Evelyn heads the Banking and Finance Practice at Lane Neave, a full-service law firm located in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Queenstown. With top tier domestic and international experience, Evelyn brings over a decade of banking and finance experience in complex and high-value transactions.   This includes corporate and institutional lending transactions (syndicated, bilateral and club facilities), leveraged and acquisition finance, property and project finance and trade finance.  She has also acted as the lead legal counsel coordinating offshore counsel as well as acting as New Zealand counsel on international transactions. Evelyn also has expertise, particularly in securitisation and other structured and financial products (including derivatives) and she regularly provides advice to her clients on financial sector regulation.

Deanna is the founder of Moustache Milk & Cookie Bar. As a first-generation Chinese New Zealander, Deanna had written “Open a cookie shop” at the top of her Bucket List when she was eight years old. After graduating with a Bachelor of Communication Studies, she decided to fulfill her childhood dream. At the age of 21, she opened her business Moustache Milk & Cookie Bar which now has almost 50,000 fans on Facebook, two little stores & a food truck.

Xana is an actress who was recently cast as Mulan's sister in the upcoming Disney live-action Mulan blockbuster. She made her breakthrough at age 16 when she was cast in director the award-winning film Matariki. Following this, she had a lead role in the television comedy Hounds. The show went onto win Best Television Comedy Series at the 2012 New Zealand Film and Television Awards. Other screen roles since include; The Almighty Johnsons, Power Rangers and Filthy Rich, The Letdown and Dead Lucky.

Sheila’s journey to business has been one of many challenges, lessons and learnings. She is co-owner of Smartspace, which she grew from a team of 4 employees to 30 in 6 years. She is a fearless leader who values people, connections, relationships and giving everything a go. This led her to her next venture, as a shareholder in Agile Workspace – a collaboration between Smartspace and an I.T company to create smart locker solutions. This year, to diversify from her corporate career, she established Soul Sisters Co – a space for hardworking people who have a passion for quality food, people and a place to call home. She will be launching her first café with her Japanese business partner Miki - ‘Mi-La’s Place’ early May. Her vision is to help Asians find their true passion and live a life of happiness, being true to who they are.

Franky is a banking professional at BNZ with a track record of working in the Commercial, Corporate and Institutional Banking sectors across China, Australia and New Zealand. He is specialized in large and complex Merger & Acquisition transactions, Cash-flow and unsecured lending, Property Investment and Development lending, Leveraged Finance and International Working Capital Solutions. Other than banking, Franky volunteers with Cure Kids as the first Asian Special Advocate and is tasked with promoting the Cure Kids brand in the Asian community in New Zealand. Franky also sits on the Board of Kāhui Tū Kaha to support the diversity and inclusion from culture and ethical aspects to ensure proper governance is in place for the organisation that is part of Ngati Whatua