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Biography
Adrian Di Marco is an Australian entrepreneur and businessman. He is the founder and Executive Chairman of TechnologyOne, Australia's largest enterprise software company.
Di Marco founded TechnologyOne at the front of a hide processing plant in 1987 with a small amount of capital provided by JL Mactaggart Industries, and in December 1999 he led the company into its listing on the ASX making it one of the most successful floats 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, delivering large scale enterprise software as a service.
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, 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 fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (FAICD). The AICD is a governing body aimed at assisting members to improve their quality of governance and directorship.
Philanthropy
Di Marco is active in philanthropic endeavours. Some of the charities he has supported include the Salvation Army, Mission Australia, World Vision, Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation as a past director of the Board, and Tanzania’s The School of St Jude 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. In 2004 he won the Pearcey Award 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. In 2010 he received the Tony Benson award for outstanding contribution to the Australian ICT industry and was awarded the highest honour of the Australian Computer Society in recognition of distinguished contribution to the field of ICT in Australia.
Di Marco was inducted into the Pearcey Hall of Fame in 2015, was named by AFR Boss as one of 2015’s top ten CEOs who deliver, and was included in SmartCompany’s 2015 list of top ten most influential people in the Australian IT industry. Di Marco was also named in the 2016 list of CEOs who deliver.