Endace-d it with NZ Hi Tech award win

Last updated 00:00 04/11/2007

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Network monitoring company Endace was the big winner at the PricewaterhouseCoopers NZ Hi-Tech Awards, announced at the Wellington Town Hall last night.

The awards were inaugurated 14 years ago to recognise NZ technology businesses that are leading their industries, both domestically and overseas, and acknowledge the people behind them.

Endace took out the PricewaterhouseCoopers Supreme Award for "boldly venturing where few NZ companies had even thought of going," according to the judges.

"An international exporter since day one, Endace stood out this year with its strong combination of product, market and business leadership," they said.

The awards also honoured Gallagher Group founder and chairman Bill Gallagher and the late Trevor Eagle the founder of Eagle Technologies who died in 2000 for the leading contributions they had made to this country's technology sector.

They were joint recipients of the Bell Gully Flying Kiwi Award.

Online accounting system company Xero was also well represented, receiving the award for the best public relations and marketing plan.

Craig Walker, who leads Xero's software development team, won the Endace Young Achiever award.

Other winners were:

Professional Advisor Award: Connect NZ.

Fronde Journalist Award: Divina Paredes, editor of CIO magazine.

NZX Entrepreneur Award: Joint winners, Xero chief executive Rod Drury and Serko chief executive Darrin Grafton.

IRL Emerging Company Award: Energy Mad.

K One W One High Growth Award: Energy Mad.

Tahia Investments Company Leader Award: Richard Mander, chief executive of HumanWare.

Enatel Innovation Award: Fronde Anywhere.

Avnet Corporate Award: HumanWare.