James Brown recently retired chair of Ngai Tai ki Tamaki, 2009 – 2022 however he remains Managing Director of Ngai Tai ki Tamaki Property Company, Whenua Limited.
He owns and operates a private consulting company, Moehewa Limited based in Commercial Bay and this consultancy specialises in south pacific infrastructure projects and has government agencies and private enterprise as its clients located across the pacific and south-east asia.
James is also kaumatua for The ICE Base, (since 2018) and chair of the ICE Base Foundation (since 2021) a connector of Maori and Pasifika rangatahi with their education options and professional careers. Over the past four years (2018-2022) the ICE Base has directly connected over seven hundred (700) Maori and Pacific Island talent into tertiary education across Aotearoa. The ICE Base is located in six (6) countries including UK, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Aotearoa.
James is currently designing and delivering Māori leadership courses for Maori emerging talent and future leaders as a continued part of his commitment to empower and enable ‘ngā taonga i tuku i hoa’ or the materialisation of Māori talent, emerging Māori leadership in every Māori DNA.
James was selected by the Waiohua-Tāmaki mana whenua representatives.