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Gyro Step Podcast Network: Covering all things Milwaukee BucksLuka Trade, Giannis/Dame pairing, disappointing Bucks and more with Tim MacMahonGSPN's Bucks podcasts are presented by PrizePicks – Go to PrizePicks.com/Gyrostep and use code Gyrostep for a $50 bonus when you play $5! Pick more. Pick less. It’s that easy.ESPN’s Tim MacMahon, who covers the NBA’s Western Conference and just wrote The Wonder Boy, a great book you should go buy detailing the Dallas Mavericks dealing with the pressure of contending with a young superstar in Luka Doncic, joined the Gyro Step! Ti Windisch and Rohan Katti took turns asking Tim a bunch of questions, including how he learned about the Luka trade and...2025-04-0451 min
Making Money a Force for GoodMeet the 2023 Impact Investment Fund Award WinnersMindful Money Awards celebrates the funds that lead the way in investing in positive social environmental benefits and in climate action. This is a rapidly growing and hugely important part of the investment world, and crucial for our future. This seminar profiles two of this year's winners. Bill Murphy is the founder and CEO of Purpose Capital, who took home the Best Impact Investment Fund for 2023. The judges were impressed by the clear focus for the Purpose Capital Impact fund, and the sound framework for impact measurement. This includes the important step in inc...2024-01-0445 min
This Climate BusinessClimate Investing: Panel Discussion from Auckland Climate FestivalWhat does climate change mean for investing - is it a disaster, creating havoc due to storms and ecosystem collapse and ultimately stranded assets? Or is there an upside, as companies discover new tech, new markets and new ways of working? It's probably both! Vincent spoke with Shannen Barns (Mindful Money), Rohan MacMahon (Climate VC Fund) and Darcy Unago (NZ Everyday Investor) for a seminar during this month’s Auckland Climate Festival.2023-09-2547 minThis Climate BusinessWhat’s in store for 2023? Investment with Rohan MacMahonPart Three: Rohan MacMahon on investment and technology Is 2023 the year that New Zealand seizes the nettle on climate action? Or is it another year of incrementalism? And what effect will the election, with a potential change of government, have on the direction and speed of climate policy? To shed some light Vincent dusted off the crystal ball and spoke to three experts about the year ahead: Marc Daalder Newsroom’s climate reporter; Dr Victoria Hatton, director of sustainability and climate change at PWC; Rohan MacMahon, partner at the Climate Venture Capital Fund. 2023-02-0616 minThis Climate BusinessWhat’s in store for 2023? Corporate strategy with Dr Victoria HattonPart two: Victoria Hatton on corporate strategy Is 2023 the year that New Zealand seizes the nettle on climate action? Or is it another year of incrementalism? And what effect will the election, with a potential change of government, have on the direction and speed of climate policy? To shed some light Vincent dusted off the crystal ball and spoke to three experts about the year ahead: Marc Daalder Newsroom’s climate reporter; Dr Victoria Hatton, director of sustainability and climate change at PWC; Rohan MacMahon, partner at the Climate Venture Capital Fund. 2023-02-0316 minThis Climate BusinessWhat’s in store for 2023? Climate politics with Marc DaalderPart One: Marc Daalder starts with the year ahead in politics.Is 2023 the year that New Zealand seizes the nettle on climate action? Or is it another year of incrementalism? And what effect will the election, with a potential change of government, have on the direction and speed of climate policy? To shed some light Vincent dusted off the crystal ball and spoke to three experts about the year ahead: Marc Daalder Newsroom’s climate reporter; Dr Victoria Hatton, director of sustainability and climate change at PWC; Rohan MacMahon, partner at the Climate Venture Capital Fund.2023-02-0112 minThis Climate BusinessFollow the climate money – Climate VC FundRohan MacMahon and Jez Weston are co-founders of the Climate VC Fund – a fund that invest in emission reductions technologies in NZ and Australia. They were on the show to announce their ambitions but a year on, what’s happened? Did they raise the money require? Have they invested in anything? What