CEO, The ICEHOUSE (Auckland)

Andrew Hamilton was the founding CEO of The ICEHOUSE in 2001.

The ICEHOUSE is a business growth centre that creates learning environments for entrepreneurial firms to enable them to significantly grow their companies.

It is a charitable trust founded in New Zealand by the University of Auckland Business School and some well known New Zealand and International Companies – BNZ, The Boston Consulting Group, Ernst & Young, HP, Microsoft, Minter Ellison & Telecom. Since 2001, we have worked with 65 start-ups and just under 2,000 established entrepreneurial firms. We have raised $35m for these start-ups and our owner managers are growing their EBIT on average 31% per annum.

As part of his role at the ICEHOUSE, Andrew serves as Chair of the Angel Association in NZ; Board member of ICE Angels; Board Member, ANZATEC – the Australian New Zealand Technology Forum; Deputy Chair, the Auckland Metro Project; Director, Start-Up Media; and he is an Investment Committee member for the ICEHOUSE Start-Up Fund.

Prior to joining the ICEHOUSE, Andrew was CEO and Director of Inventure, Fletcher Building’s venture capital arm which he established in 1998 and before that he did a range of different things from lawyer, to Executive Assistant, Retailer of a Lawn Mower Business & Sales & Marketing Manager for Kiwi Icon Masport.