AN AUDIENCE WITH ‘THE GODFATHER’
When Don Christie first launched Catalyst in 1997, the technology landscape in New Zealand, and indeed the rest of the world, was vastly different to today.
Don had a background in writing software for industrial processes – one standout project involved writing software to monitor the as-yet unfilled Lake Dunstan for the hydro-electric scheme in Cromwell.
But he had always wanted to carry on the family tradition of business ownership, and hankered for a business that could work well in this country, as well as create technology that could be exported.
Catalyst has five founding directors – all driven to do something a bit
