Tautoko Enterprise Support Team
Tautoko is a team of business professionals with a wide reaching range of complementary skills. This consortium was established with one aim in mind: to provide an independent and neutral vehicle to help build Maori entrepreneurship in a way that maintained the tino rangatiratanga of the businessperson and/or business whanau.
Members of Tautoko team work in this area because it is their passion and because the Tautoko consortium allows them to contribute in a meaningful way to the renaissance of Maori entrepreneurship.
Management Team
Maori Tourism Mentoring Programme Assessors and Mentors
Maori Business Facilitation Service - Taitokerau Region Mentoring Team
Management Team
Tim Mulcare, CEO  | Tim is of Ngati Tama / Ngati Pakeha descent. Tim has a PhD specialising in economic history and industrial organisation and has skills in research, analysis and evaluation. He has held positions of responsibility in tertiary institutions (including university lectureships and research fellowships), in programme management and development and in the development and improvement of Maori SMEs and land trusts. His sectoral interests include the primary and creative sectors. |
Johnny Edmonds, Director  | Johnny Edmonds has tribal affiliation to the Ngapuhi Maori tribe in NZ. Johnny's university qualifications encompass land surveying, town planning and public policy. His work experience of 35+ years spans both land administration and the creative sector industries. Johnny has held positions of responsibility in the NZ government including Director of Planning for NZ national parks and reserves and Commissioner of Crown Lands He has served in senior executive positions for the NZ NGOs including Te Papa Tongarewa National Museum of NZ and Waitangi National Trust, Bay of Islands. Johnny has served as Chief Executive for Maori organisations including Taitokerau Maori Regional Tourism Organisation and the NZ Maori Tourism Council. He provides the Secretariat for the NZ Maori Creative Sector Alliance. Johnny provides land and business advisory services to Maori communities and businesses and serves on various Maori Trust and Company Boards of Directors. |
Nigel Brereton, Director  | Nigel's university qualifications are a Bachelor of Commerce in accounting and a MBA from the University of New England. His work experience of 24+ years spans both chartered accounting and company accounting in New Zealand, Australia and Papua New Guinea. Nigel is currently a partner in a 4 partner practice in Whangarei servicing the Northland region. He has also held positions company accountant, group accountant and financial controller. He provides business advisory services to an extensive range of profit and not-for-profit businesses in Northland. |
Tunney McFadyn, Director  | Originally from Fiji, Tunney’s background is in strategic planning and implementation, developing management systems, and not-for profit capacity building. Tunney's approach is to keep planning simple and practical. He has been a teacher and worked for two technical institutes before setting up his own business consultancy in Auckland. During this time he worked with companies in New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, and USA. Tunney is based in the Far North of New Zealand where he has been assisting companies and community groups develop a range of business activities over a wide spectrum of industries. His sectoral expertise is in education and training. |
Billy Mulcare, Director  | Billy is of Ngati Tama / Ngati Pakeha descent and is based at Karetu in the Bay of Islands. She has a background in local and international finance, and research / business analysis. Her sectoral interests are innovation, creative sector, tourism and general marketing. Billy is also a director of BIZNorth, the company responsible for managing and delivering the government's Enterprise Training programmes in Northland. Click here to find out more about the Enterprise Training Programme. She is passionate about working alongside Maori businesses and entrepreneurs, in particular helping them to access funding and assistance to start their business, or to develop and expand and existing business. |
Leah Edmonds, Administration Manager  | Leah Edmonds has tribal affiliation to the Ngapuhi Maori tribe in NZ. She has undertaken tertiary studies at the University of Victoria (Wellington) and completed a Bachelor of Tourism Management with Honours and a Bachelor of Commerce and Administration majoring in Maori Business and Human Resources. Leah has considerable practical customer service work experience having worked within the tourism and hospitality industry in the Bay of Islands and Wellington. She has also undertaken research projects into Maori tourism in support of Maori regional tourism initiatives and Maori business development. |