Network Insight Institute

Peter Gerrand

Principal, Pavana Consulting

Peter Gerrand is a company director and independent consultant in the converging industries of ICT, eCommerce and multimedia, and acts as a mentor for start-ups and SMEs in these industries. He has recently taken up the position of Executive Director of the Photonics Research Laboratory within the Australian Photonics Co-operative Research Centre.

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. Melbourne IT was cashflow positive from its inception, and has achieved an increasing profit in each of its five financial years 1996-2000. Peter founded the Melbourne IT Incubator (1996-99) and Melbourne IT's joint venture with Ericsson, ASAC21, which develops software-intensive products for the secure mobile eCommerce applications market. He was a founding participant in the Melbourne IT/JTP incubator joint venture, Information City Victoria (1999-), which manages three incubators in Victoria. He remains a director on the boards of Information City Victoria and ASAC21.

Peter is a Professorial Fellow in telecommunications at the University of Melbourne, and Chairman of the Telecommunications Society of Australia. He is author of An Interconnection Model for Modern Telecommunications (1998) and co-author of Access Pricing Principles for the Post-July 1997 Telecommunications Environment (1997). He developed the AUSTEL Interconnection Model (1995) as a special consultant to the Australian telecommunications regulator AUSTEL. He was awarded the 1998 Charles Todd medal.

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