Business Networking + 2 Speakers

James Tapper – Founder & MD, Benefaction

James Tapper is the Founder and Managing Director of Benefaction, a social impact agency that helps brands to create and communicate authentic social initiatives.

While working for a private consulting firm, James came to the conclusion that the old-fashioned ‘sponsorship-marketing model’ was broken so he set out to fix it.

Since launching Benefaction last year, James has worked with a number of clients to create social good projects and charitable partnerships that earn brands big love at the same time as making a genuine positive impact.

James strongly believes in the ability of enterprise to be a force for positive change and he is passionate about helping businesses unlock the performance benefits of doing good for their communities.

Lisa Mead – Founder & Director, Social Currency

Tom Dickie – Property Development Consultant

Tom Dickie has significant experience in Public Private Partnership procurement having provided Technical advisor services to both public sector procuring organisations and private sector special purpose vehicles in respect of £500m of investment projects.

In conjunction with a team of like-minded professionals the HUB Communities Charitable Trust has been formed. The HCCT team are in the process of launching a design, build, fund, manage and operate community development and affordable housing supply chain platform to act as a catalyst to bring together public sector participants and private sector investors to deliver measurable and auditable open-book housing affordability and positive and measurable social value outcomes to New Zealand.