Christopher Ride

Career

He lives in Melbourne, Australia. At age 20 Ride had lived in seven different countries including Burma, Peru, Turkey, Canada and the United States, witnessed three military coups, a category 5 hurricane, a 7.75 Richter scale earthquake and lived in Tanzania during the war against Idi Amin.

Achievements

• He is also managing director of Interactive, an Information Technology service provider, and has won the 2011 Southern Region Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Technology award.