Andrew Harmos is the chairman of NZX Limited and was a founding director of Harmos Horton Lusk Limited, an Auckland-based corporate legal advisory firm. He has overseen significant growth as chairman or director of several New Zealand companies including Xero, NZX, 42 Below, and Charlies, growing their valuations from millions to hundreds of millions within a few short years. A 2011 newspaper article quoted Harmos saying that New Zealand could become the "Silicon Valley of agricultural knowledge".

1. Andrew Harmos
Chairman of NZX Limited
Founding director
Harmos Horton Lusk Limited
Auckland-based specialist corporate
legal advisory firm

2. •Xero - $5m to $200 m in 4 years
•NZX – $15m to $300 m in 9 years (that’s after
returning capital and paying healthy dividends)
•42 Below – not much to $140 million in just a
few years
•Charlies – 10 cents a share to 44 cents ($130
million) in the last 2 years

3. New Zealand could be the
“Silicon Valley of agricultural
knowledge”
NZ Herald - 7 July 2011