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Head of Growth

K&J Growth

I partner in leading a data-driven team to drive multifaceted growth marketing campaigns for companies around the world - we've worked with clients like TikTok, Monster Energy, Xfinity, Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment and hundreds more. Our team's work has been featured in Forbes, Entreprenuer, Inc. and several other media outlets. 

Get in touch with me at kale@kjgrowth.com

Co-Founder

Rugby Bricks

Rugby Bricks is a company that is building the bricks of knowledge for players, coaches, and supporters. As a partner of Rugby Bricks, I'm leading company growth, revenue and digital acquisition of building out the Bricks Family.

Managing Director

Hakune

I'm working to produce content that helps founders and business owners get the most from their time.

Rua Bioscience 

Supporting marketing strategies for Rua in international markets.

Board Observer

Forbes Communications Council

As a member of the Forbes Communications council, I publish content on the Forbes platform and act in a position as a globally recognized leader within my industry.

Member

Influencive

I'm the most shared contributor at Influencive with having had over 500,000 views on my work alone.

Most Shared Contributor

Central Fitness Cromwell

Launch infrastructure, membership recruitment, budget management and talent acquisition and training.

Advisor

The Huffington Post

Producing high-quality content for entrepreneurs and companies.

Contributing Writer

Thrive Global

I help companies and individuals worldwide expand their businesses by growing and exploring their markets through world-class digital marketing. 

Here are some of the names we've worked with that you will recognise: 

Comcast | Universal Pictures
ByteDance | Tik Tok
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment | Digital Boost
Monster Energy
Microsoft
and many others . . .

Who do we work with?

- B2B lead gen
- Apps 
- High-volume user acquisition 
- SaaS

What do we do? 

- Organic and paid social media
- NFTs & Cryptocurrencies
- Growth marketing and market strategy
- SEM, SEO and DSP buying

A little bit about us as a company (https://apac.kjgrowth.com/): 

Our content has had over 10 M+ views, I'm the Most Shared Contributor at Influencive (one of the US's top 30 media brands), and our work has been featured in Inc., Huff Post, Entrepreneur, Forbes and much more. We've won numerous awards, from the Whakaata Māori Waitā Business and Innovation award to ranking 28th on the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing companies.  

If you're looking for any opportunities to work with us, shoot us a message: kale@kjgrowth.com

I'm a managing director at Rugby Bricks, a company focused on bringing world-class knowledge, mindset, and skills in the professional game to amateur coaches and players. If you want to get involved or help grow the game of rugby globally, shoot us an email: contact@rugbybricks.com

Lastly, I write a weekly newsletter with my mate Rhys about business, mental models and personal growth - you can have a look here: www.hakune.co/newsletter

Kale Panoho

Aware Group

Proud to be supporting Jourdan, Brandon, Jay and the team, stepping into Brandons big shoes as Chairman of the board to enable him to focus on the hyper scale growth and role as CEO.

The Aware Groups purpose is to enhance life through the ethical and sustainable use of Emerging Technologies. We are a globally recognised leader in emerging tech led by our unique blend of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

Aware partners strategically and exclusively with Microsoft and have a stacked trophy cabinet of industry awards. Most recently we have been recognised as Digital & Application Innovation Award at the 2021 Microsoft Aotearoa NZ Partner Awards and Microsoft Malaysia Partner of the Year for 2021.

We are the only true ethical cognitive intelligence platform on the planet! Through 8 years dedicated to solving some of the worlds most complex business and citizen challenges through the use of custom AI and ML technical solutions, we have developed a portfolio of AI and ML 'as a service', built exclusively for the Enterprise that enable Industry Vertical Envisioning, Rapid Activation & an Accelerated Realisation of Tangible Business Value.

For those non tech business leaders amongst us, when it comes to "counting, classification, intelligent insights and recommendations" for action (for nearly anything) at scale and in real time - Aware is the platform and partner for you.

Chairperson of the Board

Tū Ātea

Connecting Māori to spectrum opportunities.

We’re building an eco-system for Māori to participate and innovate in the telecommunications sector.

Tū Ātea (Māori Spectrum & Telecommunications Services), previously known as the Interim Māori Spectrum Commission, was established by the Māori Spectrum Working Group (MSWG) in 2020 to hold the long-term rights to telecommunications spectrum.

Tū Ātea is developing its commercial strategy to enable its use of the spectrum allocation resulting from the agreement between Māori and the Crown. Its Spectrum Innovation Platform includes support for research and development, testing, prototyping and training for Māori on a range of wireless technologies.

Independent Director

Forma Insights

Excited to work alongside Forma Insight's Founder Luke Abbot to see him realise his epic vision for a new generation of Movement Intelligence through "Forma Insights."

Forma truly has the power to elevate the performance of the worlds elite athletes while also extending the quality of life of the eldest in our community by bringing lab grade sports science you at your place and pace.

Investor & Director

Native Data

Excited to be embarking on a new journey in both an Advisory and Governance capacity supporting the most ambitious Kiwi Founders and Executive teams to accelerate the realisation of their dreams while helping their businesses to dominate here at home and on the global stage.

Founder & Director

Cultivate Trust

The Cultivate Trust purpose is clear: 
We exist to accelerate the growth, success and diversity of Waikato's tech and digital sector.

