Callaghan Innovation director resigns as Manaaki row escalates

Callaghan Innovation director resigns as Manaaki row escalates
Tech sector kaumatua Ian Taylor has dived into an issue that prompted a Callaghan Innovation director to resign at the weekend. (Image: NZME)
Pattrick Smellie
A director of the government’s innovation agency, Callaghan Innovation, has resigned, apparently because of its handling of due-diligence reports relating to a celebrity-backed private firm said to have won more than $5 million in government work during covid.However, the firm at the centre of the controversy, Manaaki/We Are Indigo, has broken its silence to defend its record and alleges a “clear conflict of interest” in the preparation of the reports should have been disclosed and “should have disqualified” the in...

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