About Straker

Straker are a privately held company with offices in San Francisco, Ireland, Auckland and Sydney. Founded in 1999 their Flagship product, the ShadoCMS Content Management System enables companies to build a rich, engaging, web presence in multiple languages.

Straker customers include some of the worlds leading organizations such as the Vanguard Investments, European Commision, Malaysian Government, Bass Pro Shops and Tourism New Zealand.

Since 2004 Straker have also been world leaders in the Adobe Flex technology set and ZoomFlex, our Flex rapid application development platform simplies the development of Flex applications and enables our customers to build richer, more engaging web applications.

Management Team

Meet some of the team who are continuing to build on the software, partner and technology offerings through Straker.

Grant Straker

Chief Executive Officer

Programmer, Engineer, Paratrooper, Ironman, Musician and Dad - Grant wears many hats and has had an incredibly varied set of experiences over the past 20 years. As one of the founders of Straker, Grants wide ranging experiences and skills places him in an ideal position to drive the growth of Straker as it continues to grow its Global presence.

Indiver Nagpal

Chief Technology Officer

Indiver (Indy) has been working in the area of web application development for over 13 years. During this time, he has been involved with various companies across different parts of the world -- India, Canada and New Zealand. Over the years, Indy has worked in different aspects of software development -- programming, project management, content development, training and consulting. As the CTO of Straker, Indy is responsible for setting the technical direction of the company across its ShadoCMS and ZoomFlex product sets. Indy is a certified Adobe trainer and spends more and more time on a plane training and meeting new clients and partners all over the world.

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Merryn Goble

General Manager

In her role as GM Merryn looks after the day-to-day running of Straker and makes sure that the every touchpoint with the company runs smoothly from Client Projects to Finance and everything in between After completing a Bachelor of Management Studies at Waikato University (1992), majoring in Management and HR, Merryn started work at CLEAR Communications, where she undertook a variety of administration, supervision and customer service roles. Following that experience, Merryn joined the pharmaceutical sector working as a Marketing Assistant before being promoted to a Product Manager position at Amcal Chemists

David Sowerby

GM - EMEA

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David has over 10 years experience in the Internet and tech industry. David is a Director in Straker and founder of Sportsys Pty Ltd. David's background in statistics, data analysis and a strong entrepreneurial drive has placed him in an ideal position to help accelerate the growth of a number of early stage ventures. He has proven experience in building businesses and has been directly responsible for growing a number of companies from both startup phase or as startup units within larger organizations. David has an Undergraduate Degree in Science from the University of Queensland, a Graduate Diploma in Management from CQU and a Masters of Business Administration from Trinity College Dublin

Steve Donovan

Finance

Steve is a former partner of Ernst & Young. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in the U.K. and has operated within the IT and finance industry in New Zealand for a number of years. Steve acts as Strakers Finance Director and has been working with technology companies across a range of industries.