Terry VerhoevenTerry Verhoeven is founder and Principal of Rights Institute. Terry's passion for rights and liberty extends back to 1999 when he was introduced to the writings of Ayn Rand. That introduction led to him to becoming a member and list candidate of Libetarianz, an Objectivism-based political party with a principled platform focused on upholding individual rights. He also took on the role of Libertarianz's membership coordinator for an election cycle. For the past twenty years, Terry has been learning, thinking about, and advocating for, individual rights. Careerwise, Terry has founded a number of successful businesses, including in distribution, sales, finance, and technology. In the 1990s, as a factory distributor for a subsidiary of a Berkshire Hathaway owned company, he recruited, trained and managed more than one thousand sales people, achieving sales targets that earned him international awards. In the 2000s, he pioneered a prompt payment service in New Zealand, Veripay, that dramatically reduced late payments to finance companies. Around the same time he also established and grew a low cost GPS tracking service, Verifind. Both of the latter businesses were sold in 2009. Terry then went on launch and develop a motivational poster business. Nowadays, when he is not busy with Rights Institute, Terry researches and writes about Renaissance art. Read More Read Less