Timothy Allan is a bit of a guru on multiple levels … product design, branding, sustainability, leadership. He’s recently handed over the CEO reigns of UBCO electric bikes and is enjoying a bit more time to explore the outdoors with his family. Meanwhile, he’s a Strategic Mentor for Cucumber, a Tauranga-based tech company; a Startup Mentor for business development service Soda; a Fellow of the Sir Edmund Hillary Fellowship; and remains director of Locus Research, a product development and innovation company that supported the development and launch of UBCO, Inverse hair conditioning system, Delloch Hip Protection, and multiple other products … all from the sunny Bay of Plenty. He’s presented around the world, consulted on product commercialisation and applied business development a wide range of businesses … and consulted to the NZ Government on innovation, life cycle thinking, sustainability, and design. Tim has been an icon nationally and within the Bay of Plenty – establishing the Young Innovator Awards, Fieldays Innovation competition, and co-founding the WNT Technology incubator.