Adrian Di Marco

Adrian Di Marco
Adrian Di Marco – Executive chairman TechnologyOne.[1]
Residence Brisbane, Australia.
Nationality Australian
Occupation Executive chairman of TechnologyOne
Years active 1987–present
Known for Founder of TechnologyOne

Adrian Di Marco is an Australian entrepreneur and businessman. He is the founder and Executive chairman of TechnologyOne, Australia's largest enterprise software company.[2]

Career

Di Marco founded TechnologyOne at the front of a hide processing plant in 1987[3] with a small amount of capital[4] provided by JL Mactaggart Industries,[5] and in December 1999 he led the company into its listing on the ASX making it one of the most successful floats[6] of the DotCom era.

Under Di Marco's leadership TechnologyOne has built a global software platform having expanded into New Zealand, Asia, South Pacific and the United Kingdom. TechnologyOne is now developing one of the largest Software as a service (SaaS) platforms in the Australasian region,[7] delivering large scale enterprise software as a service.[8]

In January 2016 Di Marco announced that he was planning to resign in the next year or two,[9] and in April 2017 he announced that on 23 May, when the company released its half-year results, he would step down as CEO and that the COO, Edward Chung, would take over. Di Marco remained as executive chairman.[10][11]

Community involvement

Di Marco is an active member of the Australian IT community. He has been a past director of the Australian Information Industry Association, the peak body for the Australian IT industry. He was also a founding member of Software Queensland,[12] an organisation established to promote the Queensland Software industry, and chairman of the advisory board for inQbator, a company that incubates start up IT companies, providing them with funding to commercialise their ideas.

He is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (MAICD). The AICD is a governing body aimed at assisting members to improve their quality of governance and directorship.[13]

Philanthropy

Di Marco is active in philanthropic endeavours. Some of the charities he has supported include the Salvation Army, Mission Australia, World Vision,[14] Royal Children's Hospital Foundation[15] as a past director of the Board, and Tanzania's The School of St Jude[16] for which TechnologyOne helped build the school's first E-Learning program.

Awards and accolades

In 2001 Di Marco was awarded Entrepreneur of the Year award.[17] In 2004 he won the Pearcey Award[18] for innovative and pioneering achievement and contribution to research and development in IT.

Di Marco was named Business Person of the Year at the prestigious Brisbane Lord Mayor's Business Awards in 2009.[19] In 2010 he received the Tony Benson award for outstanding contribution to the Australian ICT industry[20] and was awarded the highest honour of the Australian Computer Society[21] in recognition of distinguished contribution to the field of ICT in Australia.

Di Marco was inducted into the Pearcey Hall of Fame in 2015,[22] was named by AFR Boss as one of 2015's top ten CEOs who deliver,[23] and was included in SmartCompany's 2015 list of top ten most influential people in the Australian IT industry.[24] Di Marco was also named in the 2016 list of CEOs who deliver.[25]

References

  1. ↑ Adrian Di Marco – Executive Chairman of TechnologyOne
  2. ↑ R&D tax credits are ‘wasted’: TechnologyOne founder
  3. ↑ TechnologyOne CEO Adrian Di Marco prepares to pass the baton
  4. ↑ The dos and don'ts: Adrian Di Marco's lessons to success
  5. ↑ TechnologyOne's winning formula
  6. ↑ Why TechnologyOne's Adrian Di Marco will not list on the ASX again?
  7. ↑ TechnologyOne braces for new competition
  8. ↑ Di Marco's seven year renewal cycle
  9. ↑ Redrup, Yolanda (18 January 2016). "TechnologyOne CEO Adrian Di Marco prepares to pass the baton". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  10. ↑ Redrup, Yolanda (7 April 2017). "TechnologyOne CEO Adrian Di Marco steps down after 30 years". Financial Review.
  11. ↑ McLean, Asha (7 April 2017). "TechnologyOne CEO and founder hands reins to current COO | ZDNet". ZDNet.
  12. ↑ Queensland software companies band up to claim back billions in revenue
  13. ↑ Australian Institute of Company Directors (FAICD) – About
  14. ↑ 2015 TechnologyOne Annual Report
  15. ↑ Royal Children's Hospital Foundation – Final Report 2011-2012
  16. ↑ Tanzania’s The School of St Jude
  17. ↑ 2012 Australian Association of Angel Investors (AAAI) National Angel Conference
  18. ↑ Pearcey Awards 2004
  19. ↑ Lord Mayor's Business Award
  20. ↑ Tony Benson Award
  21. ↑ Australian Computer Society – List of Fellows
  22. ↑ 2015 Pearcey Hall of Fame
  23. ↑ 2015’s top ten CEOs who deliver
  24. ↑ SmartCompany’s 2015 list of top ten most influential people in the Australian IT industry
  25. ↑ SmartCompany’s 2016 list of top ten most influential people in the Australian IT industry
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