Andrew Hamilton - Vice Chairman

Andrew Hamilton - Vice Chairman

Andrew-HamiltonAndrew 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 – Bank of New Zealand, Boston Consulting Group, Ernst Young, HP, Microsoft, Minter Ellison & Telecom. Since 2001, we have worked with 65 start-ups and just under 2,000 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 participates in a number of activities to assist building out New Zealand’s innovation system including:

  • Chair of Angel Association New Zealand which was founded in 2008
  • Chair of Incubators New Zealand from 2003 to 2006
  • Board member of angel investor network ICE Angels
  • Investment Committee for the ICEHOUSE Start-Up Fund a proof of concept fund founded with two of New Zealand’s leading families to invest in companies from the ICEHOUSE
  • Board member of ANZATEC – the Australian New Zealand Technology Forum based in Silicon Valley, a group who is tasked with creating a better gateway for NZ and Australian technology companies to enter the US.
  • Deputy Chair, the Auckland Metro Project which is focused on making the region a more innovative place

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 & Sales & Marketing Manager.