*Partner at Previously Unavailable, a ventures company and innovation studio, specialising in the rapid creation of innovative products with untraditional business models. We work as co-founders of new start-ups and corporate ventures. Brand projects include Ideally, compostic, Taxi, Appetise, Bustle, Starshipit, aglow, chnnl, GD1, Timely and Brancott Estate. *Co-founder and IC member/manager for Brand Fund 1, the Previously Unavailable and Icehouse Ventures VC fund that backs companies where brand will be a defining part of their success, and where the idea of brand we look for is a change in behaviour, the market and the world.*Global brand, communications, and creative lead for Vend over 4.5 years of hyper-growth, partnerships with the world's other leading retail brands, and sustained business results. A look back can be found here: https://medium.com/@simonpound/leaving-vend-9f678bdd2c4e*Managing Director of Ingrid Starnes, a made in New Zealand, made to order fashion manufacture and retail online-first business, that has ended up in a good place after a very rocky Covid ride*Host/content producer of the Business is Boring podcast for The Spinoff - a look at NZ business and entrepreneurship, winner best business podcast at the 2021 NZ Podcast Awards*Awarded marketer, retailer, advertising creative and video director, specialising in communications and brand. Have loved making diverse work from art projects, to a short documentary for the Auckland Museum, right through to writing ads named New Zealand’s most loved for Telecom (Spark) as a Senior Writer in at Saatchi and Saatchi.*Experience on both sides of the media, as a reporter and producer of current affairs and entertainment television for TVNZ and Mediaworks on shows such as Agenda, Media 7, Smokefree Rockquest & The Ad Show, and as a PR practitioner and consultant.*Regular contributor to Radio New Zealand and NewsHub, significantly on The Panel and over the years through to its end, The AM Show.*Father of three with Ingrid Starnes.