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| Matt Barrie |
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"Matt" Barrie (born 16 August 1973) is an Australian technology
entrepreneur. He is the chief executive officer of Freelancer.com, a global
online outsourcing marketplace. He also is an adjunct associate professor at
the University of Sydney where he teaches classes in computer and network
security (since 2001) and technology venture creation (since 2010). In 2012,
Barrie began contributing as a monthly columnist in BRW, an Australian weekly
business magazine.
Born in Adelaide,
Australia, in 1973, Barrie moved with his parents to Jakarta, Indonesia ,from
1980 to 1982, where he attended Jakarta International School. Returning to
Australia, his parents settled in Sydney. He attended Sydney Grammar School on
the Albert Bythesea Weigall scholarship.
In 1996, he graduated
from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours)
in computer science and a Bachelors in Engineering in electrical engineering
(First Class Honours). In 1994, he was on the team which won the Australian National
Universities Programming Championship run by the Australian Computer Society.
In 1997, he was accepted
to Stanford University, from where he graduated in 1998 with a master's degree
in electrical engineering. After graduating, he was employed as a security
consultant at the information security company Securify, which was then
acquired by Kroll-O'Gara. At Kroll-O'Gara, Barrie acquired the popular
information security website Packetstorm from Ken Williams.
Returning to Australia
in 2000, he worked as a venture capitalist for the boutique firm Innovation
Capital, before founding Sensory Networks, a network security company, where he
was Chief Executive from 2001 to 2006. In 2013, Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:
INTC) announced that it was acquiring Sensory Networks.
(Source : Wikipedia)
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