{"id":467204,"date":"2026-06-08T19:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T19:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/467204\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T19:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T19:00:09","slug":"tech-entrepreneur-and-rich-lister-sharon-hunter-allegedly-assaulted-by-friends-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/467204\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech entrepreneur and rich-lister Sharon Hunter allegedly assaulted by friend\u2019s son"},"content":{"rendered":"

His mother, Victoria Jones, declined to elaborate on the circumstances.<\/p>\n

\"SharonSharon Hunter co-founded computer company PC Direct.<\/p>\n

Hunter co-founded computer company PC Direct<\/a> at the age of 22, helping build it into a nationally recognised technology brand before selling it in 1997 and setting up Hunter Powell Investment Partners with her husband, Tenby Powell. <\/p>\n

The mother-of-two is one of New Zealand\u2019s leading businesswomen, with entrepreneurial and business experience spanning high-growth companies, mergers and acquisitions, private equity partnerships, banking and finance, marketing, communications, brand development, and strategic social responsibility initiatives. <\/p>\n

She served on the advisory board for Rugby World Cup 2011, as well as the Starship Foundation and Antarctica New Zealand, and has been active in charitable organisations, including children\u2019s health and cancer awareness. <\/p>\n

\"TenbyTenby Powell and Sharon Hunter in 2019 when he was the mayor of Tauranga. <\/p>\n

Hunter and her husband have been described as a rich-list power couple<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Powell, is a former mayor of Tauranga and last year was appointed an officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit<\/a> for services to business, governance, and humanitarian aid. <\/p>\n

Powell and Hunter have two children, George and Charlotte. <\/p>\n

Daniel Bierre\u2019s next court appearance is scheduled at the North Shore District Court for June 15.<\/p>\n

\" Sharon Hunter, her husband Tenby Powell and their children, George and Charlotte<\/p>\n

Carolyne Meng-Yee<\/a> is an award-winning Auckland-based investigative journalist. She worked for the Herald on Sunday from 2007 to 2011 and rejoined the Herald in 2016 after working as a current affairs producer at TVNZ\u2019s 60 Minutes, 20\/20 and Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"His mother, Victoria Jones, declined to elaborate on the circumstances. Sharon Hunter co-founded computer company PC Direct. Hunter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7818,95,32034,1558,3595,1656,3936,2036,1445,20214,5933,111,139,69,6791,2938,1440,22639,213,370],"class_list":["post-467204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-allegedly","tag-and","tag-assaulted","tag-been","tag-by","tag-company","tag-director","tag-entrepreneur","tag-friends","tag-hunter","tag-investor","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-prominent","tag-richlister","tag-sharon","tag-son","tag-sports","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}