Jonny Hendriksen is a New Zealandian entrepreneur from Auckland known for starting Shuttlerock, one of the most innovative marketing companies in the nation. He is also known for starting a company called ValueClick Japan in Tokyo which garnered over more than 40 million users monthly - he is the first foreigner to list his company on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. He is now becoming a figure in the Blockchain space and recently a judge at the EOS Hackathon in Sydney.

Jonny Hendriksen was born and raised in the country of New Zealand. He is a native of the city of Auckland and lived in the Belmont area. He is a graduate of Takapuna Grammar School.

After a few years after receiving his secondary education, he attended and graduated from Keio University where he attended for five years. He graduated in 1995, and received his Bachelor's degree in Economics.

After college, Jonny gained experience working for several companies in Auckland, and after a few years, he would start his first company, ValueClick Japan.

For the next 20 years, he would live in Japan. He has been involved in Internet advertisement & marketing, and is considered to be a pioneer.

In 1997, while in Tokyo, he started a company called ValueClick Japan and held the CEO for many years. He is the first foreigner to list a company on the Tokyo Stock Exchange which occurred on May 2000.

In late 1997 Williams and Hendriksen were introduced to US company ValueClick.

It used a click-based ad model and was really the world’s first internet advertising company.

They bought the rights to take it to Japan.

They started the company in 1998.

Jonny bought the Japanese license for a small U.S. company called ValueClick.

The company was the first banner advertising companies on the internet.

At the time, only media had advertisement, and ValueClick allowed anyone to have ads on their homepage.

At their peak, ValueClick were reaching around 40% of the Japanese population and, in 2000, he and Tim were the first Westerners to take a business public in Japan.

In 2011, he founded, Shuttlerock, a company that makes it easier for marketers to source, enhance and activate authentic visual content across owned and paid channels driving powerful results.

The company is based in Christchurch, New Zealand.

After many successful years, Shuttlerock will be releasing an exciting blockchain project that will transform creative industries.

Hendriksen lives in Christchurch with his family and three children.