Emily Loughnan

CEO, CLICK SUITE LTD

Emily Loughnan comes from a television production background spanning fifteen years. Five years at NZ On Air commissioning television programmes, including "Shortland Street", for a variety of New Zealand audiences.

Emily & partner Rex McIntosh started Click Suite in 1993 and it has continued to go from strength to strength, making a wide variety of interactive media. Click Suite has dominated local awards since its inception, have attracted various business accolades, and have won twice in the New York Festivals for their work at Te Papa and for the on-line learn to sail game "Tactics". Most recently they won the Multimedia equivalent of an OSCAR - an EMMA - a prestigious European award for their work for a London client.

Click Suite is working increasingly in an international market and typically attracts large-scale interactive projects that require real innovation and creativity.

Emily is also involved in the development of the broader industry, promoting the use of new technology, through various organisations. Emily is active in Tuanz, is on the Board of the Wellington Regional Development Association (REDA), and is the co-chair of the very successful cluster of export businesses in Wellington titled "Creative Capital".

Emily & Rex see Click Suite's future in the international market, in interactive television and internet technologies as delivery platforms for media that inspires, empowers, entertains and educates it audiences around the globe.