While also seeking to attract, inspire and grow the next generation of innovators and founders in the Waikato.

We represent and work alongside a passionate collective of Waikato businesses, education providers and public sector

Founding Trustee

Stealth Startup

Cyber Security Software Startup. 
Expected to be 'Out of stealth' in 2024. Watch this space!

Knode

Chaired the Board of Knode until recently. Knode are Aotearoa's leader in IoT for agriculture. Developing NZ's first economical (and tin free) Automated Proactive Asset Monitoring & Tracking platform. Knode helps you track and measure assets from water to wheels that are critical to driving efficiency into your agriculture or viticulture business. Check out knode.co.nz for more detail.

Be Intelligent

Proud to have joined Mikal, Amanda, Kirsty and the team at Be Intelligent as the inaugural Chairman.

Be Intelligent is Australasia's most trusted Salesforce Partner keeping businesses ahead of the curve by driving efficiencies, effectiveness, insights and results. 

With deep consulting expertise and unique portfolio of 24x7 manage operate services, Be Intelligent are first and foremost business problem solvers. We combine our technical prowess and bring critical thinking, a raft of experience, fresh perspective and a strategic outlook to everything we do. Our role is to challenge and guide our clients to the solution that ensures they get the most from their Salesforce investment.

At Be Intelligent we believe the future belongs to those who have the courage to step outside the bounds of convention; to be bold, be innovative, be intelligent.

The Instillery

Founder

Founder / Director + Board Member

Refined business solutions for the cloud era. The Instillery was born to deliver Corporate, Enterprise and Government velocity.

We are an award-winning Kiwi company born in the cloud and automation era, servicing clients across the globe. But we're a business with a conscious committed to doing the right thing for our customers ALL the time and equally committed to elevating Aotearoa's future.

With a fresh young lens, thirst for innovation and a cloud agnostic, data-driven approach, we enable organisations to securely develop and release new products and services significantly faster, with lower risk, at a lower cost and more frequently than ever before.

Our cloud, Security and managed services solution set includes multi-cloud and digital transformation consulting, managed services and smart data for big and small business. Our service product approach ensures a high velocity, economic path to leveraging the benefits of cloud and automation.

We’re passionate about delivering tangible business results for our customers wherever they might be on their cloud journey. Engagements are driven by data and overlaid with real world business context to put what we’re seeing into perspective for your organisation and objectives.

We believe in EMPOWERMENT over Dependency and approach commonly referred to as cloud ‘co-pilot’ as opposed to holding the controls at ransom. We do this by sharing access, information and people, ensuring total transparency.

So.. when we say we’re truly cloud agnostic, we mean it!

The time for ANY cloud is here. It's a matter of when, not if.

Founder & CEO

Know No Bounds Charitable Trust

Inspire our Waikato community to join the hustle for change, to connect and to do something good that matters for our children. 

TOGETHER, OBLITERATING BOUNDARIES.

Board Member

Professional Director

Ko Mike Jenkins toku ingoa (My name is Mike)
Ko ngati raukawa - Koputaroa oku tupuna (My ancestors are from raukawa)
Kei Tamahere, Waikato au e noho ana (I live in Tamahere, Waikato)
He kawei tautika mai ki a ahau
(A direct descent line to me - Great Uncle Piri Sciascia (from his own waiata, Rongorito).

Professionally, I felt like the tech industry chose me as much as I chose it - nearly being 'born in Tech' following in my parents Ross and Gaynors footsteps.

Im a geek at heart + always been intrigued by techs unique ability to connect, engage, impact & transform ALL sectors and this combined with the huge personalities of 1990's and early 2000’s ICT in New Zealand

In 2015 Mike catapulted into the spotlight being recognised as a rising star of the Hi-tech arena following his confirmation as emerging ICT leader of the year at the NZ CIO awards in 2015 - only 2 years after founding The Instillery.
 
He 'grew up' in the early days of Computerland era of NZ tech in the Waikato, his first gig was loading Novell floppy disk sets onto Compaq machines in the 90's as an after-school job.

After graduating from AUT University Mike honed his skills and garnered a truly global perspective through co-op years studying in Portsmouth, UK & Boston University, USA.
This commitment to lifelong learning has continued through IT multinationals in Australasia with Logical, BM, Cisco and now as Founder of The Instillery, co-founder of Knode - Agtech IoT Platform and Nobility: the socially responsible big data engine.

Since exiting the Instillery in 2022, Mike has turned his attention to supporting other kiwi tech founders to realise their own goals, disrupt industry leveraging the power of tech

While massively respectful of the matua that blazed the trail of NZ tech before him; Mike is not afraid to publicly challenge the traditional "suit and tie" mafia, fat margins, hidden underbelly of protectionism + lack of diversity encountered in NZ's traditional tech sector.

He leads bravely by bringing a fresh new lens and a commitment to tangible business outcomes shared reward - all underpinned by proven modern technologies including the public cloud, machine learning, automation, security intelligence and privacy by design to help solve the business problems of today as well as those on the horizon that we may not yet be aware of...

Mike has a focussed mission; Legacy + Loyalty over Currency. All with the goal of creating exciting new opportunities for kiwis while positioning the Waikato (NZ's true heart of Digital)+ Aotearoa's tech sector to lead on the GLOBAL stage

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