The Executive Committee is the engine of the Unlimited Potential train, providing energy and direction. Below you'll find a line-up of the current committee.

Feel free to e-mail us with whatever is on your mind.

Marie-Claire Andrews
Sponsorship
Joined 2006

I'm just a sucker for hanging out with clever people with ambition and drive.  I joined the UP committee because this network is totally where its at for innovative IT entrepreneurs, and hopefully I might get to call myself one of those soon.  Its also a great place to keep your ear to the ground on emerging trends in our industry generally and of course there is a pile of clever people with ambition and drive to meet. Right now my day job is at Positively Wellington Business as the first point of contact for high-growth potential businesses in the greater Wellington region - so if you have an idea bursting to get out, or a company you want to make millions with please come and talk with me!

 

 

Jo Booth (mangee)
Network Facilitator
Website, Communications & Membership
Joined 2004

CARD System Admin - Intergraph SG&I
Trustee - MovieFest Trust
Network Facilitator - Mesh|net

I joined UP back in March 2004 after attending an UPstart with Mark Blumsky. I'd just been an a previous non-UP event and someone invited me along for the free beer and pizza.  I had a thoroughly enjoyable evening and soon got hooked on the networking potential with UP. At the time I had hobbies and interests that kept me quite involved in the ICT scene, but was working in the AEC industry as a design engineer. 
 I joined the UP Executive Committee in July 2005 after a spectacular Apple Event because I was impressed by the events UP put on and inspired by the opportunities for making UP even better.

 One of my passions seems to be trying to make the world a better place. I try. I'm involved with a number of local networking organisations and projects including WelMac, and play with Apple computers everyday. 
 I'm usually first in line to try a new thing, especially if it's an improvement.
 Since 2002 I've been involved in the setup and running of a Charitable Trust for MovieFest, a nationwide digital short movie competition designed to showcase and encourage some our homegrown talent.
 A project back in 2004-2007 was Mesh|net, which is a collective of people wanting to break through the bandwidth limits holding NZ communities back from their potential. Mesh|net has morphed into encouraging community collaboration while providing hosting & network services, but the list goes on...

Unlimited Potential is something I'd love to say I could achieve, and UP is a part of that.

 

Martin Ehrenstein
Treasurer
Joined 2006

I only count Java beans. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tim de Jardine
Casual Member, Joined 2008

 

Sarah Lock
Joined 2007

 

Ruth McDavitt
Joined 2007

 

Kirsten Rose
Casual Member, Joined 2008

 

Nick Rowney
Casual Member, Joined 2007

Paul Spence
Casual Member, Joined 2008

Paul Spence has been involved in the NZ technology business networking scene for over six years since establishing ION a virtual community for innovators and entrepreneurs. He is the director of management consultancy GeniusNet Ltd and runs the popular GeniusNet blog. Paul is also CEO of ideegeo Group limited, a technology services and consulting start-up company.

links:
ION - http://www.ion.net.nz
GeniusNet - http://geniusnet.blogtown.co.nz
ideegeo - http://www.ideegeo.com

 

 

Jayne Wallis
Committee Member, Joined 2007

Jayne Wallis recently returned to Wellington and joined Unlimited Potential, with a desire to be part of the Wellington ICT community and wanting to make contributions to that community by helping organise networking events.  There's self interest with her involvement - Jayne is trying to start-up her own web company (The Lifebox Company Limited) and enjoys the opportunity to hear others speak about their experiences at UP events.  Jayne blogs about life and work bits and pieces at www.lifeboxarchive.blogspot.com, and runs a government consulting business Fivepeas Limited on other days to help pay for her caffeine addiction and the rent.  

 

 

 

Bronwyn Holloway-Smith
Committee Administrator
Joined 2007