Greater Melbourne Area
Wayne Fitzsimmons is an experienced executive who has worked extensively in the US, UK, and in his home country of Australia. In 1997, Wayne founded OpenDirectory Pty Ltd, having previously been Managing Director of Datacraft Technologies from which the Directory technology emerged. OpenDirectory emerged as the global leader in large-scale distributed directory systems. Before joining Datacraft in December 1993, Mr. Fitzsimmons spent 14 years in senior positions in the USA and Europe. This included being Vice President, International, at Banyan Systems Inc., New England (1990-94) and Vice President, Americas Far East, for Data General Corporation, Massachusetts (1983-90). He started DG in Australia in 1973 after 6 years at Fairchild Semiconductor in Adelaide and Melbourne. After graduation in 1964, he worked at Aeronautical Research Labs (ARL) in Fishermans Bend, Victoria, followed by a design engineer role at Weapons Research Establishment (WRE), Salisbury South Australia (both Labs are now part of Defence Science). After the sale of OpenDirectory in 1998, Wayne has worked as director, venture capitalist and entrepreneur in the Australian ICT sector.
The Pearcey Foundation promotes the ICT industry to Australiand Australians through a set of annual state and national awards so as to attract the best and brightest into science, engineering and ICT especially.
Member of the Electrical Engineering Department's Industry Advisory Group
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Cohda Wireless is the world leader in Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V), Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) communications systems and software. A global success story out of the University of South Australia, Cohda Wireless manufactures advanced sensor sub-systems from its Adelaide base and supports its many global customers from offices in Munich and Detroit.
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