Graeme Avery
Sir Graeme Avery | |
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.jpg) Avery in 2014 | |
| Born | Graeme Seton Avery 18 June 1941 |
| Occupation | Businessman |
Sir Graeme Seton Avery KNZM (born 18 June 1941)[1] is a New Zealand businessman and philanthropist. After training as a pharmacist, he founded medical publishing company Adis International in 1963, and it had an annual turnover of $100 million when he sold it to Wolters Kluwer in 1996.[1][2][3] The following year, he co-founded Sileni Wine Estates in Hawke's Bay.[2]
As a young man, Avery played first-grade rugby in Sydney, and was a 400-metre runner.[3] He was a founder of the North Shore Bays athletics club with Dave Norris, and in 2002 he joined with Stephen Tindall and Auckland University of Technology (AUT) to establish the $30 million Millennium Institute of Sport and Health as an elite sports academy.[2][4] In 2009, Avery became chair of the AUT Millennium Ownership Trust.[2]
In 1990, Avery was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.[5] In the 2007 Queen’s Birthday Honours, he was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to business and sport,[6] and in the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours he was promoted to Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, also for services to business and sport.[7]
Avery was named New Zealander of the Year in 2003 by Metro magazine, and in 2006 he was conferred an honorary doctorate by AUT.[4] In 2014, Avery was inducted into the New Zealand Business Hall of Fame.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Rawson, Emma (18 June 2014). "Future focus is great business". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 17 August 2019.
- ^ a b c d Downes, Siobhan (19 August 2014). "Sir Graeme Avery 'still the same'". Dominion Post. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
- ^ a b "Sir Graeme sees healthy spinoffs". Hawke's Bay Today. 12 June 2016. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
- ^ a b Keall, Chris (2 June 2014). "Avery knighted for services to business, sport". National Business Review. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
- ^ Taylor, Alister; Coddington, Deborah (1994). Honoured by the Queen – New Zealand. Auckland: New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa. p. 52. ISBN 0-908578-34-2.
- ^ "Queen's Birthday honours list 2007". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 4 June 2007. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
- ^ "Queen's Birthday honours list 2014". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 2 June 2014. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
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