Fruitbowl - Fresh Ideas from Hawke's Bay

Sir Stephan Tindall was in town tonight to launch KEA Hawkes Bay. The first regional KEA subgroup in New Zealand.

It's a big deal that the Bay is the first New Zealand KEA region. Nice work Venture Hawkes Bay.

The Hawke's Bay group is the first regional sub group of Kea's global network of 25,000 talented New Zealanders living and working around the world.

Kea chief executive Ivan Moss says Kea Hawke's Bay is a pilot for similar local networks in other parts of the country.

"Kea Hawke's Bay will promote the lifeblood of the local economy and show expat Kiwis and friends of Hawke's Bay how to plug into business networks and opportunities," says Ivan Moss.

The launch was held at the stunning River Room. There were even people Trout fishing down below!

KEA is an amazing network and one that is there for you to use to connect to almost any organisation you need to in the world.  Marketing the Bay to the KEA network makes it more likely we will attract our best and brightest back, promote local products through the network and attract inward investment.

You can find out more about the benefits of KEA and get all your overseas buddies to register at http://keanewzealand.com