NZ Hi-Tech Awards finalists announced

By CIO Staff | Thursday, October 18 2007

Rod Drury of Xero, Darrin Grafton of Serko and Stuart Wilson of Modica Group vie for NZX Entrepreneur Award.

The names of the 32 finalists in the PricewaterhouseCoopers New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards 2007 have been released, with the winner to be revealed at a Gala award on November 3 in Wellington.

The awards recognise the leading entrepreneurs and innovators from the information and communications technology sector. Previous winners include Navman, Rakon, Endace Measurement Systems and Pulse Data.

CIO New Zealand editor Divina Paredes is a finalist in the Fronde Journalist Award. She was the winner in the 2006 award as editor of MIS Magazine, which has since merged with CIO.

Wayne Norrie, chief executive of Revera and chairman of the organising committee, said the judges had to select from some stunning entries showing an indepth coverage of business, with the Enatel Innovation Award being the category most keenly contested.

More details can be found in http://www.hitech.org.nz/home.

The finalists are:
Endace Young Achiever Award
Chris Auld, Intergen
Peter Hau, Vouchermate
Craig Walker, Xero

PR Marketing Campaign Award
Concentrate
Xero

Professional Advisor Award
Concentrate
Connect NZ
Andrew Simmonds, Simmonds Stewart

Fronde Journalist Award
Anthony Doesburg, technology writer (freelance)
Divina Paredes, CIO magazine
Tom Pullar-Strecker, InfoTech, The Dominion Post

NZX Entrepreneur Award
Rod Drury, Xero
Darrin Grafton, Serko
Stuart Wilson, Modica Group

IRL Emerging Company Award
Energy Mad
SMX
Wellington Drive Technologies

Company Leader Award
Bill Gallagher, Gallagher Group
Darrin Grafton, Serko
Richard Mander, HumanWare

K One W One High Growth Award
Energy Mad
Modica Group

Enatel Innovation Award
Centre for Rapid Product Development, AUT University
Fronde Anywhere
Indigo
OpenCloud
Times-7 Holdings

Avnet Corporate Award
HumanWare
Orion Health

Rakon Deal Award
Endace
OpenCloud
Xero