About Nat Torkington
I ran the first web server in New Zealand; moved to the US in 1995; cowrote The Perl Cookbook, edited technical books for O’Reilly Media; ran conferences on bioinformatics, Internet-enabled geospatial technologies, new voice technology, and open source software (including OSCON for ten years); moved back to New Zealand in 2005; run Kiwi Foo Camp; consult and teach. My homepage is at nathan.torkington.com. I live and work in Leigh, New Zealand.
Advisory Roles
I enjoy helping startups with technology, product, and business decisions. I was an advisor to Zimbra (bought by Yahoo! for USD350M), and presently am an advisor to Silverstripe.