Name:Darin McKay. Title: Country manager, Stonebridge Systems SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe Age: Wrong side of 40 Where were you educated? School of hard knocks and a short stint at AUT. Where do you live? East Central Auckland. What are your interests away from work? I enjoy watching most sport these days especially my kids who seem to be into everything. What are you reading at the moment? The effective executive by Peter F. Drucker. What is your favourite movie? Why? No country for old men, a Coen Brothers movie, they don’t make bad movies. Stars Tommy Lee Jones and Woody Harrelson are both great actors. What is the most memorable place you’ve been to? Most recently, Dubai. I loved the ski field at the shopping mall and the Whale shark swimming by a the Aquarium. It is just a very different place. What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received? Don’t sweat the small stuff. Professionally, who do you admire most? Steve Jobs, he is the king of the comebacks and an outright flawed genius. How long have you been working in IT? Remember when Australia won the Americas cup? That gives you a hint…Put this way, very few had a PC on their desk at that time! If you weren’t working in IT, What would you be doing? Really can’t answer that as I have pretty much always have been working in IT. What was your first job? Delivering the milk after school. In IT, it was as sales rep for Olympia office memory based typewriters. What’s the best thing about working with IT executives? The incredibly varied backgrounds they often come from – ex-Army, Police, professional sports, lawyers, accountants, engineers – the list goes on and on, which all makes working with them all the more interesting. What is the worst? Nothing comes to mind, to be fair!! What is your favourite networking situation? Sports event in a box at Eden park…any sport!! Send feedback to divina_paredes@idg.co.nz Follow Divina Paredes on Twitter: @divinap Follow CIO New Zealand on Twitter:@cio_nz Sign up for CIO newsletters for regular updates on CIO news, views and events. Join us on Facebook. Related content news Oracle bolsters distributed cloud, AI strategy with new Mexico cloud region The second cloud region in Monterrey, providing over 100 OCI services, is part of Oracle's plan to compete with AWS, Google and Microsoft, and cash in on enterprise interest in generative AI. By Anirban Ghoshal Sep 26, 2023 3 mins Generative AI Generative AI Generative AI brandpost Zero Trust: Understanding the US government’s requirements for enhanced cybersecurity By Jaye Tillson, Field CTO at HPE Aruba Networking Sep 26, 2023 4 mins Zero Trust feature SAP prepares to add Joule generative AI copilot across its apps Like Salesforce and ServiceNow, SAP is promising to embed an AI copilot throughout its applications, but planning a more gradual roll-out than some competitors. By Peter Sayer Sep 26, 2023 5 mins CIO SAP Generative AI brandpost Mitigating mayhem in a complex hybrid IT world How to build a resilient enterprise in the face of unexpected (and expected) IT mayhem moments. By Greg Lotko, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Mainframe Software Division Sep 26, 2023 7 mins Hybrid Cloud Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe