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Sponsors

Many of New Zealand's leading companies have sponsored this year's awards, without them and all our supporters' generous support this event couldn't happen. We thank them for backing New Zealand's high tech community and we encourage you to find out more about them.

 
 
 
 
 
 
Principal Sponsor:
PwC Supreme Award

PricewaterhouseCoopers is New Zealand's leading professional services firm. We're a trusted advisor to many emerging businesses in and around the high tech industry in areas such as buy-side and sell-side corporate finance, taxation, accounting, transfer pricing, assurance, business growth advice and risk management.

Our international network makes it easier for us to open doors for developing businesses. With brainpower and expertise in 771 offices – Wellington to Washington, Hamilton to Hanoi – PwC can provide you with practical advice that you can trust. Use our advice to ensure you make the most of your opportunities.

Here in New Zealand we have 106 partners and 1200 staff across our seven offices: Auckland, Hamilton, Napier, New Plymouth, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin.

“We're proud to be the trusted advisers to some of New Zealand's most innovative and influential emerging businesses. Based on connections made as part of our involvement in the Hi-Tech Awards last year, we've enjoyed engaging with many of the 2006 nominees and award winners. We've not just been patting these up-and-coming companies on the back either – we're putting practical, robust advice on the table for them to consider. They're often asking: ‘Where to next?’ And we're backing ourselves to provide them with the answer to that question, no matter how many times it's asked.”

Scott Kerse,
Emerging Businesses leader,
PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Category Sponsor:
Flying Kiwi Award

Named IFLR New Zealand Law Firm of the Year for the past four years, Bell Gully is the full-service commercial law firm of choice for New Zealand and international clients. Setting the standard for legal advice at all stages of the business life-cycle, we advise entrepreneurs on protecting and commercialising their ideas, assist with capital raising for growth, and work extensively on private equity transactions, IPOs and mergers and acquisitions. From start-up to public listing, we believe that businesses need clear, concise and consistent commercial advice and we pride ourselves on our ability to deliver what they need.

“We've been privileged enough to work alongside some of the country's very best innovators and entrepreneurs on commercial law, business strategy and growth. Now, we are proud to help honour and recognise the efforts of New Zealand's hi-tech heroes through the Flying Kiwi Award. But it means more to us than that. Supporting the Hi-Tech Awards also marks our commitment to foster and encourage our future business leaders and technology innovators.”

Wayne Hudson, Partner,
Bell Gully

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Category Sponsor:
Avnet Corporate Award

Avnet is one of the largest distributors of electronic components, with a turnover of US$13b and operations in 70 countries. Avnet provides advanced supply chain and design services to many of the world’s leading technology corporations. The company's innovative and entrepreneurial spirit, coupled with the quality, depth, and breadth of its knowledge and relationships, assures customers and suppliers that they have chosen the right partner to help them succeed. Avnet's global scope and economies of scale, talented employees and commitment to value-based management ensure that it will continue to be a leader in the technology industry.

“Avnet is committed to supporting the continued development of the New Zealand hi-tech industry. Avnet has been involved with the Hi-Tech awards for the last 12 years and is proud to sponsor the Corporate Award as we believe it is important to recognise major contributions by leading corporations to the industry as a whole.”

Keith Dillon, General Manager Australia and New Zealand,
Avnet

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Category Sponsor:
Enatel Innovation Award

Enatel signals a return to the market of customer-oriented electronic products and solutions from a team that pioneered market-focused, world-leading design and manufacturing capabilities.

We create electronic solutions for systems integrators and large-scale power equipment manufacturers around the world. Built for responsiveness and performance, our products are designed to meet the needs of the market at a reasonable price.

Our knowledge and experience of the global marketplace, along with our talented team, enable us to create power supply solutions that meet each customer's unique specifications no matter what volume they require.

We not only create our own suite of products – we also offer a comprehensive contract manufacturing service. Our highly flexible environment allows us to specialise in small to medium volume as well as highly repetitive production.

Enatel's smart power design offers intelligent solutions at an empowering price. In a market where only the fast survive, we respond quickly and cost-effectively so our customers can do the same.

“Enatel are proud to sponsor the Innovation Award for 2007. We see the PricewaterhouseCoopers New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards as a highly regarded way to recognize excellence in an industry where imaginative ideas, creative cutting edge products and innovative solutions are an essential part of its growth and sustainability both locally and globally.”

Gary Foot, Managing Director
Enatel Ltd

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Category Sponsor:
Endace Young Achiever Award

Endace is a global leader in the provision of industrial-strength, high-speed network monitoring hardware, firmware and software products. Recognised by an elite list of multinational blue-chip customers, Endace products are used by some of the largest telecommunications carriers, enterprises, financial institutions, governments and network research institutions to monitor and manage their high-speed networks. Our solutions are used in a wide range of high-speed networking applications including quality-of-service monitoring, security and intrusion detection, lawful intercept, flow analysis, and detailed network monitoring and packet inspection.

