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Auckland War Memorial Museum
Sep 06, 2022
Our guest speaker, Dr David Gaimster is the Chief Executive of our Auckland War Memorial Museum. David is an Englishman who came to Auckland in 2017 from his six-year role as director of The Hunterian at the University of Glasgow, the oldest museum in Scotland. His career spans 30 years of senior roles in museums and cultural heritage institutions. David has organised several major international exhibitions that have also toured internationally, including Pottery in the Making (Museum of Mankind, London, 1997) and Making History: Antiquaries in Britain 1707-2007 (Royal Academy, London, 2007). Dr Gaimster has published extensively on medieval to early modern European archaeology, museum collections and on international cultural property policy. David will be accompanied on his visit to us by Jane Sheetz, Head of Development at the Museum |
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Cryptocurrency and Web3
Sep 20, 2022
Robin is a serial entrepreneur with extensive start-up; investment and management experience in NZ, Asia and USA. He was Founder and Lead Investor of the Real Value Weekly newspaper; the NZ Advertiser; and Club-Card (a private credit-card company acquired by the Bank of NZ), plus numerous other business adventures, before forming Phoenix Management; a Venture Management Company in 1994. From 1994 to 2004 Phoenix Management raised over $100M for NZ start-ups in the New Energy and Biotech industries which exited by either IPO or trade sale. Robin divested his venture management interests in 2004 and since then has focused on decentralised technology initiatives. He is currently Executive Chairman and Lead Investor of DN 3010 Ltd, a NZ software company which owns the SYLO & Seekers brands, that build decentralised communications; wallets and NFT’s focused on blockchain and Web3 technologies. |
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