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Rod Drury

Founder and Director at Xero

BIO

Rod Drury founded global small business accounting platform Xero leading it to a top performing $AU10B+ ASX100 company employing over 3000 people in 25+ locations. Rod remains as largest shareholder and non executive Director. After creating a number of successful technology businesses Rod was named by Investopedia as one of the Worlds Top 10 Serial Entrepreneurs, awarded AMS 2017 Global Marketer of the Year, 2017 Deloitte Top 200 Visionary Leader, 2013 EY New Zealand Entrepreneur of the Year, NZ Herald Business Leader of the year in 2012, NZ Hi-Tech Hall of Fame, NZ Hi-Tech Entrepreneur of the Year in 2006 and 2007, World Class New Zealander for ICT in 2008 and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of IT Professionals NZ. Recently retired as a full time CEO Rod is engaging in a small number of large scale public good infrastructure projects.