[ { "post_id": "483", "post_category_id": "17", "post_title": "2025 SA Award", "post_content_short": "The 2025 SA Pearcey Entrepreneur of the Year Award recipient is Tim Stollznow<\/strong>. Tim is founder and CEO of MyVenue,\nspecialising in point-of-sale solutions for major sports and entertainment venues across Australia and North America.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/483\/tim-stollznow.png", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/sa\/2025-sa-award\/", "post_date": "2025-11-11 02:00:00" }, { "post_id": "479", "post_category_id": "9", "post_title": "2025 Tasmanian Award", "post_content_short": "Roxane Bandini-Maeder<\/strong>, CEO and co-founder of climate tech startup Geoneon<\/a>, was\nawarded the 2025 Tasmania Pearcey Entrepreneur of the Year at the Enterprize<\/a> Tasmania Demo Day\nin Hobart.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/479\/RoxaneplusBandini-Maeder.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/tas\/2025-tas-award\/", "post_date": "2025-10-29 13:00:00" }, { "post_id": "482", "post_category_id": "16", "post_title": "2025 Qld Award", "post_content_short": "Dr Clarissa Yates<\/strong>, biotechnology innovator and co-founder and CEO of Ketim\nTechnologies<\/u><\/a>\nwas awarded 2025 Queensland Pearcey ICT Entrepreneur Award at a gala dinner held in Brisbane on 23 October 2025.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/482\/clarissa-yates.webp", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/qld\/2025-qld-award\/", "post_date": "2025-10-16 09:00:00" }, { "post_id": "481", "post_category_id": "15", "post_title": "2025 NSW Award", "post_content_short": "The 2025 NSW Pearcey Entrepreneur of the Year Award recipient is "robot nerd turned drone lover turned CEO\/cofounder" (in his\n\twords) Rory San Miguel<\/strong>. The award was presented at a special Pearcey Foundation event on Tuesday 14 October in Sydney by Emma\n\tWeston<\/a>,\n\tthe 2023 NSW award recipient.\n", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/481\/rory-san-miguel.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/nsw\/2025-nsw-award\/", "post_date": "2025-10-14 06:00:00" }, { "post_id": "480", "post_category_id": "10", "post_title": "2025 ACT Award", "post_content_short": "Professor Lachlan Blackhall<\/strong>, Founding Professor of the Battery Storage and Grid Integration Program at the Australian\nNational University and previously co-founder of Reposit Power, is the recipient of the 2025 ACT Chief Minister's Pearcey\nAward. The award was presented by ACT Chief Minister, Andrew Barr at the 2025 Pearcey Round Table in Canberra on Thursday, 2\nOctober 2025.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/480\/Prof-Lachlan-Blackhall.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/act\/2025-act-award\/", "post_date": "2025-10-02 10:00:00" }, { "post_id": "477", "post_category_id": "14", "post_title": "2025 Victorian Pearcey Entrepreneur Award", "post_content_short": "The 2025 Victorian Pearcey Entrepreneur Award presented to Sam Kroonenburg<\/strong>, co-founder and CEO of A Cloud Guru, co-founder\nand co-CEO of Cuttable. Award was presented at a special dinner in Melbourne, by Professor Eduard Hovy, Executive Director of Melbourne\nConnect at the University of Melbourne. This was the flagship event of the Melbourne Connect Innovation Week.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/477\/Pearcey2025-62.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/vic\/2025-vic-award\/", "post_date": "2025-09-07 14:00:00" }, { "post_id": "474", "post_category_id": "19", "post_title": "2025 WA Award", "post_content_short": "The 2025 WA Pearcey Entrepreneur Award was presented to Chris Morrissey<\/strong>, founder and CEO of Ever Nimble, at the 34th<\/sup> WAITTA Incite Awards in Perth on Friday 18th<\/sup> July 2025.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/474\/RickplusChris-Morrissey-2.png", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/wa\/2025-wa-award\/", "post_date": "2025-07-18 12:00:00" }, { "post_id": "464", "post_category_id": "16", "post_title": "2024 Qld Award", "post_content_short": "The Queensland Pearcey Entrepreneur for 2024 was presented to Andrew Bate<\/strong>, co-founder and CEO of Swarm Farm Robotics.\nThe presentation was part of the Pearcey Foundation's National Event Gala Dinner on Tuesday 19th November 2024 in Brisbane.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/464\/andrew-bate.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/qld\/2024-qld-award\/", "post_date": "2024-11-19 09:00:00" }, { "post_id": "462", "post_category_id": "15", "post_title": "2024 NSW Award", "post_content_short": "At a special Pearcey Foundation awards night in Sydney on Thursday 7 November 2024, Prof Michael J. Biercuk PhD<\/strong>, CEO and founder of Q-CTRL, was announced as the recipient of the 2024 NSW Pearcey Entrepreneur of the Year Award.  Professor Biercuk\nis a global science and technology innovator building the greenfield quantum technology industry.