South Australia Awards

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2011 South Australia Pearcey Entrepreneur Award

The 2011 SA Pearcey Entrepreneur Award was presented to Matthew Michalewicz at a reception held at InnovateSA Board Room (19 Greenfell Street Adelaide) on Thursday evening, 17 November 2011. Matthew, Founder and CEO of SolveIT, has pioneered the development of cutting-edge technology to solve complex business problems. He is a person who has demonstrated that he is not only capable of taking risks in starting up and running innovative software companies which have made a significant difference to business but also serves as an inspiration to others to achieve great outcomes.

The 2011 South Australian Pearcey Award winner was selected from the following outstanding candidates:

Dr Henry Detmold – currently Research Leader at Univ of Adelaide’s Centre for Visual Technologies and Founder and CTO of Snap Network Surveillance Pty Ltd
Stephen Dunn – invented and patented a prize winning web based check-in system for hotels and allied applications. Currently commercialising concept after winning a Commercialisation Australia grant
Mark Fortunatow – co-founder and CEO of publically listed (ASX) MGM Wireless Pty Ltd, a leading provider of school attendance management and social messaging software
Matthew Michalewicz – serial entrepreneur and co-founder of SolveIT Software specialising in advanced planning & scheduling, supply chain network optimisation, demand optimisation and predictive modelling application software
Tod Pedlar – serial start up entrepreneur focussed on content management and mobile technologies with latest being Mobile Nation – a mobile publishing platform
Clint Walker – serial entrepreneur, built visual effects company in Adelaide and sold it in Hollywood (USA) and is now rolling the dice again in Silicon Valley with Run with Robots, a software development platform for on-line games running across the web and mobile devices - all developed in Adelaide