The 2021 Pearcey National Awards and South Australia Entrepreneur Award completed
The Pearcey Foundation awards program for 2021 is now complete. On the 15 November 2021, the Pearcey Foundation announced that the 2021 South Australian Pearcey Entrepreneur of the Year was Mohan Koo, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of world leading cybersecurity provider DTEX Systems.
Then on Wednesday 24 November the Foundation presented the Pearcey National awards in a multi-state Zoom link-up. In Adelaide the Premier of South Australia, the Hon Steven Marshall, awarded both the 2021 South Australia Entrepreneur Award as well as the 2021 National Entrepreneur of the year Award to Mohan Koo during a break in a conference he was attending in Adelaide. The six winners of the respective State Entrepreneur Awards were all present on a nation wide linkup to hear the announcement.
Concurrently in Sydney, the Chairman of the Pearcey Foundation, Wayne Fitzsimmons, presented the 2021 Pearcey Medal to David Thodey AO, as well announcing the 2021 Hall of Fame recipients - Alan Noble in Adelaide and Judy Hammond in Sydney. Alan received his Hall of Fame certificate from the Premier of South Australia alongside Mohan Moo receiving his National Entrepreneur Award. Judy Hammonds award was a virtual presentation over Zoom.
Full details on the awards are shown on their respective pages on this website
Coming events
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24 Feb 2022 |
'Riding the Digital Wave Summit' - celebrating 70 years since Australia's first Computer Conference |
In person at Syd Uni…all being well Omicron fades away quickly!! |
More details on all forthcoming events are available on our Pearcey Heritage website heritage.pearcey.org.au.
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2021 SA Award
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