James Burnes

James is a product development consultant with 20 years working product marketing, entrepreneurship, and intrapreneurship. He leads Startup Queenstown Lakes as Chief Executive, with a responsibility to build the local community, develop and oversee entrepreneur and investor programmes, and to establish a role for the District In the national startup ecosystem. He’s a mentor and organizer for Startup Weekend, organiser of Tourism Tech Expo and is currently helping develop the South Island-wide startup ecosystem partnership.