Technology High-fliers

Marketing entrepreneur Andy Lark is the latest New Zealander to land a top job at a leading US technology firm. Lark has been appointed global vice-president of marketing and communications at Dell, one of the world’s largest computer makers. He joins former Carter Holt Harvey boss Chris Liddell, now chief financial officer at Microsoft, and ex-EDS sales head Michael Boustridge, who now leads British Telecom’s business in the Americas. As the chairman of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise’s Beachhead programme in the US, Lark has a strong involvement with NZ businesses and industry programs. “Fortunately, Dell is supportive of my efforts to help New Zealand companies thrive in the US and other markets,” he said in the NZ Herald. “I wouldn’t have taken the role if it had meant giving that up.”