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/462\/prof-michael-biercuk.png", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/nsw\/2024-nsw-award\/", "post_date": "2024-11-06 09:00:00" }, { "post_id": "463", "post_category_id": "10", "post_title": "2024 ACT Award", "post_content_short": "The founders of CEA Technologies, Ian Croser<\/strong> and David Gaul<\/strong>, were the recipients of the 2024 ACT Chief\nMinister’s Pearcey Award. The award was presented at a special Pearcey event in Canberra on the 25th of September 2024 by the ACT Chief\nMinister, Andrew Barr.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/463\/david-gaul-ian-croser-.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/act\/2024-act-award\/", "post_date": "2024-09-24 10:00:00" }, { "post_id": "459", "post_category_id": "85", "post_title": "2024 Victorian Pearcey Entrepreneur Award", "post_content_short": "The 2024 Victorian Pearcey Entrepreneur Award presented to Chris Piastri<\/strong>, co-founder and CTO of HP Tuners. Award was presented at a special dinner in Melbourne, by Professor Eduard Hovy, Executive Director of Melbourne Connect at the University of\nMelbourne. This was the flagship event of the Melbourne Connect Innovation Week.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/459\/Pearcey2024Vic-1515.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/vic\/2024-vic-award\/", "post_date": "2024-09-05 14:00:00" }, { "post_id": "465", "post_category_id": "19", "post_title": "2024 WA Award", "post_content_short": "Peter van der Made<\/strong>, founder and CTO of Brainchip Inc was announced as the 2024 WA Pearcey Entrepreneur Awardee at the\n33rd WAITTA Incite Awards in Perth on 19th July 2024. ", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/465\/peter-van-der-made.png", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/wa\/2024-wa-award\/", "post_date": "2024-07-19 10:00:00" }, { "post_id": "447", "post_category_id": "9", "post_title": "2023 Tasmania Award", "post_content_short": "The 2023 Tasmanian Pearcey State Entrepreneurship Award was presented to Damian Ivereigh<\/strong>, founder and Chief Network\n\tArchitect of Tasmania-based ISP Launtel. The presentation was made by Tasmanian Minister for Small Business and Science and Technology, the\n\tHon Madeleine Ogilvie at the TasICT Conference Gala Dinner tonight at the C3 Convention Centre in Hobart on the evening of Friday 10th<\/sup>\n\tNovember.\n", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/447\/damian-ivereigh.png", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/tas\/2023-tas-award\/", "post_date": "2023-11-10 10:00:00" }, { "post_id": "448", "post_category_id": "16", "post_title": "2023 Qld Award", "post_content_short": "Brisbane, Australia – 18 October 2023 –<\/strong> The Pearcey Foundation<\/u><\/a> today\n\tannounced Yas Grigaliunas<\/u><\/a>, founder and chief evangelist of Circonomy<\/u><\/a>,\n\tas the recipient of the 2023 Queensland ICT Entrepreneur of the Year Award. The Pearcey Foundation also gave a highly commended award to Geoff\n\tAugutis<\/u><\/a>.\n", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/448\/298043599.jpg.jpeg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/qld\/2023-qld-award\/", "post_date": "2023-10-18 09:00:00" }, { "post_id": "430", "post_category_id": "10", "post_title": "2023 ACT Pearcey Award", "post_content_short": "At a special Pearcey Foundation roundtable event, Marcus\n\tDawe<\/a><\/strong>\n\twas awarded the ACT Chief Minister’s Pearcey Entrepreneur Award by the ACT Chief Minister, Andrew Barr. Marcus is CEO of MCi Carbon, a\n\tclean energy scale-up that started in Canberra 17 years ago. Marcus has mentored many rising entrepreneurs over last 10 years. This year,\n\tthe Pearcey Foundation is pleased to announce him as the 2023 ACT Chief Minister’s Pearcey Entrepreneur for his involvement in MCi Carbon.\n", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/430\/PearceyAwardPresentation.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/act\/2023-act-award\/", "post_date": "2023-10-17 08:00:00" }, { "post_id": "425", "post_category_id": "15", "post_title": "2023 NSW Award", "post_content_short": "The 2023 Pearcey Entrepreneur of the Year award for NSW was presented to Emma\nWeston<\/a>,\nco-founder and CEO of AgriDigital, on 4 October at ASX. The award was presented by Wayne\nFitzsimmons<\/a>, OAM. Under Emma's leadership, AgriDigital has become a pioneering force in digitalising global agricultural supply chains, connecting\nfarmers directly to consumers.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/425\/ASX_Pearceyawards-181.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/nsw\/2023-nsw-award\/", "post_date": "2023-10-04 06:30:00" }, { "post_id": "455", "post_category_id": "77", "post_title": "2023 VIC Pearcey Award", "post_content_short": "The 2023 Victorian Pearcey Entrepreneur Award presented to Didier Elzinga<\/strong>, founder and CEO of Culture Amp. Award was\n\tpresented at a special dinner in Melbourne, by the Honourable Ben Carroll MP, Minister for Industry & Innovation, State Government of\n\tVictoria. A flagship event of the Victorian Digital Innovation Festival and of the Melbourne Connect Innovation Week\n", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/455\/Web-Page-Didier-and-Jordan-1080x1001.png", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/vic\/2023-vic-award\/", "post_date": "2023-09-30 09:43:00" }, { "post_id": "461", "post_category_id": "19", "post_title": "2023 WA Award", "post_content_short": "The 2023 WA Pearcey Entrepreneur Award was presented to Pia Turcinov AM<\/strong>, Director FundWA, at the 32nd WAITTA Incite Awards,\nWestin Perth, Friday 11 August 2023.