I retired from personal blogging in July 2008.
But you can find me over at http://blog.xero.com.
I was delighted to win an Award at the 2008 World Class New Zealand event last night. The past few days I’ve been privileged to spend with many of my heroes and had many stimulating workshops on how we can make New Zealand better and help businesses get offshore.
The winners from last night were
- Biotechnology – Prof. Garth Cooper
- Information and Communications Technology - Rod Drury
- Research, Science, Technology & Academia – Prof. Margaret Brimble
- Finance, Investment & Business Services - Craig Norgate
- Manufacturing - Maurice Prendergast
- Creative Industries - Phil Keoghan
- New Thinking - Bruce Farr
Peri Drysdale from Untouched World won the supreme award.
The awards were arranged by NZTE and Kea who provide a fantastic network to help New Zealand companies on a world stage. Thanks to Provenco for sponsoring the ICT category.
The World Class New Zealand Award trophy was designed by Weta so trumps the rest of the collection.

Congrats, Rod!
Well done Rod. You were certainly in good company looking at the winners of the other awards.
Cheers,
Paul.
Well done Rod. Great to see the Kiwi networks being used and recognised.
Congrats Rod, you help us all by maintaining such a high standard.
Gail