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Announcement: New eResearch SA Director

New eResearch SA Director

I am delighted to announce that Mary Hobson has accepted the position of Director, eResearch SA.

eResearch SA was formed in 2007 through a joint venture of the University of Adelaide, University of South Australia and Flinders University as successor to the South Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (SAPAC).

In recruiting eResearch SA’s first full-time Director, the Board sought a candidate with the right mix of research, technical and business skills, and experience to drive new research outcomes in South Australia through the use of advanced information technology and research data management.

After studying marketing in the early 70s, Mary became a programmer in the British Ministry of Defence, she worked as a systems analyst in her own software house and then taught programming, systems analysis and management information systems at a college of Higher Education in Britain. During this time she took a Masters degree in Computer Science at the University of East Anglia.

During the early 90s Mary led a British Government funded aid project in the USSR to create an innovation centre and help access western markets for Russian research in microelectronics and associated sciences. After the project concluded she went on to do a technology transfer consultancy in Russia and created and ran a start-up company with Russian microelectronic engineers, selling integrated circuit design capacity to the west. In 2005 Mary moved to New Zealand, where she has worked in senior positions in the Polytechnic sector.

Mary will begin work at eResearch SA in early August 2010.

I would like to thank James Tizard, CEO of SABRENet Ltd, who has acted as part-time interim Director since early 2009.

Emeritus Professor Max Brennan, AO
Chair, eResearch SA