Tracy Atkin

Startup Coach

2024 - Current

Finding and developing Aotearoa New Zealand’s earliest entrepreneurs through a nationally coordinated startup coaching program.

Board Chair

2021

Governance and Capital Strategy Advisor, Board formation and acting Chair.

Independent Director

2022

Supporting Rangitāne o Wairau to continue to grow sustainable wealth, status and influence through it's commercial activities.

Independent Director

2022

Co-Founder and Board Chair

2021

Co-founder of a Social Enterprise to give back to RSE workers from the Pacific Islands in our primary industries. We provide sponsorship to fund RSE workers into micro-entrepreneurship with No Interest Loans, financial literacy and business mentoring. We also provide scholarships to fund disadvantaged students in the Pacific Islands into education. We provide clean energy cookstoves to replace open fire cooking and a community fund to finance local environmental and social initiatives.

Chief Executive Officer

2020

We invest in start-ups and small businesses to help them grow and thrive. MCL provides funding, capital raising and corporate advisory services to small and growth-stage businesses, including strategic planning, business mentoring and governance. We connect Founders with each other and broad networks to maximise synergies within our portfolio. We work with a range of investors to syndicate deals, and are sector agnostic, but with a growing agtech portfolio.

General Manager

2017 - 2020

Establishing a national grape and wine research institute in Marlborough, and leading two key initiatives - a climate change adaptation research programme for the NZ wine industry, and building a national research winery in Marlborough.

Project Manager - Sustainability

2014 - 2017

Leading a Continuous Improvement project to extend the Sustainable Winegrowing NZ Program. Project-managing the software implementation of Sustainable Winegrowing NZ's new Scorecard platform. Strategic planning. Business Process Re-engineering. MPI viticulture financial benchmarking programme.

Process Improvement Consultant

2008 - 2014

Management Consulting, specialising in full life-cycle project management, end-to-end process re-engineering, accounting and business management. Consulting to both the wine industry and financial services industry.

Management Accountant

2012 - 2014

Financial and Management Accounting. Business Process Improvement, focusing on stock management.