Jodee Rich
| Jodee Rich | |
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| Born |
1 February 1960 New York City |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Education |
Cranbrook School University of Sydney |
| Occupation | Founder Imagineering Australia Founder One.Tel Founder and CEO PeopleBrowsr |
| Spouse(s) | Maxine Rich, née Brenner |
| Parent(s) | Steven and Gail Rich |
John David "Jodee" Rich (born 1960) is an Australian businessman, the CEO and founder of social analytics and influence measurement provider PeopleBrowsr and the creator of new TLDs dotCEO, dotBest and dotKred. He is described by Business Spectator as a "charismatic but drama prone entrepreneur" and "the man behind failed phone company One.Tel and one time computer sensation Imagineering Australia".
Rich was born to a German Jewish father, Steven Rich, who in 1963 settled in Australia to manage Hunter Douglas, a venetian blind manufacturer, and an Australian mother. Steven went on to create the Traveland travel agency, was the deputy chairman of the Salvation Army in 1971 and was awarded an Order of Australia in 2001. He subsequently created Focus Publishing.
Jodee Rich wrote his first software programme on punch cards in 1972 at the age of 12. He was educated at Cranbrook School in Bellevue Hill, Sydney. During his Cranbrook days Rich started a business renting fish tanks. At Cranbrook he met Rodney Adler who would become a director of One.Tel. In 1980 Rich developed a commodity analysis system on 64k Apple II, which he later sold to investment banks. He studied Accounting, Economics and Computer Science at University of Sydney, earning a BEc in 1981.
In 1987, Rich married Maxine Brenner, a corporate lawyer who has sat on the board of a public company, Neverfail Springwater, and has served as a member of the Takeovers Panel, a government body involved in the resolution of sharemarket disputes.
In 1981, Rich launched Imagineering Australia and the company was floated in 1987. Shares in Imagineering peaked at $8 but the company sold to a Hong Kong group for 10c a share in 1990.
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