Underlying Endace's products is a unique proprietary hardware technology - DAG -(Data Acquisition and Generation) - that enables the capture, monitoring, reporting, and inspection of 100% of network traffic regardless of network speeds and data volumes. Our hardware platforms support network traffic volumes far in excess of those that can be managed using competing products and are therefore ideally suited to use in extremely high-speed or heavy-volume networks, or for applications where guaranteed, secure capture of 100% of network traffic is a mandatory requirement.

“Endace is pleased to be able to sponsor the 'Young Achiever of the Year' for 2007. We hope to see finalists that are passionate about technology and have made an outstanding contribution to their company and its products, through knowledge and thought leadership. This is a rare opportunity for our best and brightest young achievers to demonstrate what it takes to be successful in hi-tech today and be rewarded for it.”

Mike Riley, CEO
Endace

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Category Sponsor:
IRL Emerging Company Award

Industrial Research Ltd is the leader in the development and application of advanced technology for the New Zealand industrial sector. From small companies with big ideas to multi-million dollar deals with international corporates, Industrial Research provides the scientific solutions to enable New Zealand industry to remain globally competitive using market-leading technology.

The people at Industrial Research are acknowledged as world-class in their fields, including carbohydrate chemistry, integrated bioactive technologies, hydrogen and distributed energy, nanotechnology and high temperature superconductors.

Our scientists, engineers and technology experts engage with industry in research and development, pilot scale production, and consultancy services to commercialise ideas and innovations.

As a Crown Research Institute, Industrial Research is owned by the people of this country and the work we do is designed to benefit industry and ultimately all New Zealanders.

 

“Industrial Research has a unique place in New Zealand’s hi-tech industry, providing scientific and technological know-how that is not available anywhere else. Our skills and expertise have given many companies that technical edge to succeed on the world stage.

Our aim is to come up with solutions that can move an idea or product on to viable commercial production – putting the theory of science into the practice of business.

We are pleased to be sponsoring the Emerging Company award celebrating the success of a small company who has turned a good idea into a profitable business. ”

Shaun Coffey, Chief Executive

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Category Sponsor:
NZX Entrepreneur Award

The Core NZX Markets Business –and eight market-related "value-add" businesses make up the NZX Group. NZX Markets enable companies to raise capital and investors to access quality, secure investment products. NZX is responsible for the ongoing surveillance and regulation of New Zealand's securities markets.

NZX is an information and service provider right across the market spectrum through six market-related "value-add" businesses. NZX is applying its expertise offshore, to AXE ECN in Australia, a joint venture with five major investment banks, a business that will inject competition into the trade reporting market in Australia. Another initiative with global potential, TZ1 Carbon Market, will capitalise on New Zealand’s time zone, Kyoto signatory and international brand advantages to become the carbon trading platform for the Asia Pacific Region.

“Kiwis can fly. They can float as well. The 2006 NZX Entrepreneur of the Year proved that when he brought his early phase Software as a Service company, Xero, to the NZSX Market in June. The growth aspirations of Xero are funded by a Kiwi public who are hungry for high quality technology companies to invest in.

We can have all the ideas in the world from New Zealand, but we need capital to take these ideas to the world. Capital, the fuel for growth, enables companies to access opportunities and markets, where and when they are available. In the dynamic high-tech sector these windows may not remain open for long.

This capital can, and does, come from home, the local market is an ideal platform for the local and global growth of hi-tech companies. We can build globally sized companies right here, from a home-base, serving the world. With the right technology used in the right way, size and geographical location is irrelevant.”

Mark Weldon, CEO
NZX

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Category Sponsor:
Rakon Deal of the Year Award

Rakon is a world leader in the development of frequency control solutions for a wide range of applications. Rakon has leading market positions in the supply of crystal oscillators to the GPS, telecommunications network timing/synchronization, and aerospace markets.

Founded in New Zealand in 1967 by Warren Robinson, Rakon became the leading supplier of GPS TCXOs to the world market in 1991. Rakon has focused on staying at the forefront of crystal and oscillator technology. This has been achieved through unique proprietary processes, continual innovation, expert consultation and constant technology advancement.

Rakon became a publicly listed company on the New Zealand Stock Exchange in May 2006. In March 2007 Rakon acquired the frequency control products division of C-MAC Micro Technology.

Today Rakon has a diverse product portfolio ranging from low stability XO, VCXO and crystal products, through to high volume precision TCXOs and all the way to precision OCXO and Rubidium equivalent frequency standards. A large multinational, Rakon has operations in New Zealand, the UK, France, China, Taiwan, Japan and the U.S.A.

“The milestones that marked Rakon's progress from a one man operation to a publicly listed company are clearly defined by the deals we made along the way. Our continued support of the Deal of the Year Award and the Awards in general acknowledges those history defining initiatives and the years of support from our peers but above all encourages the industry to celebrate our collective ability to continually show the courage to do the extraordinary.”

Justin Maloney, Marketing Manager
Rakon Limited

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Category Sponsor:
Tahia Investments Company Leader Award

Tahia Investments has a strong background in establishing and growing companies, in particular exporting companies in the ICT sector. Since 2003, Tahia has made significant investments in New Zealand-based high-tech companies including Rakon, Cadmus Technology, Orion Health and Fusion Electronics.

