Scott Gilmour named New Zealand’s 2019 Arch Angel
Scott Gilmour has been awarded Angel Association New Zealand’s (AANZ) Arch Angel Award today at the 12th New Zealand Angel Summit in Christchurch.
Scott is an experienced high-tech company founder and director and an active Ice Angels member and former board member. In 2002 he founded the first I Have A Dream project outside the USA to help kiwi children.
The Arch Angel Award is the highest honour in New Zealand’s angel investment community, given to those who best exemplify the quintessential angel and who are champions for the endeavour making a significant difference to New Zealand’s start-up ecosystem. As well as their personal capital, Arch Angel recipients share their time, insights, deeply relevant skills and their networks with high growth start-up companies.
The recipient is chosen by the previous years’ winners.
Scott Gilmour has over 35 years experience in the high tech industry, including 12 years with Intel in the United States and New Zealand. He co-founded a successful enterprise software company in the United States in 1989, ABC Technologies Inc., which was sold to SAS in 2002. He served for seven years on the NZ Trade and Enterprise Beachheads Board. And has served as a director and investor in a number of New Zealand tech companies, including Jade, Nextspace, ResourceWare, ViFX and Winscribe.
In 2002 Scott founded and funded the first “I Have a Dream” project outside the United States to “inspire dreams and enable futures” for kiwi children who are living in material hardship.
As a super active angel investor, Scott has invested in over 60 ventures. He is a founding member of Auckland-based Ice Angels, having joined the network at its inception in 2003 and served on the board for four years between 2006 and 2010.
Current Angel Association Chair and fellow Ice Angel, John O’Hara, says Scott has been a lynch pin of New Zealand’s first formal angel network.
“As a founding member of Ice Angels, I doubt there are many, if any, other Ice Angels members who have been such passionate and committed champions of angel investment. Scott has personally introduced and “closed” more new Ice Angel members than any other I can think of,” he said.
Scott received his award at the 12th New Zealand Angel Summit, held at Pemberton in Christchurch and attended by 160 delegates. The annual event provides a hub for angels to learn and network, and is recognised as one of the world’s top angel events. This year’s summit is exploring what it is about scaling an angel-backed venture from New Zealand which gives it a unique comparative advantage when it comes to creating exponential value.
Former Arch Angel winners include The Warehouse founder and long-time angel investor Stephen Tindall; Andy Hamilton, chief executive of The Icehouse and member of IceAngels; US super angel Bill Payne; Movac venture capital firm founder, Phil McCaw; veteran angel investor Dr Ray Thomson; prolific AngelHQ member, Trevor Dickinson, former AANZ Chair, Marcel van den Assum, ardent angel investor, Debra Hall and champion for kiwi start-ups, Dave Moskovitz.
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For more information, please contact:
Suse Reynolds, AANZ executive director
mob: 021 490 974 or email: [email protected]
John O’Hara, AANZ chair
mob: 021 040 3198 or email: [email protected]
The Angel Association of New Zealand (AANZ)
The Angel Association is an organisation that aims to increase the quantity, quality and success of angel investments in New Zealand and in doing so create a greater pool of capital for innovative start-up companies. It was established in 2008 to bring together New Zealand angels and early-stage funds. AANZ currently has 40 members representing over 800 individual angels associated with New Zealand’s key angel networks and funds. AANZ works closely with NZTE and Callaghan Innovation and a number of private sector partners including Jarden, PWC, Avid Legal, Baldwins, KiwiNet, Uniservices, Amazon Web Services, BNZ and BECA. For more, please visit: www.angelassociation.co.nz