Aliesha Staples


Aliesha Staples is a businesswoman and digital technology entrepreneur from New Zealand. In 2022 she won the Imagezone Entrepreneurship Award at the Women in Film and Television New Zealand Awards.

Biography

Staples grew up in Taradale and attended Napier Girls' High School. In 2007 she completed a diploma in screen production at the Eastern Institute of Technology in Napier.
When she was 18 years old, Staples moved to Auckland and took a job working in the camera department of a media company. After a few years she moved overseas and worked on international cruise ships in South America, North America, Asia, Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, New Zealand and Australia creating promotional content with emerging film technology such as drones and gimbals.
In 2014 she returned to New Zealand and co-founded a rental company for high-tech gear for the film and game industries. The company later developed into Staples VR, specialising in augmented, virtual and mixed reality technology. Staples also founded vRemedies, a company supplying emerging tech solutions in the digital health field.

Awards and recognition