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/461\/WA-Enrepreneur-2023-2.png", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/wa\/2023-wa-award\/", "post_date": "2023-08-11 10:00:00" }, { "post_id": "400", "post_category_id": "9", "post_title": "2022 Tas Award", "post_content_short": "The Tasmanian Pearcey Entrepreneur for 2022 was presented to Andrew Davies, founder and CEO of Taz Drone Solutions, by Hon Madeleine Ogilvie\nMP, Minister for Science and Technology. The presentation was part of the Pearcey Foundation's National Event at the TasICT Conference Gala\nDinner on the evening of Friday November 11th<\/sup> at the C3 Convention Center in Hobart.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/400\/andrew-davies.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/tas\/2022-tas-award\/", "post_date": "2022-11-11 08:00:00" }, { "post_id": "399", "post_category_id": "17", "post_title": "2022 SA Award", "post_content_short": "The 2022 SA Pearcey Entrepreneur was presented to Flavia Tata Nadini<\/strong>, CEO and Co-Founder, Fleet Space Technologies. The presentation was made by Mohann Koo at a special event at the Stone and Chalk Startup and Scaleup Hub.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/399\/Flavia-Tata-Nardini.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/sa\/2022-sa-award\/", "post_date": "2022-11-04 04:00:00" }, { "post_id": "397", "post_category_id": "15", "post_title": "2022 NSW Award", "post_content_short": "The 2022 NSW Pearcey Entrepreneur of the Year award was presented to Dr. Mark\nEnglund<\/a> of FiberSense, by David Thodey<\/a>, AO, on October 31 at the Sydney Startup Hub. Founded in 2015, FiberSense provides SONAR like sensing capabilities over optical fiber telecoms cables, providing awareness of objects and events near the fibre cable infrastructure. The service is being taken up by the world’s most valuable companies including Amazon, Google and Meta..", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/397\/David-Thodey+Mark-Englund.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/nsw\/2022-nsw-award\/", "post_date": "2022-10-31 07:00:00" }, { "post_id": "398", "post_category_id": "16", "post_title": "2022 Qld Award", "post_content_short": "The 2022 Queensland Pearcey Entrepreneur Award was presented jointly to Rebecca McDonald, founder and CEO of Library\nfor All<\/a>, and Sarah-Jane Peterschlingmann, managing director and owner of ATech<\/a>. The awards were presented in\nBrisbane by Jill Martin, Director of Start Up & Scale Up Programs, Department of Tourism, Innovation and Sport at an event hosted by Monica\nBradley<\/a>.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/398\/SJPeterschlingmann-and-RMcDonald.jpeg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/qld\/2022-qld-award\/", "post_date": "2022-10-18 09:00:00" }, { "post_id": "396", "post_category_id": "10", "post_title": "2022 ACT Pearcey Award", "post_content_short": "At a special Round Table event, the Chief Minister, with former Senator Kate Lundy announced the winners of the ACT Chief Minister\nPearcey Award were Adam Zegelin<\/strong> and Ben Bromhead<\/strong>, the technical inspiration behind Instaclustr. <\/a>Instaclustr\nhelps organisations deliver applications at scale by operating and supporting their data infrastructure through its SaaS platform for open\nsource technologies.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/396\/Adam-ZegelinplusBen-Bromhead.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/act\/2022-act-award\/", "post_date": "2022-10-17 07:00:00" }, { "post_id": "392", "post_category_id": "18", "post_title": "2022 Vic Pearcey Award", "post_content_short": "The 2022 Victorian Pearcey Entrepreneur Award was presented to Jason Lohrey<\/strong>, founder and CEO\/CTO of Arcitecta<\/a>.\n\tThe award was presented at a special dinner in Melbourne by Kathy Coultas, Director of Technology & Innovation, Department of Economic\n\tDevelopment, State Government of Victoria.\n", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/392\/Jason-Lohrey.png", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/vic\/2022-vic-award\/", "post_date": "2022-09-21 10:00:00" }, { "post_id": "388", "post_category_id": "19", "post_title": "2022 WA Award", "post_content_short": "The 2022 WA Pearcey Entrepreneur Award recipient is Mahmood Hussein<\/strong>, Founder and CEO Global Drone Solutions (GDS). The\nPearcey Award was part of the 31st WAITTA Incite Awards on Friday 12 August 2022.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/388\/mahmood-hussein.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/wa\/2022-wa-award\/", "post_date": "2022-08-12 10:00:00" } ]