PopUp Business School Aotearoa was brought to New Zealand by Tony Henderson-Newport, founder of Kea Inspire. Kea Inspire was founded in the UK in 2013. A Kiwi to the bone, Tony has been around the start-up ecosystem for many years and realised the opportunity to enable the PopUp Business School Aotearoa in New Zealand was not to be missed. He has also facilitated communication workshops, projects and programmes to business and corporates in New Zealand and in the United Kingdom. 

PopUp Business School was founded in the UK in 2012 by Alan Donegan and Simon Paine. After several large coffees, they both realised that in order to find, inspire and help people start businesses (especially those people who've got it tough) you need to take a completely different approach. This led to the formation of the PopUp Business School.