The Supporters Club · APEX · University of Otago Business School
New Zealand organisations standing behind industry-connected education. From the boardroom to the undergraduate and from undergraduate to job.
Supporters, not sponsors. These are the New Zealand organisations who want a hand in what Otago is building, not just a logo on it.
They believe the best education is built alongside the people who go on to hire its graduates. They want to be in the room and help shape it, not fund it from the outside.
Otago is building one connected machine. Senior leaders come into the room through APEX; the businesses they lead become the real cases our students learn from; and the thread runs all the way to undergraduates building judgement with AI before they graduate.
Supporters make that loop real. You help close the gap between what industry actually needs and what a graduate walks out the door able to do.
There are many ways in, and most of them are time, access and direction, not money. The first conversation is never about funding. It's about what you can see that we can't, and what your organisation needs from the people we teach.
Early supporters are New Zealand organisations that wanted in before there was anything to point to. More are joining.
Being a supporter starts with a conversation, not a pitch. If your organisation wants to stand behind this, talk to Jess Luxton, who leads the Supporters Club.
Email Jess