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 Brian
Sweeney is co-founder and producer of nzedge.com. He is a corporate
advisor in business strategy and communications.
He studied Political Science at the University of Waikato New Zealand
1976-79, and there edited the notorious student newspaper Nexus. He was
awarded the Blackwood Paul Prize for New Zealand Studies by the
university, and elected Chairman of New Zealand Students’ Arts Council
1980-82.
His first business was as an entrepreneur, producer and agent in the
entertainment business in New Zealand and Australia (rock music, blues,
c+w, performance, jazz, theater, dance, opera and comedy, winning 1988
Grand Jury Prize at the Clement Ferrand Short Film Festival, France, for
Stalin’s Sickle, as producer with Costa Botes).
Since 1993 Brian Sweeney has been part of the TED (Technology,
Entertainment and Design) Conference www.ted.com in Monterey California
convened by Chris Anderson and originally created by information architect Richard
Saul Wurman.
Today he is Chairman, Director and co-founder (in 1987) of
SweeneyVesty, a consultancy providing advice, strategy, communications and
resources to corporate organizations and brands in New Zealand, Australia,
the United States and the world.
In a private capacity, he is partner with Kevin Roberts in the idea of
The New Zealand Edge and their website www.nzedge.com. Brian Sweeney grew
up in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty, and lives in New Zealand and New York
with his family.
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