Business choice a beauty
By JONATHAN MARSHALL - Sunday News
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LISA LEWIS was recognised for two things this week â her looks, and her business sense.
The 28-year-old has bared all for Australian Penthouse and was also nominated for a top New Zealand Businesswoman award.
The Hamilton-based mother-of-one has eight racy photographs posted on australianpenthhouse.com.au alongside a self-authored biography explaining she is "mischievously notorious, renowned in New Zealand".
Blogger Cactus Kate nominated the part-time prostitute – who streaked to fame at a Waikato Stadium All Blacks test in 2006 – for the 2010 Veuve Clicquot award.
The award recognises "someone who loves others to succeed and therefore succeeds themselves".
Richard Yeomans, general manager of Veuve Clicquot, said judges were looking for "an extraordinary New Zealand businesswoman who shows vision and a pioneering spirit in leading their own business, or the business they manage".
"We look forward to reviewing all nominations, including that of Lisa Lewis'," Yeomans said.
Lewis told Sunday News her nomination was "validation" for her career choice.
"I was surprised that I had been nominated, but then upon saying that, with the way I conduct business I am also left feeling finally appreciated. I am incredibly humbled, privileged and excited to have been nominated.
"I feel that it is a validation to me and the profession that I am in," Lewis said.
"I am an honest person - in fact one of the very few that uses my own name which confirms how honest I really am in my business."
Earlier this year Lewis' Myspace page was voted the third most viewed Kiwi profile, with 140,000 hits.
Applications for the award, won last year by reality TV queen Julie Christie, close on December 11 and will be announced in March.
More information go to: www.veuveclicquot award.co.nz
