About us

Morpheus is an innovation agency specialising in commercialisation, growth, transformation, joint ventures and funding.

We are an amalgamation of deep domain experts, speakers, executives, founders, scientists, engineers, asset managers and funding experts.

Our methods are designed to align you with compatible sources of venture capital, private equity and debt funding, working with you to realise the value of dormant research, IP and other assets in parallel.

Vision

Our vision is to be like an injection of stem cells for your organisation. Omnipotent entities that can take on the form of anything your project requires to adapt, evolve and overcome, regardless of the nature of your challenge.

Intention

Our intention is to meet you exactly where you are to design and build the bridge to where you imagine you can go.

Mission

Our mission is to cross that bridge together.

Inspiration

Our inspiration is derived from pioneering leaders with an unwavering devotion to the effect of their cause.

Motivation

Challenge is what moves us. Nothing compels us more than the assumption of an impossible mission.

Let's design the perfect bridge and cross it together.

Our Team

David Ding

Consultant

Spokesperson/Chair
Fractional/Interim CEO
Fractional/Interim CIO (Innovation) Board
Director (Innovation)
Strategy
Org Design/Redesign
Portfolio Management

Advisor
Commercialisation
Startups & Spinouts
Executive Mentorship
Tribal Governance
Innovation Strategy
Novelty Assessment

Vendor
PowerHouse
Morpheus
David Ding Consulting

Technologist
Regenerative Systems/Ai

Speaker
Futurism
Innovation & Ai Adoption

LinkedIn

 

Chris Lennox

Consultant

Fractional/Interim CTO
Advanced Mechatronics
Mechanical Engineering
Robotics & General Automation
Regenerative Ai

Speaker

Advanced Mechatronics

Technologist
Robotics & Automation

LinkedIn

 

Sheri MacNeil

Consultant

Core Marketing
Strategic Planning
Branding and Rebranding
Content Marketing
Social Media Marketing
Email Marketing
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Public Relations (PR)
Copywriting
Design and Visual Communication
Video Production
Campaign Management

LinkedIn

 

Meg Buzzi

Consultant

Transformation
Unconference
Facilitation
Leadership Coaching
Indigenous Aligned Business Ritual

Vendor

Fixchr

Speaker

Interactive Events
Workshop Facilitation
Leadership Coaching
Indigenous Aligned Business Ritual

LinkedIn

 

Chent Thambiah

Consultant

Leadership Coach
Gamification

Vendor
Presence

Speaker

Motivation
Leadership

LinkedIn

 

Stevo O’Rourke

Consultant

Systems and process
Software development
Video production
Website

Design and UX

Contract performance management

Vendor

Te Ara Hiranga

Ocular

Leaders Are Made (TV)

LinkedIn

 

Arjan Noordhoek

Consultant

Requirements Management
Flow efficiency
Flow re-engagement
Event Modelling
Event Based Architecture
Event Sourcing

Vendor
Model My Code

Speaker

Event Modelling
Event Based Architecture
Event Sourcing

Technologist
Event Based Software

LinkedIn

 

Bailey Lenart

Consultant

Fractional/Interim COO
Fraction CSO (Chief Systems Officer)
Regenerative Systems
Systems Thinking
Organisational Change
Sustainable Accounting
Decarbonisation
Adaptive Project Management

Vendor

Collective Flow
World Changing Business

Technologist
Regenerative Software

LinkedIn

 

Dave Pomeroy

Consultant

Fractional/Interim CIO (Information)
Business Analyst
Ai Orchestrator

Speaker

Ai Agent Orchestration

Technologist
Generative Ai (Agent Programming)

LinkedIn

 

Shakeel Ahmed

Consultant

Fractional/Interim CTO
Technical Product Manager
Programmer (Machine Learning/Generative Ai/Python)

Speaker

Machine Learning
Generative Ai
Autonomous Systems

Vendor

Dealtable.Ai

Technologist

Autonomous Systems
LLMs
SLMs

LinkedIn

 

Blair Waipara

Rongowhakaata, Ngāti Ruapani, Ngāti Kahungunu

Consultant

Strategy & Performance
Asset Development and Management
Business modelling

Contract performance management

Social impact reporting

Codesign

Vendor

Te Ara Hiranga

Te Hono

LinkedIn

 

Aaron Tait-Jones

 

Ngāti Ruapani, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāi Tūhoe, Te Arawa

Consultant

Health, Safety, and Wellbeing
Governance reporting

Management Systems

Framework implementation

Documentation

Vendor

Te Ara Hiranga

LinkedIn