Adrian Di Marco
Founder
Business and management
Technology One Ltd
Australia
Biography
Adrian Di Marco is an Australian entrepreneur and businessman. He is the founder and Executive Chairman of Technology One, 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. In January 2016 Di Marco announced that he was planning to resign in the next year or two, and in April 2017 he announced that on May 23, 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.
Research Interest
Business and management