Waikato-Tainui member Michelle Kemp is the second appointee to the Te Ohu Amorangi programme.
Michelle Kemp.
Tainui Group Holdings (TGH) has today announced the next ‘Future Director’ to be appointed under Te Ohu Amorangi Future Director programme.
The new appointee is Waikato-Tainui member Michelle Kemp (Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Makirangi).
Kemp is an Auckland-based principal planning consultant with more than 16 years’ experience in planning for both the public and private sector. Her experience includes the preparation of large-scale, complex resource consent applications; advising iwi-owned businesses; and working through planning solutions for sites and places of significance for iwi.
Tainui Group Holdings chair Hinerangi Raumati-Tu’ua welcomed Kemp as the second appointee to the Te Ohu Amorangi programme, which seeks to foster talented future commercial governors for the iwi.
“Te Ohu Amorangi will enable Michelle to gain governance experience in a Māori-owned business and commercial environment, rounding out the technical expertise in planning she has developed over her career and brings to her role every day,” Raumati-Tu’ua said.
Kemp said she was honoured to participate in the future director programme: “I will relish the opportunity to learn from the governance processes and conversations that sit behind these intergenerational investments. I am particularly interested in contributing to the social, cultural and economic progress and the investments that help advance the people of Waikato-Tainui.”
Chair of Te Whakakitenga o Waikato (the iwi parliament) Parekawhia McLean and Te Arataura (the iwi executive committee) chair Tuku Morgan also welcomed Kemp’s appointment and the ongoing role of Te Ohu Amorangi in developing iwi talent.
“The dozens of quality applications we received for our Te Ohu Amorangi programme this year points to the growing level of governance talent within Waikato-Tainui,” Mclean said.
Morgan said: “Michelle is representative of our unstinting determination to provide opportunities to the talented rangatahi from the Waikato marae communitie.”
The inaugural appointee to the programme was Lee Taharangi Gray (Waikato, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Apakura, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Kahungunu), appointed in 2019 for a two-year tenure.
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