new tech or ideas are on their radar? And what’s the state of change? Full dsiclousre Vincent is an investor and a contractor to the fund. www.Climatevcfund.com2022-10-2549 minThis Climate BusinessVote Climate! The Team aiming for the Vector Board, via EntrustComing up: an election you probably won’t vote in for an entity you’ve probably not heard of. That’s right, it’s the tri-annual vote for the Entrust board, the majority shareholder of Vector Energy, Auckland’s electrical lines company. But wait, before you turn over and go to sleep, this time around it’s different. A consortium of climate campaigners and motivated professionals is challenging the comfortable incumbent alliance of C&R, formerly known as Citizens and Ratepayers, which have dominated the Entrust board for the last 500 years. To explain what they’re up and what it all...2021-09-2036 minThis Climate BusinessInvesting in Climate Ventures - Rohan MacMahon and Dr Jez WestonClimate Venture Capital Fund is a new venture investment fund that invests in, you guessed it, climate ventures. It’s the first of its kind in New Zealand and has just made its maiden investment, in Australian energy company MGA Thermal. Vincent is joined by two of the founders of the fund, Rohan MacMahon and Dr Jez Weston. Disclosure: Vincent works for this very fund as an advisor.
2021-08-0940 minThis Climate BusinessWhat is Project Drawdown? With Rohan MacMahonWelcome to Climate Briefs, the summer series for This Climate Business. I ask a simple question, our experts give a succinct answer. Because in the end everyone likes a tight brief, right?This week I ask Rohan MacMahon about Project Drawdown, most comprehensive list of greenhouse gas reductions projects, from peat farming and poo fuel to photosynthetic paint and synthetic cows.>> The World's Leading Resource for Climate Solutions: https://www.drawdown.org/
2021-01-1812 minThis Climate BusinessJacinda declares climate emergency! So what does that actually mean?Last week Prime Minister Jacinda Adern declared a Climate Emergency. In Parliament she said: “This declaration is an acknowledgement of the next generation … of the burden that they will carry if we do not get this right and do not take action now.” The declaration has been a long time coming and follows the example of many other countries and cities, including some in NZ. So what is a climate emergency? What difference will it make? And what other ‘emergencies’ get bumped off the agenda as a result? With me to discuss this move are two climate campaigners...2020-12-0735 minThis Climate BusinessLakes, tomatoes and seaweed: what are the 70 best Kiwi climate tech ideas?Jez Weston and Rohan MacMahon are technologists scouring New Zealand to find the best and brightest projects to address climate change. Or more specifically, to find technologies that offer the greatest emissions reductions, for the lowest cost, in the least amount of time. They have identified 70 projects that fit the bill – from renewable energy and carbon capture to electric bikes and algae. Vincent asked them what’s the best, the worst, and what they’re still looking for. About Jez WestonJez has 15 years’ experience in policy and climate advice including translating climate science i...2020-09-2137 min
NZ Tech PodcastNZ Tech Podcast 384: Talking Tech, Digital, Innovation and DisruptionA special NZ Tech Podcast episode with Paul Spain (Gorilla Technology) and Rohan MacMahon (Woolemi Consulting) talking through a range of topics around New Zealand technology, innovation, disruption and more.
Links:
www.nztechpodcast.com
www.paulspain.com
www.gorillatechnology.com
2018-04-1757 min
CrossTalk24 Jan '13 - New Zealand's Laissez-Faire Approach to BroadbandAustralia’s NBN demands no fixed line competition but New Zealand is openly embracing it.In this first episode of CrossTalk, Phil Dobbie compares the two approaches, helped by Rohan MacMahon, Strategy Director at Crown Fibre Holdings and economist Arron Schiff from consulting firm Covec. Dr Stephen Gale, the telecommunications commissioner at the Commerce Commission, talks through some of the regulatory issues.As you’ll hear, the biggest difference relates to copper. Australia is turning it off, New Zealand will keep it going for some time to come. In parts of the country where Chorus hasn’t got...2013-01-2425 min