Biography

Kiriwaitingi is of Te Arawa and Ngati Awa descent and is the CEO of Maori Investments Limited, an asset holding company in the eastern Bay of Plenty that has an asset portfolio that includes forestry, several kiwifruit orchards, and a retail blueberry business.  Her career has included management roles in a Treaty post-settlement entity and prior to that, as a solicitor and in-house counsel.

Kiriwaitingi holds a number of governance roles including Deputy Chair of the Maori Kiwifruit Growers Forum, Chair of Putauaki Trust, Ngati Awa Group Holdings Limited and the Bay of Plenty Rugby Union.  She was also a Future Director of Auckland International Airport.