Grant Thomson Grant is the founder and executive chairman of the DataCol Group. His strong entrepreneurial skills led him to found the business in 1999 and under his stewardship he has expanded, transformed and diversified the business. He has the strong ability to identify, recruit and lead good people. This strength has enabled him to focus on and position the business for growth. Grant possesses the innate ability to identify and act upon opportunities in the market.
Grant has been instrumental in assembling the DataCol Group Senior team. He is a well respected businessman who has the courage, vision and tenacity to make things happen. He has a loyal and committed team, and has developed a strong following with what he has achieved over the last seven (7) years. Grant has a particular strength in investing in people, strategic thinking and has a flair for building businesses. He is a successful South Island entrepreneur and he leads by example.

Jason K Rogers Jason is Group Managing Director and is leading the growth of the DataCol Group. He has helped to successfully reposition the business from an entrepreneurial to more mature organization with five businesses now in the portfolio. Jason has a background in private company management, private equity, investment banking and property, in the New Zealand, Australian, European and North American markets. He has over 10 years experience in a variety of industry sectors.

He has been involved in a number of successful businesses and transactions with experience in launching, building and operating businesses in a wide variety of industries around the World. Jason has strength in bringing the right people together to build businesses.

He is currently Chairman of Auckland security company Matrix Security Group. Matrix is an Auckland based integrated security services provider which has an alarm installation, alarm monitoring, guard and patrol services business.

He also holds directorships with Whakaue Holdings and Ngati Whakaue Tribal Lands ("NWTL"). Ngati Whakaue, along with two sister trusts, manage $150 million in assets. Whakaue Holdings manages the commercial and investment lands for NWTL.

Prior to 2003, Jason worked for Sir John Beckwith's CBE London based private investment vehicle Pacific Investments plc. Sir John Beckwith is one of the UK's most successful entrepreneurs. Jason was a director of corporate finance. The private equity team managed £120 million. While with Pacific he was involved with a number of acquisitions, capital raisings, stock exchange listings and was involved in businesses across a number of different sectors - including leisure, hotels, education, industrial warehousing, media, technology, sports and healthcare.

Jason started his career in 1993 with Ernst & Young ("EY") and became a member of ICANZ in 1996. While with EY he worked in their Auckland, San Francisco and London offices. He was with EY for six years, followed by one year as an Associate with Bankers Trust in 1998, the Investment Bank, in their London and Melbourne offices. While with Bankers Trust he worked in their securitisation, high yield debt and structured finance teams.

		John O'hara John O'Hara is an independent director of the DataCol group and a Palo Alto principal. He has over 20 years experience successfully growing IT businesses and taking them offshore. John has extensive experience in the United States, Canada and United Kingdom markets, with a particular emphasis on developing joint venture businesses and technology licensing programs to achieve high growth.

In terms of some of John's notable achievements:

• In 1995 he established Voyager which was New Zealand's 42nd Internet Service Provider. Twelve weeks after launch it was the largest in New Zealand, before Telecom launched Xtra. The business was listed in 1997 on the US Nasdaq market as a part of OzEmail.
• In 1996 he was appointed chief executive of a small electricity software company WEL Technology for WEL Energy. He led the growth of the business over a three year period where the business was subsequently sold to Spectrum listed on the NZ Stock Exchange. John completed several software licensing agreements such as Lucent in the US. He also established a joint venture company in Canada that was very successful and remains in operation today.
• In 1998 John established a joint venture company in the UK for Heathsoft, a leading pharmacy software company based in New Zealand.
• In 2002, John joined the board of Gen-i to assist in grooming the business for sale. The business was sold in 2004 to Telecom. During his time with Gen-i he resolved a number of critical issues for the business.

		Dean Johnson Dean is the DataCol Group Chief Financial Officer and has over 20 years experience in corporate finance roles, across a wide range of industries in New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom. Dean has a track record of developing high performing finance and administration teams, turning around under-performing teams and introducing good governance and best practice. He has experience in capital raising, mergers and acquisitions and trade sales.
Dean's vertical market experience includes IT, Telecommunications, Energy, FMCG, Consumer Retail, Finance, Entertainment, Hospitality and Property. Dean provides strong financial and strategic management to growing businesses.