Intersect’s founding CEO, Dr Ian Gibson, will step down from Australia’s largest research support agency in late April after six and a half years in the role. Dr Gibson is being replaced by current chief operating officer, and former Macquarie University CIO, Marc Bailey. During his tenure, Dr Gibson built the eResearch engineering and services base, securing funding for peta-scale research storage and cloud computing infrastructure to support NSW’s universities as well as the University of Canberra in the ACT. “On the back of these investments, Ian built strategic partnerships and initiatives to deliver further benefits to university members,” said Intersect chairman and Emeritus Professor, Mark Wainwright. “The new national medical data initiative, for instance, is a world first and stands to enable health and medical discoveries by sharing the dataset generated by dozens of universities, medical research institutes and state government health departments,” he said. Dr Gibson said Intersect has delivered high quality services and a strong return-on-investment consistently for members since day one. “More importantly, we have enabled many thousands of research outcomes across many disciplines. Intersect’s twelve university members collectively contribute approximately 30 per cent of Australia’s university research output and 1.5 per cent of the world’s. Intersect has made a difference,” he said. In February last year, Dr Gibson told CIO that big data was poised to drive advancements in the highly promising area of cancer genomics. He said researchers were using information from increasingly disparate sources to identify the genetic and external factors that trigger this group of potentially deadly diseases. Dr Gibson will remain involved with Intersect in a consulting role for strategic projects. Follow CIO Australia on Twitter and Like us on Facebook… Twitter: @CIO_Australia, Facebook: CIO Australia, or take part in the CIO conversation on LinkedIn: CIO Australia Follow Byron Connolly on Twitter:@ByronConnolly Related content BrandPost The future of trust—no more playing catch up Broadcom: 2023 Tech Trends That Transform IT By Eric Chien, Director of Security Response, Symantec Enterprise Division, Broadcom Mar 31, 2023 5 mins Security BrandPost TCS gives Blackhawk Network an edge with Microsoft Cloud In this case study, Blackhawk Network’s Cara Renfroe joins Tata Consultancy Services’ Rakesh Kumar and Microsoft’s Nilendu Pattanaik to explain how TCS transformed the gift card company’s customer engagement and global operati By Tata Consultancy Services Mar 31, 2023 1 min Financial Services Industry Cloud Computing IT Leadership BrandPost How TCS pioneered the ‘borderless workspace’ with Microsoft 365 Microsoft’s modern workplace solution proved a perfect fit for improving productivity and collaboration, while maintaining security of systems and data. By Tata Consultancy Services Mar 31, 2023 1 min Financial Services Industry Microsoft Cloud Computing BrandPost Supply chain decarbonization: The missing link to net zero By improving the quality of global supply chain data, enterprises can better measure their true carbon footprint and make progress toward a net-zero business ecosystem. By Tata Consultancy Services Mar 31, 2023 2 mins Retail Industry Supply Chain Green IT Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe