About Zef

Zef’s career was launched at Tearaway Magazine in 1988 where he became part of the strategic team that made Tearaway New Zealand’s top-rating youth publication in both circulation and readership.

Zef then moved to television production and in 1992, with Vidmark Productions, broke new ground by producing New Zealand’s first television commercial animated in 3D (…featuring a toilet roll rock band…)

At the same time Zef founded ‘Global Groove’ – a radio show featuring ethnic dance music – becoming one of Radio One’s top rating radio shows for the five years it was running.

In 1994 Zef launched ‘Global Groove – the Website’ – featuring music articles, record reviews, animation and snippets of original music downloads.

He has since worked for various web and multimedia companies including Synergy International, CWA New Media, Next Media, Spunk Media and Provoke Solutions.

He is currently working as an Information Designer and Writer for Click Suite.

Originally from Dunedin, Zef’s ancestors (the Wilsons, Careys and Wyndhams) were amongst the first European settlers in the Otago region of New Zealand.

Prominent ancestral landmarks include Careys Bay (Port Chalmers), Blueskin Bay (Waitati), and the town of Wyndham in Southland.

The other side of the family hail from Russia. Zef’s great grandfather packed his bags for Baker Street in London following one the USSR’s infamous revolutions. Years later he landed in Auckland, New Zealand where he ran a chemist shop for many years. Somewhere mixed up in all that, on both sides of the family, is some ancestry from Southern France and/or Northern Spain.

Zef’s last name ‘Fugaz’ is Spanish for “fleeting” – and when combined with his middle name (’Estrella’) – translates as “Shooting Star” or “Comet”.

Zef lives on the Kapiti Coast and works in Wellington, New Zealand.