Richard Shirtcliffe

CEO & Director @ Impact Businesses | Strategy, Innovation, Sustainability & Scaling Growth

📍 New Zealand🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2022
Operator-angel🌍 New Zealand
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Advisory Board Member | Investor
Mar 2018
Fractional CMO | Consultant | Investor
Jul 2013
We’re ikeGPS, the PoleOS™ Company. We help electric utilities, communications companies, and their engineering providers gain actionable insights on overhead infrastructure. Our data acquisition and analysis solutions transform how to design, construct, and inspect overhead assets and help achieve critical industry objectives, such as grid resiliency and fiber broadband expansions. With two decades of industry expertise, IKE has become the standard for eight of the 10 largest investor-owned electric utilities in North America and five of the 10 largest communications companies in the United States. Traditional methods of collecting and analyzing pole data are time and labor intensive and error prone. Unruly workflows, frequent reworks, and lengthy engineering and permitting processes wreak havoc on productivity. IKE is your partner in solving these pain points. We created a suite of solutions that enables dramatic productivity gains, reduces risk, and optimizes investments, while upholding safety standards. Designed and delivered with industry expertise, IKE solutions have wide-ranging use cases including pole inspections, field data collection, pole loading analysis, make-ready engineering, network-level assessments, and permitting. The result: Overhead asset management that is efficient, reliable and, above all, safe. Driven by our commitment to essential infrastructure and to the success and well-being of those who manage it, IKE innovates for the next generation of power and communications networks.
Board Chair | Investor
Feb 2013
The SEEN Safety System is the simple, effective, and affordable way to protect your pedestrian workers from accidents and injury caused by forklifts and other heavy mobile equipment. The SEEN Safety System gives real time warnings about high-risk pedestrian proximity and SEEN Insight’s AI classification system allows you to rapidly review high-risk operations and proactively address safety concerns. With increasingly complex workplace environments demanding strict health and safety practices, you need a simple and reliable pedestrian detection system to prevent collisions and promote safe behavior. No tags are needed, SEENs safety sensor transforms the common high visibility safety vest into part of an effective pedestrian proximity detection system for forklifts and other mobile machinery. Simple to install. Reliable in even the harshest of conditions. No IT integration necessary. Priced to enable fleet-wide adoption. Proven. Industries we work with: Materials Handling, Warehousing, Logistics, Distribution, Freight, Manufacturing, Poultry transport, Utilities, Supermarkets, Concrete, Paper & Forest Products, Oil & Energy, Transportation, Mining & Metals, Business Supplies Different types of machinery: SEEN’s system is suitable for use on all types of mobile machinery, including forklifts, telehandlers, mobile cranes, container handlers, wheeled loaders, rollers, graders, bobcats, and bulldozers.
Experience · 6 entries
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2026
Interim Managing Director
May 2026
For nearly 40 years, Groenz has been creating sauces, dressings and condiments for the Foodservice industry in New Zealand, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. Driven by a belief of creating truly authentic flavours, Groenz offers three brands : French Maid, Kiwi Style, In House Systems and private label products. With a multi-packaging capability for packing sauces, condiments and powders, Groenz can offer products in a number of pack forms and sizes to suit a comprehensive range of dry and wet food presentations. Groenz has maintained a reputation in the business for inventing and creating great tasting products for a wide portfolio of food service customers including Branded, Private label and quick service restaurant (QSR). With multi-packaging capability for packing sauces, condiments, liquids and powders, Groenz offers products in a number of pack formats and sizes to provide a comprehensive range. Its R&D department continues to explore new product solutions for the foodservice and other market sectors. Groenz is headquartered in Wellington, New Zealand. Groenz has a dedicated sale force throughout New Zealand and Australia. This sales force is supported by experts in Manufacturing, Technology, Supply Chain and other corporate roles such as Finance, Marketing, Customer Service and Human Resources based throughout Australasia. A family-owned business since the late 1970s, Groenz is now a part of the Golden State Foods family of companies. Passionate, dedicated and hard-working, Groenz team members all play an important role in ensuring the best quality for our products and the best service to our customers. Providing customer satisfaction is our everyday priority.
2022
Advisory Board Member | Investor
Aug 2022
Wellington based Organic & Fair Trade Specialty Coffee company.
2021
Co-Founder | Director
Jun 2021
BCorp, Certified plastic-negative & carbon negative. Eliminating single-use plastic from NZ homes. Dissolvable, non-toxic cleaners delivered to your door.
2018
Advisory Board Member | Investor
Mar 2018
2013
Fractional CMO | Consultant | Investor
Jul 2013
We’re ikeGPS, the PoleOS™ Company. We help electric utilities, communications companies, and their engineering providers gain actionable insights on overhead infrastructure. Our data acquisition and analysis solutions transform how to design, construct, and inspect overhead assets and help achieve critical industry objectives, such as grid resiliency and fiber broadband expansions. With two decades of industry expertise, IKE has become the standard for eight of the 10 largest investor-owned electric utilities in North America and five of the 10 largest communications companies in the United States. Traditional methods of collecting and analyzing pole data are time and labor intensive and error prone. Unruly workflows, frequent reworks, and lengthy engineering and permitting processes wreak havoc on productivity. IKE is your partner in solving these pain points. We created a suite of solutions that enables dramatic productivity gains, reduces risk, and optimizes investments, while upholding safety standards. Designed and delivered with industry expertise, IKE solutions have wide-ranging use cases including pole inspections, field data collection, pole loading analysis, make-ready engineering, network-level assessments, and permitting. The result: Overhead asset management that is efficient, reliable and, above all, safe. Driven by our commitment to essential infrastructure and to the success and well-being of those who manage it, IKE innovates for the next generation of power and communications networks.
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