MERERAINA PIRIPI

Mereraina brings fourteen years’ experience of chartered accounting, financial and  project management to her role. Mereraina has worked for a wide range of groups  from KPMG to Māori health providers in Te Hiku as well as starting her own  company, He Māori ahau. Born and raised in Te Hiku until the age of nine,  Mereraina returned to Ahipara in her early twenties where she helped rebuild her  childhood whānau home. Mereraina has a blended family of five children and in  her spare time enjoys fishing, the beach and reading.