Barry Soutar Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Awa, Ngāi-Tai-ki-Tāmaki, Ngāti Kahungunu-ki-te-Wairoa, is a director of TORO Studios, a creative technology company based in Tairāwhiti, and a director of the AMO Collab, a national collective of 20 of NZ’s best export-focused creative production companies. Mr Soutar is also a director of Toro Technology and the executive director of Te Tira Toi Whakangao (T3W), a tech venturing network that connects and drives Māori involvement in the tech sector.
Mr Soutar has been a chair of Orawa, a cultural leadership programme assisting whanau into the future of work. Formerly a director of Te Runanganui-o-Ngāti Porou, a director of Ngāti Porou Seafoods Group, the chair of Te Taurahere-o-Ngāti-Porou-ki-Tāmaki, the vice chair of Toitu Ngāti Porou Trustee Ltd and a director for Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki Tribal Trust. He’s previously held roles with New Zealand Trade and Enterprise and Callaghan Innovation. Prior to these, he built a successful export software company with business partners operating for more than fifteen years in the location intelligence industry.
