480 10 Professor Lachlan Blackhall, Founding Professor of the Battery Storage and Grid Integration Program at the Australian National University and previously co-founder of Reposit Power, is the recipient of the 2025 ACT Chief Minister's Pearcey Award. The award was presented by ACT Chief Minister, Andrew Barr at the 2025 Pearcey Round Table in Canberra on Thursday, 2 October 2025.]]> https://www.pearcey.org.au/media/website_posts/480/Prof-Lachlan-Blackhall.jpg page https://www.pearcey.org.au/awards/state/act/2025-act-award/ 2025-10-02 10:00:00 463 10 Ian Croser and David Gaul, were the recipients of the 2024 ACT Chief Minister’s Pearcey Award. The award was presented at a special Pearcey event in Canberra on the 25th of September 2024 by the ACT Chief Minister, Andrew Barr.]]> https://www.pearcey.org.au/media/website_posts/463/david-gaul-ian-croser-.jpg page https://www.pearcey.org.au/awards/state/act/2024-act-award/ 2024-09-24 10:00:00 430 10 Marcus Dawe was awarded the ACT Chief Minister’s Pearcey Entrepreneur Award by the ACT Chief Minister, Andrew Barr. Marcus is CEO of MCi Carbon, a clean energy scale-up that started in Canberra 17 years ago. Marcus has mentored many rising entrepreneurs over last 10 years. This year, the Pearcey Foundation is pleased to announce him as the 2023 ACT Chief Minister’s Pearcey Entrepreneur for his involvement in MCi Carbon. ]]> https://www.pearcey.org.au/media/website_posts/430/PearceyAwardPresentation.jpg page https://www.pearcey.org.au/awards/state/act/2023-act-award/ 2023-10-17 08:00:00 396 10 Adam Zegelin and Ben Bromhead, the technical inspiration behind Instaclustr. Instaclustr helps organisations deliver applications at scale by operating and supporting their data infrastructure through its SaaS platform for open source technologies.]]> https://www.pearcey.org.au/media/website_posts/396/Adam-ZegelinplusBen-Bromhead.jpg page https://www.pearcey.org.au/awards/state/act/2022-act-award/ 2022-10-17 07:00:00 122 10 Pearcey Foundation today announced Daniel Shaddock, founder and CEO of Liquid Instruments as this year's recipient of the ACT Chief Minister's Pearcey Entrepreneur Award. The award was presented by Andrew Barr, ACT Chief Minister at the Annual ACT Pearcey Round Table (held virtually this year).]]> https://www.pearcey.org.au/media/website_posts/122/Prof-Daniel-Shaddock.jpg page https://www.pearcey.org.au/awards/state/act/2021-act-award/ 2021-09-28 07:33:00 25 10 Shane Hill, founder of Skoolbo as this year's recipient of the ACT Chief Minister's Pearcey Entrepreneur Award. The award was presented by Senator (retd) Kate Lundy representing the ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr at the Pearcey Round Table 2020 event in Canberra.]]> https://www.pearcey.org.au/media/website_posts/25/ResizedImage300225-Shane-Hill-Kate-Lundy-fmr-Senator.jpg page https://www.pearcey.org.au/awards/state/act/2020-act-award/ 2020-09-22 13:32:00 26 10 Pearcey Foundation today announced Matthew Wilson, CEO of Penten as this year's recipient of the 2019 ACT Chief Minister's Pearcey Entrepreneur Award. The award was presented by Senator (retd) Kate Lundy representing the ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr at the Pearcey Round Table 2019.]]> https://www.pearcey.org.au/media/website_posts/26/Matthew-Wilson.jpg page https://www.pearcey.org.au/awards/state/act/2019-act-award/ 2019-10-10 13:35:00 27 10 th Annual Conference on 4 September 2018.]]> https://www.pearcey.org.au/media/website_posts/27/Ken-Kroeger.jpg page https://www.pearcey.org.au/awards/state/act/2018-act-award/ 2018-09-04 13:40:00 121 10 presented by the Chief Minister, the Hon. Andrew Barr MLA. to joint winners as the judges could not distinguish between two highly qualified contributors to ACT's burgeoning ICT industry. The 2017 ACT winners were Phillip Williamson co-founder and Chief Innovator at Intelledox and Mark Riley, co-founder and CTO of ContentKeeper.]]> https://www.pearcey.org.au/media/website_posts/121/ACT-2017-Winners.jpg page https://www.pearcey.org.au/awards/state/act/2017-act-award/ 2017-08-15 13:15:00 123 10 https://www.pearcey.org.au/media/website_posts/123/Dean-Spaccavento.jpg page https://www.pearcey.org.au/awards/state/act/2016-act-award/ 2016-06-28 07:37:00 124 10 https://www.pearcey.org.au/media/website_posts/124/Greg-Boorer-ACT-2015.jpg page https://www.pearcey.org.au/awards/state/act/2015-act-award/ 2015-06-23 07:43:00 125 10 John de Margheriti.]]> https://www.pearcey.org.au/media/website_posts/125/John_DeMargheriti_pic.jpg page https://www.pearcey.org.au/awards/state/act/2013-2014-act-award/ 2013-06-17 13:00:00 126 10 Dr Vikram Sharma on Thursday evening 15th November at the Boat House by the Lake as part of the ACS ACT Branch annual Canberra ICT Awards night.]]> page https://www.pearcey.org.au/awards/state/act/2012-act-award/ 2012-11-15 12:15:00 127 10 Matt Bullock by Senator Kate Lundy, Senator representing the ACT and Parliamentary Secretary Prime Minister and Cabinet, as part of the annual combined ACS and Pearcey Foundation Awards held this evening at ‘The Boathouse’ in Canberra.]]> page https://www.pearcey.org.au/awards/state/act/2011-act-award/ 2011-09-15 13:00:00 128 10 Dr Raymond Choo was presented the 2010 ACT Pearcey Award by Senator Kate Lundy, Parliamentary Secretary to Prime Minister & Cabinet, at a gala dinner held at 'The Boathouse' in Canberra on 16 September 2010.]]> https://www.pearcey.org.au/media/website_posts/128/Raymond-Choo-1.jpg page https://www.pearcey.org.au/awards/state/act/2010-act-award/ 2010-09-16 13:15:00 129 10 Mr Michael McGoogan on Wednesday 16th September 2009 in Canberra at the Canberra Business Events Centre, Regatta Point. The award was presented by Mr Jon Stanhope MLA, Chief Minister for the ACT during the Business in Focus Month and jointly sponsored with the Australian Computer Society, ACT Branch.]]> page https://www.pearcey.org.au/awards/state/act/2009-act-award/ 2009-09-16 13:15:00 130 10 Mathew Purcell by ACT Chief Minsiter, the Hon Mr Jon Stanhope, at the Regatta Point Business Centre in Canberra. The Canberra Branch of the Australian Computer Society joined forces with the Pearcey Foundation to select Matthew Purcell alias "The Silicon Kid", as the winner. Thanks to strong financial support from the ACT Government, the Pearcey foundation has been able to extend its highly competitive peer recognition award process to ICT professionals in the ACT.]]> page https://www.pearcey.org.au/awards/state/act/2008-act-award/ 2008-09-02 13:15:00