Vai Punivai

Vai brings 20 years of management and leadership experience within the vocational education sector to his role. He joined BCITO in 2013, following a stint with Competenz operations, primarily in the Engineering and Manufacturing sectors.

Vai’s lived experience is that of an ‘underserved learner’ (as described by Te Pūkenga), and yet after gaining a master’s degree in 2009, Vai was able to pursue his passion for making a difference to people’s lives through education. While working at BCITO, Vai found a values match with his own. Just as education had made a difference for Vai, every day he gets to see the impact training and education has on the lives of young people in the trades.