• Wednesday 16 May 2007
  5:30pm - 7:30pm

• Location:  L28 Majestic Centre, 100 Willis Street, Wellington.

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Investment and Investors

UP delivers again. Want to gain some (free) insight into how individuals and organisations go for it in the financial support and investor stakes?  Need funding but don’t know where to go? Got the forms but having trouble filling them out? Hear from the ‘givers’ and a few successful ‘receivers’.  This will be a highly interactive session with discussion and questions throughout, so come prepared.

We’re planning a panel discussion – so here’s your opportunity to submit some leading questions to info@up.org.nz and go one-on-one with our brilliant line up of speakers. 

Keynote Speaker: Joseph Stuart, Business Manager from the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology, is responsible for delivery of the Technology New Zealand suite of schemes in the Wellington region, with primary focus on the Creative and ICT Sectors.  FRST aims at investing in innovation and fostering the creation of new knowledge.

Tim Norton, founded online business planning company PlanHQ.  Tim is an innovator in the web, driven by making simple easy to use solutions to complex problems that help small and medium businesses grow, compete, and succeed globally.

Broker David Caselli, Managing Partner of I Grow NZ Ltd.  I Grow is a niche corporate finance adviser that specialises in advising New Zealand’s high growth businesses and investors in the private equity and venture capital markets.

Michelle Cole from Trade & Enterprise New Zealand, will talk about the range of services and programmes offered by TENZ that can be used by companies from start-ups to established groups of exporters. They include advice, training, mentoring, funding, and business and market development assistance.

John O'Hara (http://www.johnohara.co.nz) provides advice to New Zealand-based high-technology companies to help build their businesses and to define and implement successful export strategies, as a director or consultant. He has personally established, and grown to successful exits, four New Zealand-based technology businesses.

Go to www.up.org.nz to RSVP (we’ve got a bigger venue – but don’t leave it too late) and of course there’s always the Networking, Beer and Pizza (courtesy of Hell’s Pizza – top of Cuba St).

We might have a few announcements of our own on the night so see you there!