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Sales and Marketing are Conduits for Growth in the New NZ Space Industry: An Interview with Erica Lloyd

January 25, 2024 • Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom • Episode 60

An Interview with Erica Lloyd, Chief Revenue Officer at Zenno Astronautics, a New Zealand startup company revolutionizing space movement through the untapped energy of super magnets.

Eric Lloyd who has a broad and varied career here in New Zealand and across Asia Pacific and the USA in Broadcasting, Technology, Banking and innovation businesses.

Erica is a seasoned executive who started life running her own cutting edge tech services company in film and the television sector. She has worked on both sides of the camera as an on-air business journalist for Television New Zealand and Mediaworks as a network news producer. For half a decade, she was also part of the Executive management running local IT / Tech giant Datacom.

She’s been an Executive at Callaghan Innovation and local generative A.I leader Soul Machines, and joins me now to talk about her latest .. and I hear, favourite role to date as Chief Revenue Officer for fast scaling space tech start up, Zenno.

Hosted by: Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom, Co-Founder and CEO, SpaceBase
Music: reCreation by airtone (c) copyright 2019 Licensed under a Creative Commons (3.0)

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