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 opinion Website spoofing: risks, threats, and mitigation strategies for CIOs In this article, we take a look at how CIOs can tackle website spoofing attacks and the best ways to prevent them. By Yash Mehta Dec 01, 2023 5 mins CIO Cyberattacks Security brandpost Sponsored by Catchpoint Systems Inc. Gain full visibility across the Internet Stack with IPM (Internet Performance Monitoring) Today’s IT systems have more points of failure than ever before. Internet Performance Monitoring provides visibility over external networks and services to mitigate outages. By Neal Weinberg Dec 01, 2023 3 mins IT Operations brandpost Sponsored by Zscaler How customers can save money during periods of economic uncertainty Now is the time to overcome the challenges of perimeter-based architectures and reduce costs with zero trust. By Zscaler Dec 01, 2023 4 mins Security feature LexisNexis rises to the generative AI challenge With generative AI, the legal information services giant faces its most formidable disruptor yet. That’s why CTO Jeff Reihl is embracing and enhancing the technology swiftly to keep in front of the competition. By Paula Rooney Dec 01, 2023 6 mins Generative AI Digital Transformation Cloud Computing 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