Derek Handley - founding CEO of Sir Richard Branson's The B Team

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Derek Handley

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In 2011 Derek Handley (https://www.linkedin.com/in/derekhandley) was named to the 'Silicon Alley 100' of the most influential technology people in New York as well as a World Class New Zealander and Sir Peter Blake Trust (http://www.sirpeterblaketrust.org/) Leader. Derek is a former New Zealand Herald Business Leader of the Year and Ernst & Young Young Entrepreneur of the Year in New Zealand.

Derek is co-founder and Chairman of mobile advertising network, Snakk Media (http://www.snakkmedia.com/), which listed on the NZX in 2013, becoming one of the first publicly listed B-Corporations in the world.

Derek is also founding CEO of Sir Richard Branson's The B Team (http://bteam.org/), a not-for-profit initiative formed by a global group of leaders to create a future where the purpose of business is to be a driving force for social, environmental and economic benefit. (from Wikipedia entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Handley))

An archive of his regular articles on NZ Entrepreneurship can be found at The New Zealand Herald.

"New Zealand is also quite generalist, because we are too small to have lots and lots of corporate departments where people spend their whole lives getting very good at one thing, we end up creating really brilliant all-rounders who have to be good at lots of things."

Derek will be sharing insights from his journey with Christchurch entrepreneurs, business leaders and change-makers and together share what is making Christchurch the unique place it is today.