Our team has worked in global sponsorship, brand and advertising agencies in Melbourne, London and Munich. We have also worked “in-house” extensively and run sponsor programmes for sports rightsholders.

Brands we have worked with include:

Allianz; Shell; NTT DoCoMo/i-mode; Visa; Cadbury; Ford; Toyota; Harvey Norman; SkyCity; Adecco; ACC; Spark Sport; Tower; Telstra; Land Rover; Wrigley's; and Brand Licensing Europe Expo.

Whilst in agency, and well beyond, we gathered wide experience in working with sports rightsholders.

Brands we have worked with include:

The International Olympic and Paralympic Committees; Commonwealth Games Federation; World Rugby; the Mercedes, Ferrari, Renault and Jaguar Formula 1 Teams; the Ducati MotoGP and Superbike Teams; World Rally Championship; FC Bayern and FC Barcelona; UEFA Champions League; Surrey Cricket; Saracens; St Andrews Links; the Allianz Arena.

Across the years we have also worked on behalf of a number of media and charitable organisations in Melbourne, London and Aotearoa New Zealand.

Media brands we have worked with include: Sky Sports UK; Racing UK; Magic & KISS Radio; Top Up TV; Bauer.

Charity brands we have worked with include: Women in Sport Aotearoa (WISPA); Paralympics New Zealand (PNZ); the Australian Red Cross Victoria; and the Leukaemia Foundation of Victoria, Australia.

Our CEO was also CEO of Women in Sport Aotearoa (WISPA), Ngā Wāhine Hākinakina o Aotearoa and Secretary General of the International Working Group (IWG) on Women & Sport for over 4 years, from September 2018 to December 2022.

This included the staging of the world’s largest conference on gender equity in sport, the IWG World Conference on Women & Sport, attracting 1,850+ leaders from 300+ organisations in 90 countries.

Our CEO and Client Services Director both held senior commercial, marketing and strategic leadership roles at Paralympics New Zealand (PNZ) and the New Zealand Paralympic Team during the past decade.

This included global activation of Rio 2016, the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Paralympic Games, Tokyo 2020, the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games, Paris 2024 and extensive work advocating for increased inclusion of disabled people in sport.

Our CEO began her Te Ao Māori journey in late 2018, undertaking training through Te Kaa (with Precious Clark / Maurea Consulting), and going on to hold a relationship with Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei.

She helped to set-up the WISPA rōpū - He Wahine Toa Kei Te Kokiri (Strong Women Making a Move) and oversaw the integration of tikanga (protocol) into all mahi (work), especially the IWG World Conference.

The Away We Go ~ Matike Mai team is fully committed to honouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi.