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The New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards

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It’s a bit late but now that we have some photos from the evening it seemed like a good time to make a post about the New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards. Two weeks ago Jeremy and I went to Christchurch to attend the Hi-Tech awards – we hadn’t entered Mindscape in the awards this year but I was put forward for the Young Achiever award.

I was fortunate enough to be a winner of the Young Achiever category along with Andrew Graham. Endace sponsored this award and so the award was given by Neil Hopkins of Endace (on the left):

Praise needs to go to the organisers and sponsors of the awards – celebration of business success and highlighting the importance of creating innovative technology companies in New Zealand is important. A memorable quote of the evening was that we need to be creating global businesses – something that I believe Mindscape truly is – over 95% of our customers are not in New Zealand. Thanks of course also goes to the rest of the Mindscape team and all those involved in the other ventures that we are part of.

Overall it was a great evening – we met some very interesting people, connected up with some we hadn’t seen in a while and stayed up way too late (in typical geek fashion, back at the hotel room afterwards Jeremy and I played some Unreal Tournament 2004 to which it became apparent I am not very good at playing when tired and full of wine!). Good Times!

Read more about the New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards here.

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Posted by John-Daniel Trask on 14 May 2009

3 Responses to “The New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards”

1. Just beware the curse…

   Mark Clare May 14th, 2009

2. And it was well deserved. Well done!

   Darryl May 14th, 2009

3. Absolutely well deserved. JD is a passionate business minded entrepreneur. That not only has great ideas but the nouse to make it happen successfully.

   Well done JD! Heres to a fantastic future of successful ventures.

   Sam Allen May 17th, 2009

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