Brooke Howard-Smith is an X Games medallist, social entrepreneur, TUI and AFTA award winner and NZ television personality who’s founded multiple world-class companies and produced some of New Zealand's largest national televised fundraiser events.
Brooke has co-founded several groundbreaking companies focused on the emerging creator economy, Web3 and the metaverse including New Zealand’s largest independent creator management co WeAreTENZING, Otterfish a software solution that helps brands and agencies manage creator campaigns and Non Fungible Labs, and The FLUF World ecosystem, with sales in excess of $250m USD in the last 9 months FLUF World is recognised as one of the World’s best and largest metaverse tech ecosystems. Only Sandbox has sold more NFTs than the FLUF Ecosystem.
At 19 Brooke co-created Senate, a $14+ million a year turnover Skate accessories company while touring with the world's best athletes including the likes of Tony Hawk, Arlo Eisenberg & Matt Hoffman and learning about branding from collaborators such as Shep Fairey & Dave Kinsey.
Philanthropy
Brooke has been the Organiser and Executive Producer of many of New Zealand's largest national televised fundraisers including Rise Up Christchurch, Red Nose Day, Comedy for Cure Kids, The All Blacks 2015 Rugby World Cup campaign "Team Ball Player Thing" featuring Taika Waititi, Joel Little, Peter Jackson, Lorde and 30 of New Zealand's leading artists. Brooke also Spearheaded Non Fungible Labs 24 auction raising $1.1 Million dollars for The Auckland City Mission. All together these events and others have raised over 10 million dollars in the last decade.
Television
Brooke started his presenting career in the USA working on MTV and with sports channel, ESPN. At the time, Brooke was competing in extreme sports, excelling in inline skating - receiving a bronze medal at the 1995 X Games.
He became a well-known New Zealand television personality after presenting TV3’s consumer affair show, Target, Celebrity Joker Poker, TV2’s XSTV (an extreme sports show) and the 2007 Rugby World Cup in France. He also presented NZ’s Performance Car TV series 5 as well as the television coverage of the 2008 Coca-Cola Christmas in the Park, TV3's Big Night In telethon, Maori Television's Rise Up Christchurch telethon and in 2014, he hosted the Cadbury Dream Factory.
Brooke has a vast amount of experience in the events world and is the perfect MC to keep your audience engaged and entertained! He prides himself on his ability to connect like-minded people and companies and has a deep passion for building world-class companies, events & projects that shift industries and bring communities together.
As a speaker, Brooke is in demand to communicate his insights from practical experience on NFTs, the open metaverse and Web3.0.
Brooke was the best MC we have had for this event in recent years. We have only received positive feedback about him and our Board in particularly thought he was fantastic. He really nailed ... keep reading The Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ)
