Aliesha Staples is a businesswoman and digital technology entrepreneur from New Zealand. In 2022 she won the Imagezone Entrepreneurship Award at the
Women in Film and Television New Zealand Awards
The Women in Film and Television New Zealand Awards, also known as the WIFT NZ Awards, are a set of awards that celebrate and encourage the achievements of New Zealand women in film, television and digital media. The awards are administered by Wome ...
.
Biography
Staples grew up in
Taradale and attended
Napier Girls' High School
Napier Girls' High School is a state secondary school on Clyde Road, Napier, New Zealand. It is one of the oldest schools in New Zealand for girls, and has a current school roll of about 1000.
History
In July 1883 plans were submitted to the b ...
. In 2007 she completed a diploma in screen production at the
Eastern Institute of Technology
The Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT) is a government owned tertiary education institution with three campuses: Hawke’s Bay, Auckland, and Gisborne, New Zealand. It is also referred to as EIT Hawke's Bay, EIT Tairāwhiti, and EIT Auckland ...
(EIT) in Napier.
When she was 18 years old, Staples moved to Auckland and took a job working in the camera department of a media company. After a few years she moved overseas and worked on international cruise ships in South America, North America, Asia, Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, New Zealand and Australia creating promotional content with emerging film technology such as drones and
gimbals
A gimbal is a pivoted support that permits rotation of an object about an axis. A set of three gimbals, one mounted on the other with orthogonal pivot axes, may be used to allow an object mounted on the innermost gimbal to remain independent of ...
.
In 2014 she returned to New Zealand and co-founded a rental company for high-tech gear for the film and game industries. The company later developed into Staples VR, specialising in augmented, virtual and mixed reality technology. Staples also founded vRemedies, a company supplying emerging tech solutions in the digital health field.
Awards and recognition
* Hi-Tech Young Achiever of the Year at 2017 New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards
* Excellence in Digital Health Award at 2018 New Zealand Excellence in IT Awards
* Supreme Women Leader at 2018 New Zealand International Business Awards
* Hi-Tech Young Achiever of the Year at 2018 New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards
* Silver Award for Specialised Cinematography at 2019 New Zealand Cinematographers Society Awards
* Imagezone Entrepreneurship Award at 2022 Women in Film and Television New Zealand Awards
References
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century New Zealand businesswomen
People from Taradale, New Zealand
People educated at Napier Girls' High School
21st-century New Zealand businesspeople