By Deborah Hill Cone
Friday 2nd August 2002 |
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Mr Peace was a category winner and finalist for the award in 1999 but lost out to Hynds Pipe Systems founder John Hynds.
Three years on Mr Peace is back in the running, being selected as one of 23 finalists for this year's award.
The 2000 winner was Seaworks founder and Business Roundtable vice-chairman Bill Day and last year's winner was Atlantis founder Michael Whittaker.
A former computer programmer and University of Auckland lecturer with an MPhil in information systems, Mr Peace set up his software company Peace, which specialises in systems for the energy industry, in 1987.
The category winners - young and master entrepreneurs and winners in the retail, property, service, manufacturing and communications categories - will be announced in two weeks.
Judges this year are retailer Michael Hill, music entrepreneur Murray Thom, fishing magnate Sir Clifford Skeggs, Knowledge Wave Trust head Bridget Wickham and Mr Whittaker.
The other finalists are:
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