Jodee 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".
Family
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.
Education
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.
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