 Kia ora koutou. Ko kālahau kā mā hau no Ngāti Purao Ngātahu Ngāti Kahuninu and I'm the Associate Dean for Māori and Pacific Development here at the Business School. It's a huge honour for us to host the Māori Business Leaders Awards every year but it is equally a huge honour for us to be able to provide an environment where we're nurturing young Māori Business Leaders of the future and I'm proud to be able to introduce you to some of them. A Māori Business Leader to me is someone who can walk comfortably in both te ao Māori and te ao Pākia because in Aotearoa it's really important that we can share our knowledge and inspire everyone. To me a Māori Business Leader is someone who has integrity for those values that they corrupt with. Being a Māori Business Leader means giving back to the community and inspiring young rangatahi to be the best they can be. Being a Māori Business Leader is not about the individual but the collective. It's about who you bring along with you because good leaders make more leaders. A Māori Business Leader to me is someone who is driven to give back to their people, a person who has mana and a person who has humility. Being a Māori Business Leader means that you take your true self to work. It means that when you go into the workplace you are able to be who you are and you are able to take the values which you grow up with. Being a Māori Business Leader also means that you are a role model for rangatahi, for our youth that are coming through. You are showing them the way and showing them that they can in fact enter the business world and they too can be themselves and do good things for their communities and for their whānau. So to me a Māori Business Leader looks like someone who is comfortable i te ao Māori me te ao Pākeha. A Māori Business Leader is someone who shapes the pathway for us to follow. For me a Māori Business Leader is someone who understands where they come from and why they are here today and uses that to achieve success not only for themselves but for Māori as a whole. Someone once told me a leader is someone who can lead but someone who can also serve. So for me a Māori Business Leader is someone who can peel kumitas but also stand up at the next or pair and present on the pipeway but also someone that can represent our people.