My Net Worth: David Downs, CEO, NZ Story Group

My Net Worth: David Downs, CEO, NZ Story Group
David Downs says he can face anything after surviving both cancer and a bombing at comedy in front of hundreds of people. (Image: Supplied)
Ben Moore
David Downs is renowned in New Zealand’s tech industry for his work promoting local tech abroad with NZ Story, as the (now outgoing) chair of the NZ Hi-Tech Awards and chair of The Icehouse. He sits on various boards, is a vocal advocate for genetic medical science, and was the first New Zealander to undergo the revolutionary Car T cell therapy.I was born in Whanganui to two Irish immigrants, so I’m definitely a New Zealander, but also very culturally Irish.We were sent to school on St. Patrick's Day in green and my horrified si...

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