24-07-2025
Dodgy director banned for deceptive practices: Is this NZ's most witless wheeler-dealer?
He sold big dreams. A TV network for the famous dairy in Boy; a big budget Warner Bros Pokémon movie production in the Bay of Plenty; an America's Cup village powered by a 'wind tree'; a 220-hectare family fun park; a star-studded winter golf tournament at Wairakei; pie-in-the-sky streaming data hubs operating from service stations....
To a greater or lesser degree, the liquidation of Latitude Dynamix Holdings entangled everyone from fuel company boss Jimmy Ormsby, former Tauranga mayor Tenby Powell and ex-finance minister Grant Robertson, to Hollywood producer Cassandra Cooper, broadcaster Peter Williams and the family of Taika Waititi. The firm's director was invited to speak to the local Rotary in July 2019. His speech was titled 'Twenty years in Silicon Valley and new data hub in Tauranga'.
