Founding Partners & Advisory Board

Migrant Investor

• Fintech entrepreneur
• Co-founder of Boursorama
  (France)
• Early investor in Tikehau
  Capital (Euronext Paris)
• Invested in 10+ NZ unlisted
  tech companies and funds

Managing Director, Migrant Investor

• Founding partner of Zino
  Ventures
• Invested in 10+ NZ
  tech companies
• Co-founder & GP of Nexus Capital fund I ( FoF) 

• Angel investor
• Tech start-up advisor
• Independent director
• Specialising in early
  stage governance for high growth companies.

• Consultant to business 
• Former Director, Investment Programme at Immigration New Zealand
• Former Director, Stakeholder Engagement,  Education NZ
• Former Director, International Affairs at FMA and NZ Securities Commission
• Former NZTE Regional Investment Director, East Asia, at NZ High Commission Singapore. Senior Trade Commissioner, Indonesia. Trade Commissioner, Malaysia and Brunei.

Melinda is a New Zealand Permanent Resident who recently shifted back to Auckland after 20 years from the San Francisco Bay Area.  For the past seven years, Melinda was the Investor Migrant Manager for North America (working for NZTE and Immigration NZ), helping investors learn about and navigate the investor visa path to New Zealand.  Before that, she worked for many years at Stanford University in major gifts fundraising for the Graduate School of Business and for Stanford Athletics.  Earlier in her career, Melinda worked in consumer marketing with the Clorox Company.  Melinda holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations and an MBA degree, both from Stanford University.