Mike Hutcheson

Independent Director

Mike co-founded leading advertising agencies; Colenso BBDO and Hutcheson Knowles Marinkovich, culminating his advertising career in Auckland as Managing Director of Saatchi and Saatchi.

He has written five books including his latest on creative ways to reinvent yourself post Covid.  He has produced humour and innovation columns for newspapers and magazines and has been named Business Columnist of the Year in the Magazine Publisher’s Awards. He is a director of a number of private and public companies and is a regular television guest and commentator. In 2021 he was inducted into the Marketing Hall of Fame.

He has a Master of Philosophy degree (1st Class Hons) – his thesis was on the Alchemy of Innovation in New Zealand business He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and in 2017 he was appointed an Adjunct Professor at Auckland University of Technology.