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Mr Ric Clark, Chief Operating Officer
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Mr Ric Clark, Chief Operating Officer
Biography
Mr Ric Clark is NICTA's Chief Operating Officer.He is responsible for NICTA's operations with a particular focus on commercialisation and intellectual property activities, and leads its industry development and outreach program.One of NICTA's key missions is to fund, create, and commercialise intellectual property to enable the benefits of its research to flow to the Australian community.
NICTA will act as a catalyst to encourage its staff as well as industry and other research institutions to interact and undertake ICT commercialisation to increase Australia's economic standing, and derive income for the local ICT industry and the centre.Pivotal to these efforts is building strong networks with the Australian ICT industry and research community and other 'vertical' industries where ICT is a key enabler.
Mr Clark joins NICTA from Ericsson where he was Managing Director of its Research and Development company, Ericsson Asia Pacific Lab Australia.He has acted as a Director on several ICT start-ups.
He is an active contributor to university syllabus and industry development and has been involved in various advisory groups with State and Federal Government, including the Victorian Comtechport Technical Users Group, Chipskills, the Victorian State Government ICT Advisory Group, the Federal Electronic Action Agenda Committee and Framework for ICT Future Steering Group.Mr Clark is a member of National Innovation Council, the Tax Concession Committee of the Commonwealth IR&D Board, and the Electronic Industry Action Agenda Advocacy Group.