Adrian Di Marco


Adrian Di Marco is an Australian entrepreneur and businessman. He is the founder and Executive chairman of TechnologyOne, Australia's largest enterprise software company.

Career

Di Marco founded TechnologyOne at the front of a hide processing plant in 1987 with a small amount of capital provided by JL Mactaggart Industries, and in December 1999 he led the company into its listing on the ASX making it one of the most successful floats of the DotCom era.
Under Di Marco's leadership TechnologyOne has built a global software platform having expanded into New Zealand, Asia, South Pacific and the United Kingdom. TechnologyOne is now developing one of the largest Software as a service platforms in the Australasian region, delivering large scale enterprise software as a service.
In January 2016 Di Marco announced that he was planning to resign in the next year or two, and in April 2017 he announced that on 23 May, when the company released its half-year results, he would step down as CEO and that the COO, Edward Chung, would take over. Di Marco remained as executive chairman and chief innovation officer.
In 2017, Di Marco invested in accounting software start-up Practice Ignition. In 2018, Di Marco made a $3.2 million investment in sports tech firm Fusion Sport. In 2019, Di Marco made a $500,000 investment with Snackwise.

Community involvement

Di Marco is a founding member of Software Queensland.
He is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Di Marco is also a former director of the Royal Children's Hospital Foundation Board, which he served for eight years, from 2004 to 2012.

Awards

In 2004 Di Marco won the Pearcey Award for innovative and pioneering achievement and contribution to research and development in IT.
Di Marco has been awarded Fellow of the Australian Computer Society in 2010.
Di Marco was inducted into the Pearcey Hall of Fame in 2015.