User:MaryGaulke/sandbox/Adrian Di Marco requests

Hi! I'm a COI editor for TechnologyOne, a client of GRACosway, which is a sister agency of my employer, Porter Novelli. I have some edit requests for this article. (I've also created a mockup of what the article would look like with all the additions highlighted.)

Early life and education
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 * Di Marco was born in Brisbane in 1958, the child of Italian immigrants. He attended St James College in Brisbane.


 * He became interested in IT after helping his brother, who was studying engineering at university, to program one of the first digital computers. After high school, Di Marco completed a science degree at the University of Queensland, majoring in computer science. Early in his career, he worked at Arthur Andersen (now Accenture).

Career
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TechnologyOne CEO

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 * The company began providing financial software, building its products around relational databases. It has since developed enterprise resource planning software for sectors including local government, universities, and hospitals.


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 * When he stepped down as CEO in May 2017, Di Marco was one of the longest-serving chief executives of an ASX-listed company.


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 * As CEO, Di Marco established the philanthropic TechnologyOne Foundation, which has made donations to Opportunity International Australia, the School of St Jude in Tanzania, The Fred Hollows Foundation, and others. He also advocated for and adopted a "leadership" model for running a business, as opposed to a "management" model run by professional managers, which he tried during a period of rapid expansion and led to difficulties including missed deadlines and loss of talent. He has argued that a focus on corporate governance weakens companies and that having a board that understands business and innovation is more important than having independent directors.

Post-CEO
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 * Di Marco is a founding member of Software Queensland, a group promoting the Queensland software industry. In February 2022, he announced he would be stepping down as TechnologyOne's executive chairman after 35 years with the company, with his resignation effective on 30 June.