“High tech is all about crazy people with crazy ideas and many of them turn into great leaders. The Company Leader Award recognises what it takes to become one of those special people in this industry and the fact that they grow businesses, generate jobs and contribute to the future wealth for New Zealand.”

Peter Maire, Director
Tahia Investments

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Category Sponsor:
K One W One High Growth Award

“K One W One, or K1W1 in short, has invested and supported a wide range of New Zealand start-up technology businesses, including companies in the ICT, biotechnology, health care and environmental sectors. Many of these investments are done directly, but commitments are also made through New Zealand Venture Capital funds. Investments include a number of previous Hi-Tech award winners. K1W1 recognises the difficulties and challenges that people behind technology companies face. These people will determine New Zealand’s success in the technology area worldwide, and K1W1 therefore looks to assist such companies, not only with financial help but also to provide contacts and networks”

Stephen Tindall, Founder
K One W One

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Category Sponsor:
Fronde Journalist Award

THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS

We design, build and operate industrial-strength business transaction and payment systems which connect the world to your business, and your business to the world. We do the things that make your business different - helping you to connect to your customers, staff and business partners through smart, secure, high-performance online and mobile applications. Our clients are medium and large organisations in the finance, software, telecommunications, energy, transport, distribution and government sectors.

  • Fronde Synergy designs and builds high performance, high volume, secure and resilient business applications, including integration with existing systems;
  • Fronde Always manages, supports and hosts your applications, in our data centres or yours, including multi-site and multi-national networks;
  • Fronde Anywhere connects your business applications to your customers, suppliers and service points (e.g. vending and parking machines) anywhere, anytime, via our mobile commerce transaction and payment application software frameworks and secure transaction gateways, which also link to banks and telecommunications operators.

Our reputation is based on proven delivery, technical expertise, and good working relationships with our clients' people. Our 200+ IT professionals operate around the world from offices in Britain, Singapore, and New Zealand, supporting clients in Australasia, East Asia, Europe and North America.

“The hi-tech sector needs a vibrant, informed and informative media. As customers, vendors or advisors, as employers or employees, as investors or investees, and as competitors or business partners, we all look to the media to both inform ourselves and to inform others. To have great hi-tech media, we need great hi-tech journalists, and Fronde is proud to sponsor this award to recognize and encourage their achievements.”

Jim Donovan, CEO
Fronde Systems Group Ltd

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Website Supporter:
Shift Logo

Shift is New Zealand's leading web design firm. We combine creative excellence, user-centred design and business strategy to architect, build and deliver exceptional online experiences.

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Sponsor:
Xero Logo

To most businesses, the term 'accounting' is synonymous with tedious data entry, painful compliance and ineffectual record-keeping; not surprising, considering the systems available.

Xero is the online accounting system that gives you access to the financial tools, resources and know-how that helps you with your business. It connects you in real-time to your accountant and advisors from anywhere in the world. It gives you an overview of your business at a glance. It streamlines your workflow and secures your data.

At the heart of Xero is a full accrual accounting system, including a cashbook with automated daily banks feeds, invoicing, debtors, creditors, GST and reporting. Xero saves you time because it uses the Internet to automate many previously manual processes like bank reconciliation.

Put simply, it lets you focus on the things that matter with the knowledge that you're never alone.

Xero was founded in July 2006 by successful technology entrepreneur Rod Drury and specialist small business accountant Hamish Edwards. Xero is now a fast growing company with offices in Wellington and Auckland, and is listed on the New Zealand Stock Exchange.

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Sponsor:
OneSquared Logo

OneSquared is a specialist Internet infrastructure company focused on providing innovative, secure services to businesses and government organisations worldwide. Our services fall into four categories, which collectively encompass the full range of internet services likely to be required by any organisation:

   1. Managed Shared Solutions
   2. Multiple Country Infrastructure
   3. Mission Critical Managed Solutions
   4. Complex Solutions

This means that whatever your need, from a domain name or a small website, to servers and network connections managed around the clock in multiple locations, OneSquared has a solution for you.

OneSquared is part of the Modica Group.

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Media Supporter:
FairfaxBM Logo
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Unlimited Logo
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Media Supporter:
Idealog Logo
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Associate Awards Programme Sponsorship:
Consensus Logo

The Consensus Software Awards are the only independently judged Awards for Australian and New Zealand software. Established in1999, the Awards now enjoy a high profile through the calibre and success of its winners, and the strength of long-standing sponsor agreements with the likes of IBM, Microsoft, the Australian Government and International Developer Magazine.

The New Zealand Hi-Tech Association (NZHTA) is very pleased to announce that an agreement has been reached with Consensus Awards that provides the opportunity for selected winners and finalists of the 2007 PricewaterhouseCoopers New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards to directly enter the Consensus Software Awards. The collaboration will include payment of the CSA $A990 entry fee by NZHTA on behalf of those selected and the joint Consensus promotion of both award programmes and their winners. A number of Australian based judges of the Consensus Software Awards are also expected to volunteer their services to assist the NZHTA.

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