The CV of Finn Lawrence

Mevo is Australasia's first free-floating car share, launched in Wellington in late 2016. Mevo provides on-demand access to shared fleets of vehicles to registered Members via proprietary mobile apps. Mevo Members can find, reserve, lock and unlock cars using the apps, and only pay for the time they use.

Along with my excellent team, we're scaling a disruptive, high-growth business that is leveraging trends in emerging and exponential technology while delivering a desirable, world-class user experience.

Creative HQ is Wellington's Startup Base. We help bright people build brilliant businesses and fuel growth in the early-stage economy.

My current role is a mix of mentoring and advising early-stage ventures, and working with corporates and government to build internal entreprenurial capability. Additionally, my role includes working with the team on creating innovation management software prouducts as a Product Manager.

Lightning Lab is New Zealand's premier startup accelerator, based on the Techstars acceleration model out of the U.S. The seventh Lightning Lab programme, Lightning Lab XX carried the mission to discover and invest in women-led companies.

I worked with the Programme Director and managed a 7-person operations team. We delivered a full-time in-house programme of mentoring and Lean Startup coaching to a cohort of New Zealand's top early-stage companies.

Throughout my time at Assurity I was placed with a number of government and corporate clients on technical delivery work. Primarily, this consisted of infrastructure engineering and automated delivery, with a wider view to enabling digital transformation inside large organisations.

I initiated a number of internal innovation projects, and developed a bespoke internal piece of software to facilitate communication and collaboration across client sites.

Co-founded a data analytics software company and was selected for the 2014 intake of Lightning Lab, New Zealand's premier startup accelerator.

The business was successfully validated and developed throughout the course of the programme. Ultimately, a failure to secure a critical corporate partnership led to the closure of the venture.

Responsible for the daily operations of Wellington’s largest à la carte fine dining restaurant. Management of stock, staff, and customers in a high quality, high pressure, high turnover environment.

This varied from orchestrating wedding receptions and corporate functions, to serving the Prime Minister, to running the cast & crew after-party for the Premiere of The Hobbit.