Rod Drury
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Rod Drury is a technology entrepreneur from Wellington, New Zealand
[edit] Professional history
In 1995 Drury established Glazier Systems, one of New Zealand's leading software development and consulting companies. Glazier Systems was acquired by Advantage Group in 1999 and continues today as Intergen.
Drury subsequently founded and served as CEO of AfterMail which was acquired by Quest Software for US$65 million in January 2006 and subsequently won Best Exchange Product at Microsoft TechEd 2006 in Boston.
In 2000, Drury co-founded Context Connect, a US-based company developing technology to increase connectivity across different mobile networks. He continues as CTO for the Boston-based company which now has a US patent for its mobile directory application.
Through his career Drury has maintained a close relationship with Microsoft and was selected as New Zealand's first representative on the Microsoft MSDN Regional Director program, holding the role from 1997 to 2000. He achieved Microsoft MVP status for his work in the early days of Active Server Pages.
In 2005 Drury joined the board of TradeMe, New Zealand's most successful eCommerce internet site, as an independent director. Rod continues to sit on the Trade Me Advisory Board following the sale of Trade Me to John Fairfax Holdings in 2006.
In August 2006 he joined NZ Trade & Enterprise Beachheads Program Advisory Board. He is a member of the New Zealand Institute of Directors.
[edit] External links
- Serial entrepreneurs, Unlimited Magazine, Issue 82, May 2006
- Intergen
- Quest Software
- PlanHQ
- Rod Drury's Blog
