Mike O’Donnell (MOD)

Head of Operations, TradeMe

Mike “MOD” O’Donnell works as Head of Operations for Trade Me. Prior to this he was Head of  Commercial and Regulatory, and has worked in a number of senior roles in media, marketing and investment. He has also worked in government, in New Zealand and offshore.

MOD is currently on boards of Serato Audio Research and Positively Wellington, chairs the NZ Police Web Oversight Group and acts as adviser to organisations going through change, typically change connected with customer access or the web.

Sixteen years ago John Perry Barlow described cyberspace as the new home of the mind, and told Governments that they had no sovereignty there.  More recently Kim Dotcom proved Barlow wrong as his home was taken commando style North of Auckland, at the behest of a foreign Government .  It’s timely that the local denizens of cyberspace come together to figure out how best to harness the opportunities and mitigate the risks that the internet delivers