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Our Trading Trust Trustees
Enabling and guiding our financial supports
Graham Pryor - Chair
Iwi/hapū: Ngāti Rangitihi
Graham is a director and chair of Te Mana o Ngāti Rangitihi Ltd, the corporate trustee for Te Mana o Ngāti Rangitihi Trading Trust, which is responsible for managing the investment assets of Te Mana o Ngāti Rangitihi Trust. Graham is an accountant by profession with a background in managing media businesses, business consulting, investment management and Treaty negotiation. He was one of a three-person negotiation team that successfully negotiated settlement of New Zealand’s’s largest Treaty claim with the Crown, settling all historical claims of eight Central North Island Iwi to 176,000 hectares of CNI forests land.
Merepeka Raukawa-Tait
Iwi/hapū: Te Arawa
Merepeka is a professional administrator with an interest in central and local government politics, environmental management, and Māori economic, and social development. Merepeka is an elected member of the Lakes District Health Board, a member of the Executive of the Rotorua Chamber of Commerce, a Ministerial Appointee on the Te Arawa Whānau Ora Regional Leadership Group, and an executive member of the Rotorua Social Services Council. She also runs her own consultancy, specialising in organisational development and change management.
Ian Dickson
Ian is a director of Te Mana o Ngāti Rangitihi Ltd.'s corporate trustee for Te Mana o Ngāti Rangitihi Trading Trust. He is a financial economist with a background in the New Zealand Treasury, investment banking, investment management and negotiation support. Ian was part of the team advising the Negotiators of the Ngāti Rangitihi Comprehensive Settlement. He is also the Investment Committee convener for the Te Pūia Tāpapa Fund, which has invested $100 million in long-term private equity investments on behalf of the nearly 40 Māori organisations that subscribed capital to the Fund.
Te Kapunga Dewes
Iwi/hapū: Ngāti Porou, Te Arawa, Te Whakatōhea
Te Kapunga has more than three decades of experience in the forestry, wood processing, and manufacturing industries. He currently serves as the CEO of Whenua Oho - a consultancy service offering advice and consultancy to Māori landowners - and Interpine Innovation - a company dedicated to integrating cutting-edge technology into today's forestry practices. Te Kapunga holds positions on various Māori Trusts and government advisory groups and presides as the Chair of Ngā Pou a Tāne – The National Māori Forestry Association. His passion lies in generating economically viable opportunities for Māori Landowners in Forestry.