“Really, this is an honour for all of us. I’ve always been a storyteller, but the people I work with, they wrote the story,” he said. Taylor, who belongs to the Ngāti Kahungunu and Nga Puhi iwi, became lead singer of the band Kal-Q-Lated Risk in 1967, before becoming a TV presenter, best known for TVNZ children’s programmes Play School and Spot On. John Hawkins/Stuff Taylor, one of NZ foremost technology innovators, speaking at the Administrative Professionals Day 2018 held at Ascot. But it is his work as one of New Zealand's foremost technology innovators which earned him his knighthood.