android. Today, it’s the most awarded mobile agency globally and was listed by Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the Top 100 Brightest Ideas of 2010 and Brandweek’s 10 Biggest Ideas of 2008. Meredith Corporation (NYSE:MDP) acquired the company in 2009. I went on to co-found mobile media network, Snakk, which listed on the NZX in 2013, becoming one of the first publicly listed B-Corporations in the world for its commitment to social and environmental goals.

Setting a precedent for the types of models Aera aspires to continue creating, in December 2011 I donated a year of my life (became two..) to help Sir Richard Branson, Founder of the Virgin Group, and many other amazing inspiring global leaders to help create what is now The B Team. The B Teamis a non-profit leadership group formed to catalyse better ways of doing business for the wellbeing of people and the planet. This means going beyond the assumption that business exists solely to make profits. It means challenging business to accelerate its role in driving human rights, climate justice, equality, diversity, transparency and much more, in the face of the incumbent wisdom that businesses exist just to maximise shareholder wealth.

Kind people have named me one of the top ten social entrepreneurs to follow on Twitter; to the ‘Silicon Alley 100’ of the most influential technology people in New York; the Real Leaders magazine 100 Most Visionary Leaders. In my home country of New Zealand I have been nominated as a KEA World Class New Zealander; Sir Peter Blake Trust