Drury credits Napier Boys’ High School teacher Bob McCaw for sparking his interest in technology in the early 1980s. “I got to take it home on the weekend and play with it, which was pretty cool,” Drury remembers. Drury - then a member of the Government's Flag Consideration Panel - during a public meeting at Baycourt in Tauranga in 2015. Now based in Queenstown, Drury stepped down as Xero CEO in 2018 and left the company’s board in 2023. He joined the Herald in 2018 and is the technology editor and a senior business writer.

Source: New Zealand Herald December 30, 2025 19:01 UTC