Rod OlsenBorn in New Zealand in 1945, Rod Olsen spent his early years on a sheep farm, but when he graduated from high school, the one certainty in life was that he did not want to be a farmer. He earned a degree in Finance and Commercial law from Victoria Unversity and qualified as a Chartered Accountant, then left New Zealand for the wider world. He has since lived variously in London, Paris, Sydney, Hong Kong and Auckland. He worked for Cable & Wireless in Hong Kong for 22 years, also serving on the board of the Standard Chartered Bank for 6 years. At 53, he retired from the large corporate world and started a whole new career as a consultant and advisor to early stage technology companies. Outside the business world, Rod has been an enthusiastic cross-country runner and long distance hiker. His longest trek was along the Pyrenean mountain trail that follows the French/Spanish border for 900 kilometres between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Read More Read Less