Ask Me Anything: Start-up governance

Panel Discussion

Fully booked

Speaker(s): Scott Mason
Date: 12:30pm — 1:30pm, 22 June 2021
Venue: ASB Dunedin
Location: Level 1, 248 Cumberland Street, Dunedin
Price members: $25.00 incl GST
Price non-members: $35.00 incl GST

Overview

Join our panel of directors for this informal and interactive “Ask Me Anything” event. This is your opportunity to ask those burning questions you have about how start-up organisations can ensure good governance standards to ensure a sustainable organisation when funds and/or expertise may be lacking.

Our panel who will share their stories and experiences at this event are Nigel Bamford, Scott Mason and Sarah Ramsay. Numbers are strictly limited to enable good interaction with the group.

Panellists

Nigel Bamford

Nigel is the CEO and founder of Escea which has grown into a successful fireplace manufacturing company with a range of indoor and outdoor gas fireplaces and wood and electric fireplaces. Escea was a start-up company 18 years ago and is now positioned as the most popular fireplace brand within NZ and Australia.

Nigel has been a mentor, investor and supporter of the Dunedin start-up business community for the last decade serving seven years on the board of Startup Dunedin and also as a director and investor in several young Dunedin companies.

Scott Mason

Scott has been a practising Charted Accountant for over 25 years, specialising in advising medium/large businesses and HNWI, and is a qualified mediator/ADR practitioner. Scott’s governance career has been building over the last 10 years, and he is now primarily a professional director across a range of industries and entity types, with a special interest in early/mid-stage tech companies (soft and hard).

Current roles include directorships with City Forests Limited (Dunedin City Council owned), NomosOne Limited (leasing SaaS), Southern Motor Group Limited, Banqer Limited (children’s financial literacy), and Bison Group Limited (container weighing/lifting). Scott has a passion for ensuring learning and personal growth opportunities are available to everyone who wants such, and has been actively involved in a range of education and training entities as a speaker and governor.

Sarah Ramsay

Sarah has been Co-owner and Director of United Machinists since 2016. Sarah was the winner of the 2018 winner of the Westpac Otago Future Business Leader Award and has a wealth of business and marketing experience and has particular industry knowledge in manufacturing, technology, healthcare and commercial property sectors. Throughout her career, she has worked with both established and early-stage companies, as well as running her own consulting and angel investment business, Immersion Ventures. Having worked in Sydney and Christchurch, Sarah loves living and working in Dunedin. Alongside working at United, she holds numerous governance positions, including Trustee Startup Dunedin, founding board member of the Southland Otago Regional Engineering Collective, Founding Board Member and Chair of Mainland Angel Investors, Advisory Board Member at KITT Property Management and is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Directors.

Additional information

COVID-19

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