Graham GAYLARD

CEO of Mega

Graham GAYLARD

CEO of Mega

Biography

Graham, currently the CEO of Mega Ltd, has 30 years’ experience in the information technology sector. Before joining Mega in 2014, Graham was the co- founder and Chief Executive of NetValue Limited, a ten year old web, applications development and hosting company based in Hamilton, New Zealand.

In 2009 Graham founded Real Time Genomics Inc., a San Francisco based bioinformatics company. Graham raised Silicon Valley venture capital funding from Catamount Ventures, Lightspeed Ventures as well as New Zealand venture capital from Evander Management.

Prior to NetValue Graham co-founded software company Computer Systems Engineering, and Wave Internet. In 2000, both CSE and Wave were sold to an American software technology firm. Graham’s positions raged from Chief Architect through to Manager of Research and Development. Prior to this Graham has held IT technical and management positions in NZ Dairy Group, (now Fonterra) as a systems engineer, and various roles with Telecom NZ (now Spark), including as a Senior Electrician, Electrical Engineering Associate and Applications Development Consultant.

Passionate about technology based ventures and entrepreneurship, Graham is currently the Chair of SODA Inc., a Waikato based incubator for start-ups and also guest lecturer at tertiary institutions. Graham has also provided business consulting for technology based start-up companies as well as undertaking private angel investments.