About Us

Welcome to Te Mātaioho Limited (TML), where tradition, innovation, and guardianship converge to empower Indigenous communities across Aotearoa, New Zealand, and beyond. Guided by the Māori proverb “Mā te huruhuru ka rere te manu”, we provide tools, structures, and resources for growth, while protecting whenua, taiao, and future generations.

We design and steward Indigenous-led economic frameworks that inspire reflection and drive long-term outcomes. Our work is grounded in tikanga and informed by global experience, enabling communities to navigate complexity while remaining anchored to care, balance, and responsibility.

Through collaboration, we support initiatives that align economic participation with environmental responsibility, cultural values, and intergenerational wellbeing. Our team brings experience across secure logistics, high-value asset stewardship, and complex operational environments—ensuring systems are resilient, transparent, and future-focused.

We advance Indigenous prosperity by revitalising ancestral financial wisdom, integrating it into modern systems that strengthen financial sovereignty, ecological balance, and collective resilience. Every initiative reflects our belief that economic, cultural, and environmental outcomes are interwoven.

Vision

To support Indigenous communities in achieving self-determined futures through trusted systems, shared capability, and enduring opportunity, honouring ancestral values while embracing thoughtful, modern innovation.

Mission

We are committed to embedding Indigenous principles into economic system design, innovation, and alignment. Through strategic collaboration and disciplined stewardship, we support initiatives that strengthen financial sovereignty, climate resilience, conservation outcomes, and the wellbeing of present and future generations.

Our Executive Team

Ron Hokianga | Founding Director

Ron is a retired military veteran with 26 years of service in the New Zealand Defence Forces (NZDF). Having grown up on military bases across New Zealand, Singapore, and Malaysia, he has extensive operational and leadership experience and he brings a lifelong foundation of discipline, strategy, and leadership.

As a Founding Director of TML, Ron applies his expertise in risk and audit analysis to strengthen financial integrity and governance. He oversees financial assessments, internal controls, and audit processes to identify and mitigate risks, ensuring regulatory compliance, transparency, and the development of strong risk management frameworks that safeguard the organisation’s mission and values.

Bronwyn Wilson-Hokianga | Managing Director

Bronwyn made history as the first Māori Olympian, and she brings the same determination and vision to her work supporting Indigenous communities. Over three decades, she has traveled the world building trusting, lifelong relationships, allowing her to raise capital for whānau and hapū across Aotearoa for projects that are Indigenous-led and ESG-aligned. Speaking directly to Foreign Direct Investors (FDI) comes naturally to her, and her expertise spans seven countries, bringing a global perspective to every initiative.

A strategic leader in governance, project management, and investment advisory, Bronwyn focuses on intergenerational wealth creation for Indigenous communities. She develops innovative, solution-oriented strategies that integrate financial management, economic development, and education, delivering outcomes that are culturally aligned, globally relevant, and sustainable.