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    AN AUDIENCE WITH ‘THE GODFATHER’

    Oct 22, 2019 4 minutes

    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

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