Tauranga investors interested in learning more about the angel investment space will get an opportunity later this month when American chair-emeritus of the Angel Capital Association John May visits the region.
"There are two ways of learning about angel investing " by doing it and by hearing from people who have done it a lot," said Bill Murphy, executive director of Enterprise Angels, the Bay of Plenty-based group which has become one of the largest and most active angel groups in New Zealand.
"Any of us who have been involved in EA for a while will tell you that the visits of people like Bill Payne and John Huston to EA have been critical in deepening our knowledge and making us better investors."
The Angel Association of New Zealand is bringing Mr May out from the US.
Mr May has been at the forefront of the angel investor movement and is managing partner of the New Vantage Group, which has organised five angel investing organisations in Washington, D.C. placing funds into more than 50 companies. In addition to having chaired the national US angel association, he is a lead instructor for the "Power of Angel Investing" seminars, a programme of the Angel Resource Institute.
