The Bachelor's Art Green must be keen to move on from reality-show days (and makeup-related media controversies) to focus on his food business. He was spotted in the aspirational crowd at EY's Entrepreneur of the Year finalist announcement evening at ASB on North Wharf last week.
Green's business, CleanPaleo, which he owns with friends Mitchell McClenaghan and Ryan Kamins, has tapped into the Paleo diet trend and makes protein powders, breakfast blends, biltong and other grain-, dairy-, gluten- and preservative- free snacks. Sources say Art was not entered as a contender for the award this year, but he may have been there to scope out the competition and build up his business contacts. And perhaps he is keen on being in the mix for next year. The EY event at the flash open-plan ASB head office went off without a hitch as business leaders and budding entrepreneurs networked over drinks.
Legends in Black
Business and sporting stars mixed and mingled at Eden Park on Thursday night for the Legends in Black evening with sporting greats Sir Brian Lochore, Sir Graham Henry, Stephen Donald and Jonah Lomu the guests of honour. ASB's corporate team were there in force as one of the principal sponsors along with NZME. Other business faces at the event included head of Jetstar NZ Grant Kerr, KPMG executive chairman Ross Buckley and Spark Digital's David Tse. All Black great Lomu spoke of his two sons and the difficulty of explaining to them why people always wanted his autograph. He said MasterCard's latest ad featuring the catch phrase "Lomu Lomu Lomu" had been interesting when his son pointed out that Jonah's last name was also Lomu.
