Vicki Hyde

She is co-owner with her husband Peter of a New Zealand-based software and web development company, Webcentre Ltd. Hyde resides in Christchurch.

Hyde's company also worked with Dutton in 1998 to launch the Cybereditions e-book and print-on-demand publishing operation, which Webcentre owns outright.

Hyde was also founder and managing editor of New Zealand Science Monthly magazine which was published for the full decade from 1990 to 2000.

During that time she authored Godzone Skies, Astronomy for New Zealanders and helped launch and market Webcentre's flagship TurboNote software.

[4] In her leisure time, Hyde can be found in an alternate persona as a Baroness of Southron Gaard, a branch of the international Society for Creative Anachronism.

Vicky Hyde in 2010
Hyde (front left), after her investiture as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit by the governor-general, Sir Jerry Mateparae , at Government House, Wellington , on 23 May 2013