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2007 Victorian Pearcey Award

An audience of nearly 100 ICT luminaries warmly applauded the presentation of the Victorian Pearcey Award 2007 to Ashley Herring, and Pearcey Victoria Commendations to Dr. Stan Skafidas and George Parthimos at a cocktail party in central Melbourne on 27th August 2007.

The awards were presented by Hon Tony Robinson, Minister for Consumer Affairs and Gaming, and Randall Straw, Executive Director, Multimedia Victoria, representing the Minister for Information and Communication Technology, Hon Theo Theophanous.

Ashley Herring Winner of 2007 Victorian Pearcey Award
Ashley Herring co-founded CoolRock Software in mid 2004 to commercialise software innovations for managing corporate email. Among his achievements are:

– Gaining a $700,000 AusIndustry Commercial Ready Grant to commercialise TEAL Email Management Software concept.

– Credit as co-inventor of two international patents for email management innovations

– deployment of the software to BHP Billiton as the first email archiving product capable of managing desktop encrypted email traffic.

– Securing initial trial customers of TEAL hosted email management service in the US;

– Gaining an AusIndustry Stage 1 COMET grant for commercialisation assistance.