Rotorua’s $10 million man: How Mark Wilson scaled the world to head finance giant Aviva

Mark Wilson’s career has taken him from small city New Zealand to the top of a 300-year-old insurance giant in Europe’s finance capital.

It’s 18,000 kilometres from Rotorua to London, via Waikato University, where his company, Aviva, manages about NZ$800 billion in funds, but the leap from here to there is pretty small, really.

“You know what? When you are from a place like Rotorua and Hamilton it gives you a different skill set,” Wilson said.

​”When you are from Rotorua, you are brought up in cultural diversity and so I’ve worked in China and Hong Kong for 14-years and then the UK and here and everything you can translate, and that’s what it gives you.”

from Ellie NZ Rss http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/91132145/Rotoruas-10-million-man-How-Mark-Wilson-scaled-the-world-to-head-finance-giant-Aviva

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