TautokoCourse to learn how to counter racism online empathetically and effectively. |  Facilitator's GuideWhat if we started from facilitation principles and worked toward understanding software? Applying key facilitation concepts in the online space. |  Co-Op HandbookCo-author and instigator. Open-sourcing Loomio's processes and policies for running a co-op without bosses. |
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 Enspiral HandbookCo-author and instigator. Open-sourced how Enspiral works, and kicked off documentation-driven leadership in the network. |  Innovation CampFacilitator. Eco-hackers took over a castle in France for six weeks to live collaboratively and make open source hardware alternatives around COP21. |  Self Help Group AppAdvisor to a social enterprise making a digital tool for micro-finance savings pool groups in East Africa. |
 Open Data CoalitionAdvisor, consultant, facilitator. |  ConferenceWorkshopped the role of digital tools with this intersectional global movement. |  Community of PracticeManagement Innovation Exchange 'Mix Prize' two time winner and featured speaker in New York. |
 Startup AcceleratorMentor and advisor to sustainability startups out to reduce carbon emissions. |  Community of PracticePresented on digital facilitation tools and techniques at the 2016 AFN conference. |  SymposiumCreativity in France & New Zealand. Featured speaker and welcome delegation member. |
 Sister City InitiativeFounding member and supporter. |  Global MovementAdvisor and supporter |  Leadership NetworkActive member & Young Business Leaders Initiative participant in Thailand/Singapore. |
 Young ChangemakersConference volunteer coordinator. |  Startup AcceleratorMentor and advisor to social enterprise startups. |  Staff ConferencesPresenter and facilitator, improving staff communication and connection between individuals, departments, and across campuses. |
 Conference & EventsInitiator and co-organiser of a week of events catalysing the social enterprise ecosystem, including the first Social Enterprise Startup Weekend. |  Conference SeriesCo-organiser and facilitator, with the Ministry of Women. |  AdvisorFounding member, Young Managers Advisory Board. |
 GRIT CambodiaVolunteer. Bringing education technology into schools in Phnom Penh. |  Odanadi Seva TrustVolunteer. Rehabilitating children rescued from human trafficking in India, and raising funds in New Zealand. |