Meet the Team A group of dedicated people who are the operational hub of the Popup Business School Aotearoa.
These are the people who present the PopUp Business School Aotearoa; people who you will see when you attend the Popup Business School. We also have an amazing Think Tank who believe deeply in the way that PopUp Business School can positively impact communities throughout Aoteaora. |
THE TEAM
Tony Henderson-Newport Chief kiwiKiwi to the bone, Tony spent many years living in the UK, returning to New Zealand in 2014. Tony is a business coach and mentor with a specific interest business sustainability and how an individual or business core message can be communicated. Tony also teaches entrepreneurship and the Art of Pitch at universities and business programmes in New Zealand and overseas. Tony also works with start-up and stay-ups having also worked in the IT space in New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Europe, he is an experienced project, programme and portfolio manager.
hemi Ruka (Gym Addict)
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Arzoo Syeddah
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Maria Henry
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TONY HENDERSON-NEWPORT
Founder PopUp Business School Aotearoa
A Kiwi to the bone, Tony spent many years living in the UK, returning to New Zealand in 2014. Tony is a coach and mentor with specific interest in how an individual or business core message can be communicated. Tony also works with start-up and stay-ups and having worked in the IT space in New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Europe is an experienced project, programme and portfolio manager. Tony works with Victoria University's young entrepreneurs. He has spoken at Westminster through his work with CEO's in the UK and been to an audience at No 10 Downing Street for his work in raising funds for charity. Tony is an author, a poet, a proud dad, passionate about all things Kiwi and has been delving into what makes up the Kiwi DNA... in other words, “what makes a Kiwi tick?”
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Meet The UK PopUp Team!
PopUp Business School was set up in 2012 by Alan Donegan and Simon Paine to respond to the state of the jobs market and the quality of intervention available to those people who want to make their own money. Traditional types of enterprise support don't work for a lot of people. The PopUp Business School was designed to fill the gap by providing high quality inspiration, support, interventions and acceleration for enterprising people. We want to help build sustainable communities by enabling people to create wealth. People that find the strength and courage to develop business ideas deserve the best possible help. We inspire, excite, build confidence and show individuals the tools available to give them every chance we can to succeed.
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Alan Donegan
When setting up his own business 9 years ago Alan went to Business Link who did more to scare him off starting than they did help! This experience inspired Alan to turn entrepreneurship on its head and he developed the PopUp Business School to support the people that are scared off by business plans, debt and bank managers. Alan’s first business was Enjoy Presenting running courses for people like Microsoft, Pepsi and Air Arabia. In his spare time Alan loves comedy, making pizza and occasionally playing with Lego. Winner of the 2016 Entrepreneur Of The Year Award at the Inspire Awards.
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simon paine

Simon has coached people from all walks of life: senior leaders of global brands to cake-making start-ups. After founding a website that went big state-side, he became regional manager for Business Link's start-up coaching & mentoring service, was Head of Centre for Entrepreneurship at one of the UK's leading colleges and after a three year stint as a collaborative leadership expert, he returned to the PopUp Business School to finish what he started.