Leo Bourke
Leo is keen to support the success of Seed Capital for The Commons as it is a viable, fair, and affordable way to enable New Zealand and New Zealanders to thrive.  It provides a compelling way that as a nation we could provide substantial funding to 40,000 people a year so they can afford to buy homes with all the benefits that brings. 
Leo is the founder and Director of ElliottBourke & Co, where he leverages his experience expertise as a Chartered Accountant to provide valuable guidance to organisations across various sectors. Leo has over 20 years of senior leadership experience including as a CEO and CFO. He has for the last 10 years served as a trusted advisor to founders and executives, providing strategic insights that drive success.

Tim O’Brien
I am a 66-year-old retiree, father of four, and Grandfather to several.
I have worked almost forty years in the same industry, filling various roles throughout that time, observed much, and learned a great deal. As an individual I think it a personal responsibility to invest some of one’s time in supporting the community and lived this by being a School board Trustee for some dozen years, much of that time in the role of chairperson and sometimes on a day, just mucking in helping others with whatever was needed at the time.
I have had the great privilege of watching and walking alongside this project for several years from concept inception, its fleshing out and the rigor applied to ensure its worth and value.
Seed capital for the commons as a first investment to kick off a project, life or business offers an opportunity for individuals, families, and the nation to grow and realise people’s life’s potentials and that excites me.
Over the last few decades and the advent of COVID–19 and its implications and subsequent social anxieties have seen an erosion in wellbeing and support that has not seen people, families thrive in quite the same way as when I was a young man. We have seen volunteer support fall off for organisations that benefit families. I suspect this is due in some part to both parents needing to work to make ends meet and achieve the same goals and outcomes as their parents and grandparents. There is a lot of pressure to gain home ownership, pull together a deposit, and then ensure one’s ability to meet repayments.
I have seen firsthand through the struggles of my own children and their friends their endeavours to pull together the requirements to gain home ownership or begin a business.
Work and homeownership are two of the best investments a nation can make in the wellbeing of families providing stability and a constant in people’s lives.
Seed capital for the commons is a practical, viable opportunity, a launchpad from which people can realise their dreams, goals and objectives, and fulfil their potential.

Zach Mayo
At its heart, Seed Capital for The Commons stands to improve the life and well-being of all New Zealanders by investing in real, everyday people. This “Seed Capital” can be the springboard in the lives of Kiwi’s that will allow them to create a life for themselves, and more importantly, those around them, of countless possibilities.
Being in my late 20’s with a wife and two children, I am asking myself now, what kind of country do I want my family to grow up in. Is it one where it’s every man/woman for themselves? Is it one where many are left struggling for a low quality of life? Or do I want to live in a country where people are thriving together? Where families have a high quality of life and people can be and do whatever they set their mind to?
Seed Capital for The Commons shares with me this desire, which is why I have chosen to get involved and invest my time and energy into this cause. I believe the initiatives of this society can greatly improve the lives of all New Zealander’s and can offer a future to many that may never have been possible before.