Our Team

Alison Meredith, General Manager

Ali Meredith is General Manager of Startup Queenstown Lakes and Director of Product Partnerships at LawVu.

With a decade of experience at the intersection of technology and community, she brings her expertise to building ecosystems that help founders scale, connecting entrepreneurs, investors, and experts across the region. Her work combines collaboration, commercial strategy, and community building to turn great ideas into scalable impact.

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Rene Koehler, Growth Coach

Rene Koehler is Growth Coach at Startup Queenstown Lakes and founder of Innovation Distillery.
With more than 15 years of experience across engineering, innovation, product management, and business advisory, he helps founders and growing businesses bring clarity to complex challenges, sharpen customer focus, and turn ideas into practical momentum. His work combines structured problem-solving, commercial thinking, and facilitation to help ambitious teams move faster and build with purpose.

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