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Dr Peter Gerrand

Principal, Pavana Consulting


Peter Gerrand is a company director, academic, public policy contributor and independent consultant in ICT strategy and business innovation.  His contributions have been recognized by both a Centenary Medal in 2003 “for outstanding service to science and technology particularly to public science policy”, and the ATUG Charles Todd Medal in 1998 “for outstanding contributions to the telecommunications industry”.  He is also a scholar with several recent publications on Internet cultural and linguistic diversity, and recently completing a PhD on ‘Minority languages on the Internet.  Promoting the regional languages of Spain’ (La Trobe University, 2007).
 
He was the founding Chief Executive Officer of Melbourne IT (May 1996 to September 2000), building it from scratch to a publicly listed company with over 160 employees on 3 continents.  Melbourne IT established the com.au commercial domain name registration service from November 1996, and became a global ICANN Registrar from April 1999.  He founded the Melbourne IT Incubator (1996-99) and Melbourne IT's joint venture with Ericsson, ASAC (1996-2001), which developed software-intensive products for the mobile eCommerce applications market. He was a founding director in the Melbourne IT/JTP incubator joint venture, Information City Victoria (1999-2003), which managed three business incubators in Victoria.
 
Peter Gerrand holds honorary positions at both the University of Melbourne (Professorial Fellow in telecommunications at the Melbourne School of Engineering, and also Research Fellow at the Contemporary Europe Research Centre, Faculty of Arts) and at Monash University (as Senior Research Fellow in the School of Language, Culture and Linguistics).  He has been Chairman of the Melbourne University Engineering Foundation since 2006.
 
He was Chairman of the Telecommunications Society of Australia (1993-2003) and has been Editor-in-Chief of the Telecommunications Journal of Australia since 1994. He developed the AUSTEL Interconnection Model (1995) as a special consultant to the then Australian telecommunications regulator AUSTEL; for which he was awarded the 1998 Charles Todd medal by ATUG. He is author of An Interconnection Model for Modern Telecommunications (1998) and of more than 70 refereed publications, including the influential article ‘Revisiting the Structural Separation of Telstra’ (TJA, 2004).   

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