I have a motto of living life to the full. I love adventure, travelling and all things sport related. I’m lucky to have wonderful parents from both sides of the war (Germany and England) who chose New Zealand as the place to bring me and my wonderfully talented sister into the world. It’s tough finding a better place than paradise to grow up in

Summers on the beach, hiking, playing tennis and visits with great family friends, interspersed with winters on the mountain or taking off to Europe and beyond on numerous family vacations means I have a passion for travel. My goal is to visit half the countries in the world and at 41 and counting I have some way to go!

I am thankful for my folks sending me to an all female school that only tolerated excellence and a university that allowed me to cram two excellent business degrees into 4 years whilst allowing me to enter the real world of work in between study.

I’ve dabbled in modelling, TV sports presenting and even winning a Regional Body Sculpting competition and competing nationally.

And life just seems to keep getting better for me. Moving to London, England in 2006 I racked up 300 consecutive days of travel around Europe and became adept at living out of a suitcase. I played Ultimate Frisbee on too many beautiful beaches and luscious fields with the most wonderful free spirited community of players I’ve ever known.

I got to experience breaking a world record in 2007 with the Sisterhood by Dragon Boating across the English Channel and raising lots of money for great charities. I was part of the GB women’s team that won the first Gold Medal for UK at the World Beach championships in Brazil.

In amongst all this I’ve managed to actually build up some useful skills in marketing, communication and product management across a variety of industries. I have a habit of jumping around in jobs and always aiming above myself to keep eternally challenged and stimulated.

Now, based in Vancouver,  I’ve found my place in life as an `entrepreneur’ cofounding a start up and producing FundRazr – a Web 2.0 payments platform for social networks
Living in this city that repeatedly hits No 1 in the world of for best quality of living means that my life couldn’t be better.