Now Alcidion gets a mention from here. The Pearcey Foundation...

Now Alcidion gets a mention from here.

The Pearcey Foundation today announced the winner of the 2017 South Australian Pearcey Entrepreneur Award. The award was presented to Kloud Solutions co-founder Geoff Rohrsheim at an Australian Computer Society (ACS) Leaders luncheon held on Wednesday 20 September in Adelaide.

In announcing the award, Rick Harvey, Head Judge of the Pearcey Foundation, noted that Rohrsheim is an outstanding serial entrepreneur demonstrating his innovative skills not just in South Australia, but also nationally and internationally. “The Pearcey Award is more than just for success, as it is also for peer recognition by other outstanding Australian entrepreneurs who have taken a risk, made a difference and are an inspiration to others,” said Mr Harvey.

Apart from revealing the winner of the SA Pearcey Award, the ACS event highlight was a presentation from the City of Adelaide’s Chief Information Officer, Peter Auhl, on the importance of the Ten Gigabit City network. Mr Auhl was then joined by a panel of government and industry leaders to discuss the benefits of the network to the South Australian economy.

“The exciting and groundbreaking innovation of Adelaide’s Ten Gigabit City network was the perfect backdrop to the Pearcey Award announcement, and the recognition of Geoff Rohrsheim’s contributions to the local tech industry over many years,” continued Mr Harvey.

“I am delighted to be selected for this award, especially as this is a peer recognition award by so many other outstanding entrepreneurs in Australia,” said Mr Rohrsheim on accepting the Pearcey Award.

A native of Adelaide, Rohrsheim has had a typical entrepreneur’s diverse education and business experience. Commencing his career in the military, he studied Aeronautical Engineering at RMIT (ADFA) in the late 1980s followed by a Master’s degree at the University of Adelaide in the early 1990s.

After leaving the defence forces in the early 1990s Rohrsheim started his consulting career in Melbourne before returning to Adelaide where has started (and sold) several businesses including Strategic Data Management (SDM) and Kloud Solutions. His latest efforts have seen him start three new companies: exposé: Data Exposed, Hatch Creations and Cevo, as well as sustaining his eHealth interests via Chamonixa company he started with colleague Jamie Potter, and ASX-listed Alcidion – a health tech business of which he is a board member. Rohrsheim also mentors many younger entrepreneurs in all of these businesses.

Rohrsheim is actively promoting and helping South Australian business more generally as a director at Business SA, which is the chamber of commerce with 4,000 SA businesses, the Royal Automobile Association of South Australia (RAA) and RAA Insurance.

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