Brooke Martin

Mindflint, a company that creates a shared language for irreplaceably human thinking.  In a world where AI is dominating every conversation, Mindflint draws upon evolutionary biology, psychology, and innovation theory to help people and teams understand how they think, and why that’s so important.

Brooke’s career started at IHUG in the early days of the internet, before her law degree led her into government policy at the Ministry of Commerce and IP and IT law at Kensington Swan.   While in Wellington, she met her future husband and courted him by completely destroying him at Quake so many times that refused to ever play her again.  They then moved to London when he was posted to the New Zealand High Commission, and they started a family.  Sadly, this meant that Brooke’s gaming days were over.  

Returning to New Zealand years later, Brooke learned the dark arts of venture capital at Powerhouse Ventures, and deep tech commercialisation at AgResearch and Ara Ake. She was named Commercialisation Professional of the Year at the KiwiNet Awards, and more recently returned her love of gaming (in a different way) by serving as General Manager of a multimillion-dollar gaming company in Christchurch.

Brooke’s claims to fame include meeting Neil Armstrong at a fancy diplomatic dinner (not realising that he was the guest of honour) and being a labelled ‘subversive’ in a performance review.  That’s probably why she runs her own company now.