An Alumni Evening with Rowan Simpson - 18 Oct 2011 17:30

The ECS Alumni invite you to take part in a seminar to be led by Rowan Simpson who built and launched flathunt.co.nz, which became part of TradeMe. Rowan is an experienced software developer who is passionate about creating great products that people love to use. Rowan worked at TradeMe from 2000 and saw the site grow from 10,000 members to 100,000 in just over 18 months. He then worked in London, and travelled through Europe, before returning to Trade Me in 2004 to lead the growing software development team and then the product team. F rom 2007 until 2008, Rowan was employed by Xero in a product strategy role. In 2010 Rowan co-founded Southgate Labs, a software studio specialising in web and mobile applications.

He continues to advise a number of early-stage ventures, including Vend, Fishpond, Sonar6 and SMX. Come and hear how he did all this, see him in action and ask him questions.

When: 5.30pm-7pm Tuesday 18 October

Where: Alan MacDiarmid Building, AM102 Victoria University of Wellington, Gate 6, Kelburn Parade

Drinks and nibbles to be served from 5.30pm with the seminar taking place at 6pm.

RSVP by Thursday 13 October to Sue Hall: suzan.hall@vuw.ac.nz or telephone 463 6577 including names attending.