This Month
Stop the presses for TechnologyOne’s Di Marco
Di Marco was one of the few business names to feature in the Australia Day awards this year, and his marketing division was keen to ensure everyone knew.
- Hannah Wootton
December 2022
- Exclusive
- Funding
A pivot from retail to aged care helped this start-up raise $10m
The company behind emoji-based customer experience surveys, Zipline, is now focused on compliance in the healthcare sector, and it has banked funding from some leading VCs and founders.
- Yolanda Redrup
February 2022
TechnologyOne’s Adrian Di Marco steps down after 35 years
Adrian Di Marco is closing the book on his 35 years with TechnologyOne, stepping down as executive chairman in June.
- Yolanda Redrup
Adrian Di Marco made the most of proxy reforms
TechnologyOne provided investors with a vivid demonstration of just what Josh Frydenberg’s mercifully short-lived proxy regime emboldened.
- Myriam Robin
December 2021
TechOne $5.2m bullying claim set for retrial
The High Court has dismissed an appeal in a bitter four-year, $5.2 million bullying and unfair dismissal claim against software company TechnologyOne and founder Adrian Di Marco.
- Patrick Durkin
September 2021
TechOne faces High Court challenge over bullying, dismissal claims
The High Court appeal would seek to overturn a full Federal Court decision to send an earlier finding against TechOne to retrial.
- Hannah Wootton
August 2021
TechOne’s record $5.2m court loss sent to retrial
The decision, which TechOne told the ASX was “pleasing”, further drags out a long-running employment law dispute.
- Hannah Wootton
July 2021
Meet the Rich Bosses who don’t have a boss
As tech and mining stocks boom, the number of executive chairmen on the Rich Bosses list is growing – even if the role still creates governance concerns.
- James Thomson
June 2021
‘No basis’ for $5.2m industrial relations ruling, TechOne tells court
The software company and its vocal founder Adrian Di Marco are calling for a retrial of an employment law case that has them on the hook for $5.2 million in damages.
- Hannah Wootton
- Opinion
- Governance
Proxy advice excesses will haunt the future of public markets
“One size fits all” checklists and robo-voting by institutions will hinder investment when there is a new industrial revolution coming.
- Adrian Di Marco
May 2021
Adrian Di Marco has chutzpah to accuse others of ‘arrogance’
It was only last October that the Federal Court awarded $5.4 million to a dismissed TechnologyOne executive who accused the company of unfair dismissal.
- Myriam Robin
Proxy changes spark new super war
Company directors praised new regulation for proxy advisers. But advisers say the rules are unwarranted. “We shouldn’t be using the Treasurer’s office to regulate against the hurt feelings of company directors.”
- Updated
- Hannah Wootton and Yolanda Redrup
April 2021
Adrian Di Marco not a huge fan of negative feedback
In an ostensibly free country, how could anyone solemnly advocate for government control over an opinion?
- Joe Aston
- Exclusive
- Governance
Software company founder declares war on ‘toxic’ proxy firms
TechnologyOne founder and chairman Adrian Di Marco says influential proxy firms that advise shareholders on how to vote are an unelected and unaccountable scourge on corporate Australia.
- Patrick Durkin
October 2020
TechnologyOne's Di Marco slammed in record $5.2m payout
TechnologyOne founder and chairman Adrian Di Marco was 'deceptive and self-serving' and stood 'with the bullies rather than the bullied', according to a Federal Court judge.
- Hannah Wootton and Yolanda Redrup
November 2019
TechnologyOne's shift to SaaS continues to pay off
TechnologyOne grew revenue by 13 per cent to $286 million while its net profit before tax was up 50 per cent to $76.4 million.
- Updated
- Yolanda Redrup
TechnologyOne and Brisbane council bury the hatchet
Adrian Di Marco can dig in for a long fight, but is that $50m spat now all kissed and made up?
- Liam Walsh
October 2019
Adrian Di Marco lets it rip for WiseTech
If spreading empathy for WiseTech's Richard White is the point, we're not sure Adrian Di Marco is the man for the job.
- Joe Aston
May 2019
Technology One and the pains of being priced for perfection
Enterprise software group Technology One is the latest company to learn that in the tech world, very good sometimes isn't quite good enough.
- James Thomson