Our Team

Co Founder & Farm Manager
Patau Tepania

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Patau Tepania
Co Founder & Farm Manager
- patau.tepania@mauiinc.nz
Holds a Local Launch Masters Certificate and has been commercial fishing prominently around the Ahipara/Tauroa coastline for the past 32yrs. Patau has often fished between Whangapē to the South, along the length of Ninety Mile beach North to Cape Reinga on the West coast and also off the Rangaunu Harbour to Cape Karikari and Northward to Cape Reinga on the East coast. Patau's father (the late Kennedy Tepania) would often talk about his time and experiences on the water and of the historical kōrero and knowledge which was passed down to him by his grandmother Morehu Pene Ārano, who also fished aboard the community waka of that time. She spoke of the reefs at Ahipara as renowned fishing areas that have sustained and fed the people who inhabit this coastline, for generations.
Co Founder & Corporate Services
Maureen Te Paa

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Maureen Te Paa
Co Founder & Corporate Services
- accounts@mauiinc.nz
Maureen has a keen eye for community development and successfully manages community and Māori development organisations. Maureen is an expert in Operational Management, HR, finance and is very skilled at coaching and mentoring others. She loves cooking, crocheting, knitting, walking her dog, camping and loves being Nanny to the masses of grandchildren.
Chief of Operations & Communications
Tui Te Paa

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Tui Te Paa
Chief of Operations & Communications
- tui.tepaa@mauiinc.nz
Project lead at Te Hiku Iwi Development Trust for Economic Development. Tui is an integral and very capable member of her marae, takiwā and wider community. She has been an active and participating Trustee for two whenua Māori Trusts and her marae, Roma ki Ahipara, for many years. Tui comes from a very talented whānau of ringatoi (artists) and is a practising artist herself (weaving/tukutuku) who has recently obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in Māori Visual Arts, Massey University and a Bachelor of Māori Art (raranga/weaving) TeMaunga Kura Toi, NorthTech.

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