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NSW 2012 "Entrepreneur of the Year" Award

Hon Andrew Stoner with joint NSW Pearcey winners, Jo Burston (right), and Soren Harner, VP for Engineering at Big Commerce (left) representing Mitch Harper and Eddie Machaalani

This prestigious award is aimed at encouraging and rewarding fresh and innovative talent in the ICT and Digital Media professions. The award goes to an individual during his or her career who has demonstrated innovative and pioneering achievement and contribution to technological development in NSW. The winner is typically in "mid career" and is selected through peer judging by previous winners of the award and members of the NSW Pearcey committee.

2012 Winners

The 2012 Award presentation took place on Wednesday 17 October 2012 at the NSW Parliament Theatre 5.00pm-7.30pm with special guest the Deputy Premier, the Hon Andrew Stoner. This year there were joint winners, with the presentation being made to Jo Burston, founder of “new age” professional services firm Job Capital, as well as Mitch Harper and Eddie Machaalani, founders of e-commerce platform company BigCommerce.

2012 NSW Hall of Fame

Inducted into the Pearcey Hall of Fame and receiving special recognition awards for their entrepreneurial talents and industry contribution were (alphabetic sequence):

Aidan and David Tudehope Macquarie Telecom
Alex Brooks, Tobias Kaupp, and Alex Makarenko Marathon Targets
Bardia Housman StartupHQ and * Business Catalyst
Ben Keighran and Cathy Edwards Chomp (now part of Apple)
Dave Stevens Brennan IT
Jo Burston Job Capital, SignEzy
Luke Janssen & Oliver Palmer Tigerspike
Mitch Harper and Eddie Machaalani BigCommerce
Nick Holmes a Court Buzz Numbers
Niki Scevak Startmate, HomeThinking
Robert Yearsley CollusionApp

Full Details

For full details and photos, please see - 2012 NSW Award
Press_Release - 2012 NSW ICT and Digital Media Industries Entrepreneur of the Year

NSW Committee

Charles Lindop (Co Chair)
Phil McCrea (Co Chair)
Hamish Hawthorn
Dean Economou
Matt Barrie
Len Rust

All previous Winners participate in the judging.

For more information on the NSW Pearcey Awards please call co-chairs

Phil McCrea (0411 102 548), or
Charles Lindop (0419 224 214)

NSW Award Winners

2012 NSW Award - Mitch Harper and Eddie Machaalani, and Jo Burston
- Special Recognition: Aidan and David Tudehope, Alex Brooks, Tobias Kaupp, and Alex Makarenko, Bardia Housman, Ben Keighran and Cathy Edwards, Dave Stevens, Luke Janssen & Oliver Palmer, Nick Holmes a Court, Niki Scevak, Robert Yearsley
2011 NSW Award - Simon Poole and Steve Frisken
- Special Recognition: Colin Fabig, Dean McEvoy, Hamish Petrie, Jason Ashton, John Allsopp & Maxine Sherrin , Karaline Loiterton, Nikki Durkin, Ori Allon
2010 NSW Award - Jens and Lars Rasmussen
- Special Recognition: Christopher Mapp, Geoff McQueen, James Spenceley, Joseph Renzi, Leisl Capper, Mick Liubinskas & Phil Morle, Rob Manson & Alex Young
2009 NSW Award - Ian Gardiner
- Special Recognition: Elias Bizannes,Scott-Bradley Pearce, Robert Castaneda, Tarik Hammadou, Bart Jellema and Kim Chen, Ryan Junee, Robi Karp, Ben Keighran, Aidan Williams, Jonathon Wolfe, Anthony Woodward
2008 NSW Award - Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes
2007 NSW Award - Jeff and Pia Waugh
2006 NSW Award - Matt Barrie
- Special Recognition: Steven Hasani, Eric Heyde, Tony Bailey
2005 NSW Award - James Dalziel
- Special Recognition: Silvia Pfeiffer
2004 NSW Award - Hugh Durrant-Whyte
2003 NSW Award - Ted Dunstone
- Special Recognition: Matthew Henderson
2002 NSW Award - Alex Hartman
2001 NSW Award - Derek Renouf
2000 NSW Award - Clinton Paddison
1999 NSW Award - Scott Gazzard