Hon Mal Bryce AO Travels from WA
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Hon Mal Bryce AO's Biography
Mal Bryce’s professional roles in
the last 30 years have included cabinet minister, company director, corporate
manager, management consultant and project leader.
During the 1980s Mal established
Australia's most successful technology park at Bentley in Western Australia,
the Western Australian Small Business Development Corporation, the Western
Australian SciTech Discovery Centre, Australia's first government department of
computing and information technology, the Institute for Science and Technology
Policy, the Chair of Biotechnology at Murdoch University, and the public policy
that revolutionised Regional Development in WA.
Throughout the 1990s Mal Bryce
was a leading Australian pioneer in the development of the Internet industry
and the application of the Internet to business, government agencies and
communities. He was the architect of Australia's first online community in
Ipswich, Queensland, and he led the team that implemented Australia's first
community driven e-commerce project. His book on this subject - titled Switched
On and published in 2010 - is a major case study in innovation and regional
economic development. He was also the Director of the project team which
established a new contemporary campus of the University of Queensland in
Ipswich.
He is a former Deputy Premier of
Western Australia, Director of Bank West, Executive Chairman of the Australian
Centre for Innovation and International Competitiveness (Sydney),
Chairman/Director of six science and technology companies in Australia and the
USA, a Member of the Prime Minister's Science and Engineering Council, a
Management Consultant with Deloitte Ross Tohmatsu, the Foundation Co-Chairman
of the Australian Greenhouse Information Service (Melbourne), Chairman of the
Western Australian Technology and Industry Advisory Council and a Director of
Yilgarn Infrastructure Ltd.
He is a Senior Associate of the
Australian Centre for Innovation, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at Curtin
University, a member of the Australian eResearch Infrastructure Council, and
admitted as a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company
Directors in 1990.
As Chairman of the iVEC Joint
Venture from 2003 to 2013 and Chair of the Pawsey Project Steering Group, Mal
led the team which has developed a world class petaflop scale supercomputing
centre in Perth to service the needs of radio astronomy, geoscience and
nanotechnology research.
In August 2012 Mal was awarded the
Pearcey National Medal and admitted to the Australian ICT Industry Hall of Fame
in recognition of a distinguished lifetime contribution to the development and
growth of the Australian information and communications technology industry.
Mal's passion for innovation
provides inspiration for business leaders, start-up entrepreneurs, students of
management and managers of government agencies.