Phillip Joe

Phillip Joe has over 28 years' experience in consulting, venture investments and investment management, and has operational experience in Australasia, Asia and the US. Mr Joe has a passion for entrepreneurship and in the funding, establishment and management of start-ups with disruptive products and services or niche markets. He is co-founder of Tomizone. Mr Joe began his career teaching accounting, finance and information systems in Victoria and Massey Universities in New Zealand, and as Visiting Fellow teaching the MBA programmes at the University of East Asia in Macau. Mr Joe subsequently held financial management roles at the Broadcasting Corporation of New Zealand and was managing director of Orient Consultants, a pioneering cross-cultural consulting firm facilitating trade and investment with Asia. The company co-founded other joint venture companies with Mr Joe as managing director, in property funds management (with H R L Morrison & Co) Asian Banking (with Countrywide Bank) and specialised China - New Zealand consulting (with China Minmetals NZ). He was a co-founder and past chairman of the Academic Colleges Group, which is now New Zealand's largest private educational provider of school education, university foundation studies and tertiary training programmes. ACG has 13 schools and tertiary colleges and recently sold to PEP for NZ$500m. Mr Joe has also served on private company boards and was non-executive director of public listed Cadmus Technologies. He holds a Master of Business Studies (Honours), Diploma in Business and Administration, and is a Chartered Accountant in Australia and New Zealand. He brings a wealth of entrepreneurial, strategic planning, financial management, operational and governance skills.