About
The Outdoors Group was set up to create content for every Kiwi wanting to enjoy our beautiful country.
The content covers fishing, boating, camping, tramping, skiing, hunting, diving and much more with
stories, tips, tricks techniques, where to and how to.
The stories will be provided in formats to make the content accessible to all kiwis
Radio, Online, YouTube, Facebook, Print, On-demand
John Eichelsheim - is a 56-year-old writer, author, magazine editor and broadcaster with more than 25 years experience writing about fishing and boating. John has co-hosted a radio fishing show and made guest appearances on numerous fishing television shows and videos spanning more than 20 years. He has served on the judging panel at the Hutchwilco New Zealand Boat Show every year since 2005. John lives on Auckland’s North Shore with his wife and daughter and has published seven travel/sport-fishing books, including two bestsellers on fishing with soft plastics. His most recent book, Top Catch, was released in 2010.
Peter Elliott - is an actor, television presenter, theatre director, writer and sometime photographer, well known for his long running television appearances in Gloss, Erebus, and Shortland Street. He has presented, among other shows, Captains Log, Explorers, Primeval New Zealand, Revealing Gallipoli and recently the Art of the Architect series for TV One. Peter has appeared in over seventy-five NZ theatrical productions, more than 60 television shows, and was the anchor host for 5 years of Match Fishing League on Sky Sport and Prime. He is currently writing boat reviews for TradeABoat Magazine and is a regular panelist on National Radio. He has been nominated for a number of national acting and presenting awards and won Best Presenter Award in 2005 and best Supporting Actor at the Qantas awards in 2011. Peter has been married to Susan Trainor for 25 years and they have three children, Grace, Lucy and Joss. Born in Christchurch, Peter has called Auckland home for thirty years but still backs the Red and Black. If pushed. His hobbies are fishing, both salt and freshwater fly, and riding Mototrials a motorcycle sport without a seat. He's a member of MNZ, AFAC, and NZ Actors Equity. He drives a black 300GTS Vespa when it isn't raining, and an old Ssang Yong Korando when it's nasty, or towing a bike or a boat. He sits on the boards of Baseball New Zealand and The Outdoors Group
Terry Williams King – has been involved in the fishing, hunting industry for over 20 years. From designing fishing equipment, seminars and retailing fishing and hunting gear, he a has also broken new fishing grounds around the pacific and NZ. Terrys passion for hunting and fishing knowledge has seen him fish and hunt with some of the most well respected fishing and hunting guides around the globe, and now has a passion to share this knowledge with all. Holder of numerous NZ and world records and just loves the outdoors. Terry has worked across both the print, digital, radio and TV seen for 15 years doing various shows, managing a number of strong media brands, launching new products, and creating specialised content to a number of industries across NZ. Is currently working with the MPI in an advisory role on creating A sustainable fishery for the future for all of NZ.
Scott Walker - Scott has 25 years radio broadcasting experience in all facets of the industry. He has also several years experience in account management for large multinational online marketing companies. Currently Scott is the Operations Manager for RadioLIVE and sits on the boards of the Outdoors Group and Mairangi Bay Primary School. Hobbies and interests include all sports (especially water sports), fishing, DIY and Music. Scott lives on the North Shore with his wife and two daughters.
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t Blair - owns and manages www.Fishing.net.nz, Australasia's largest recreational fishing website. Fishing.net.nz was established 15 years ago and is now a leading digital player in the global fishing segment. With over 20 million page views annually, the site has carved a niche as a primary source of fishing knowledge and provides a complete range of information and services to all aspects of recreational fishing. Grant has a background in business management, sales and marketing from the healthcare industry and has several successful startups in the digital space. His key skillsets include the melding of business discipline and governance with entrepreneurial values - an essential combination for scaling start-ups to become serious players in the digital space.
Mal Williams - is a freelance television cameraman & director - a videographer with high production values who not only delivers the pictures but has a keen eye for storytelling. Originally trained in News at TVNZ Mal moved to industry heavyweights Communicator and has since worked for many major overseas networks & have travelled extensively throughout the world shooting pictures. Although he enjoys working with a crew he has specialised in and pioneered in NZ the high pressure environment of OPC film making, where the cameraman is responsible for directing, shooting pictures and recording sound. These skills have enabled him to record missile launches from helicopters through police high speed pursuits to grizzly bears in the wild. Over the past few years Mal has focused on shooting at sea, from filming live racing aboard AC45 catamarans to several NZ fishing shows. Mal recently returned from a 3 week voyage on a deep sea trawler fishing off the Auckland Islands successfully filming live underwater footage of the trawl net working at over 1000m for the first time. Although totally at home with all formats, Mal specialised in shooting HD for the last 10 years and is very experienced at providing technical expertise. Mal live in Auckland with my wife and two teenage kids and consider myself very lucky to be able to make a living making beautiful pictures.