James Burnes

Trustee & Interim Head of Marketing & Community at Ministry of Awesome

James is a product development consultant with 20 years working product marketing, entrepreneurship, and intrapreneurship. He leads Startup Queenstown Lakes as Chief Executive, with a responsibility to build the local community, develop and oversee entrepreneur and investor programmes, and to establish a role for the District In the national startup ecosystem. He’s a mentor and organizer for Startup Weekend, organiser of Tourism Tech Expo and is currently helping develop the South Island-wide startup ecosystem partnership.


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Ministry of Awesome

Ministry of Awesome is the starting point for innovators, entrepreneurs and startups. We support early-stage entrepreneurs with ideas for projects, start-ups, social enterprises and more; to turn their ideas into reality. We do this through capability training, events and coworking.


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