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Key Contacts at Tamaki Group Holdings
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 Mike Tamaki
Director / Owner (Ngati Ngawaero/ Tainui/Te Arawa)
Phone: +64 21 772490
Email: mike@globalstorytellers.co.nz
Mike Tamaki’s focus is on innovative ideas, with an overriding creative vision and inexhaustible energy to bring people and resources together on new projects. Mike ‘multi-tasks’ the strategic management of Tamaki Heritage Group and has sat on and widely consulted for various industry boards, including the New Zealand Tourism Board, the Maori Subcommittee, the Tourism Industry Association of NZ and the Aotearoa Maori Tourism Board, to name a few.
Mike was a New Zealand tourism award judge over four consecutive years. Mike is driven by a passion for telling our Maori stories in a ways that are compelling, original, dramatic, innovative and always distinct. He is vehemently opposed to duplication of product and is driven by a will to grow the pie – as opposed to fragmenting it further.
He hones quickly and deeply to core Maori stories, themes and the qualities of individuals, regions and tribes and loves nothing more than to drive these original pieces to success. He is a strong and empathetic communicator with all levels of an organisation – able to zero-in quickly on the strengths, personality and character of people, of stories and of products.
Mike is also a recipient of the Ernst and Young International Entrepreneur of the Year (1998) and Sir Paul Harris Fellow award in recognition of better understanding and friendly relations among peoples of the world. Mike is at heart a deeply spiritual and thought-provoking ‘tourism agent provocateur’ and is passionate about profiling Maori and Indigenous tourism development opportunities and issues.
 Doug Tamaki
Owner/Director (Ngati Ngawaero/ Tainui/Te Arawa)
Phone: +64 21 301111
Email: doug@globalstorytellers.co.nz
Doug Tamaki was famously convinced to sell his Harley for the funding to start up Tamaki Tours (1989) and today is a Director of Tamaki Heritage Group, a company that employs over 120 staff with an annual turnover of $12mil. Doug’s primary focus is operations and logistics. Doug manages the day-to-day management of Tamaki Heritage Group across all their key locations.
Doug’s energy is strongly honed toward HOW an idea will work. A heavy dose of ‘kiwi-can-do’ thinking is part of his makeup. Doug takes an idea and grows it step by step in to reality, regardless of the challenges along the way. Doug has a distinct and disarming style which leads to firm positive relationships with those he is often called upon to mentor. He is constantly in demand within tourism and other groups, by individuals, businesses and large conference groups. He has a quick humour and pragmatic experience, which frequently cuts quickly to the core of an issue. Doug is solution-focussed, positive and high energy.
 Kiri Atkinson-Crean
Group Business Development and Marketing (Ngati Kahungunu/Ngai Tahu Mata Whaiti - Iwitea)
Phone: +64 21 741501
Email: kiri@globalstorytellers.co.nz
Kiri has led the sales and marketing division of the Tamaki Group of businesses since early 2003. She has extensive distribution chain networks across segments. Kiri drives the consultancy arm of the Tamaki business and is involved in product development, from concept, to fruition. This includes research, feasibility, launches, campaigns and sales strategies. She has worked on indigenous tourism projects in New South Wales, Perth and Tahiti to date as part of the consultancy.
Originally a broadcasting journalist, Kiri has solid marketing communications experience, with significant experience in Maori tourism development and networks. On behalf of Air New Zealand, Kiri developed Air NZ’s first Maori / web-based, direct-to-consumer strategy in 2001 / 2002. The product was linked via a set of powerful stories and it included emerging product as well as iconic Maori product from the sectors of adventure, heritage and accommodation.
Her work within regional brand development for Rotorua in 1998 was central to two consecutive New Zealand tourism awards that followed, including the Distinction Award - the first for a Regional Tourism Organisation. Kiri has a love for Maori storytelling and people, which is balanced against a commitment to sustainable business success. This is also involves ensuring product doesn’t duplicate, is distinct and is of a high quality. By marriage Kiri is linked to Te Arawa - her husband and children of Ngati Pikiao, Tuhourangi descent.
 Nadine Toe Toe
Group Sales Manager: (Ngaitai / Tainui)
Nadine has worked as National Sales Manager for the Tamaki Group since 2005. Previously Nadine has worked as the marketing manager for Hells Gate and Waiora Spa and prior to that was international marketing coordinator with Tourism Rotorua Marketing. Nadine has extensive relationships across the distribution chain, Maori operators / networks and other product and across segments – FIT, cruise, group, MICE included. She is also well connected within the Maori tourism sector and beyond, within tribal networks.
Both Nadine and Kiri have worked on the Maori Tourism RTO in Rotorua in a number of different capacities. Nadine is creative, focused and driven to win. She is innovative, high energy and unflappable –and has a huge capacity to manage multiple projects at a time. Nadine also has a natural ability and desire to work alongside colleagues in harmony, while developing successful formulas to hold the Tamaki Group distinct and unique in the eyes of target audiences.
 Mereheni Meads
Finance (Ngati Pikiao/Ngati Whakaue- Te Arawa)
Mereheni is Finance Manager for the Tamaki Heritage Group of businesses. In addition to her day to day responsibilities; managing tax, accounting services, debtors and creditors for the group, Mereheni also fulfils an important management role. Mereheni develops financial solutions and targets and projections for the company, manages key banking relationships and provides immense support for the marketing and sales teams, with her proven accuracy, speed and expertise. She works in an unassuming but hugely valuable way – balancing the innovation and creativity of the team with science, structure and proof. Working together with marketing, sales and product development staff and consultancy clients, Mereheni helps determine rate structures and budgeting / forecast models and performs financial testing of marketing theories.
She has experience across numerous accounting packages, from those used by small businesses to corporate models. Mereheni also singlehandedly redesigned the reservation system for the Tamaki Group. A key part of her role over the past year has been to integrating external financial management in to a highly efficient and effective internal financial model, specifically for Tamaki Heritage Experiences. Mereheni also manages payroll, human resource development, contracts and works alongside Doug to ensure smooth operations of the tourism products. Mereheni’s skills are a strongly practical set of strings to the Tamaki bow.
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