Rachel Taulelei, Ng\u0101ti Raukawa kit e Tonga\/Ng\u0101ti R\u0101rua, is a prominent business leader and a strong advocate for the M\u0101ori economy and sustainability in the food and beverage sector.<\/p>
Her commitment to kaitiakitanga has been evident throughout her career, as founder of sustainable seafood company Yellow Brick Road in 2006, to her time as CEO of M\u0101ori-owned food and beverage company Kono, and now in her current role as co-founder of business design and brand strategy firm, Oho.<\/p>
She has held a number of governance roles, with a particular expertise in primary industries. She presently chairs Moana NZ Ltd and the Wellington Regional Stadium Trust. She serves as a member on the boards of the Warehouse Group, ANZCO Foods, the APEC Business Advisory Council, Young Enterprise Trust, and acts an advisor to venture capital firm Movac.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":1529,"template":"","staff-category":[67],"class_list":["post-1528","staffs","type-staffs","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","staff-category-our-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hihotest2.co.nz\/sealord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staffs\/1528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hihotest2.co.nz\/sealord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staffs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hihotest2.co.nz\/sealord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/staffs"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hihotest2.co.nz\/sealord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hihotest2.co.nz\/sealord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"staff-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hihotest2.co.nz\/sealord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff-category?post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}