Dr Nick Tate

President of the Australian Computer Society (ACS)

Dr Nick Tate is an experienced senior executive, with a strong background in Information Technology (IT) and Cybersecurity. He is a CEO and Company Director and has considerable experience at the level of CIO. He is co-author of “A Director’s Guide to Governing Information Technology and Cybersecurity”, a book published by the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD).

Nick is Managing Director and CEO of Haroldton Associates, Principal Consultant at BCI Technology and has 18 years’ experience as a Company Director in 11 Australian and 2 US companies. He has a PhD in Cybersecurity and is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Queensland (UQ).

Nick has over 40 years’ experience in the field of IT including 16 years as a CIO/Head of IT at two London banks and at UQ. He holds voluntary positions as President of the South-East Asia Regional Computer Consortium (SEARCC), National Vice President of the Australian Computer Society (ACS), Chair of the Council of ICT Associations (CICTA) and Immediate Past Chair of ACS Queensland. He is a faculty member of the African Leadership Institute and chaired the World Computer Congress in 2010. He was National President of the (ACS) in 2012/2013.

His career has included 20 years with investment/commercial banks, 18 years in London and 2 years at Macquarie Bank in Sydney where he was responsible for Global IT infrastructure. He has also spent over 15 years working with universities and research organisations and 3 years working on missile systems.

He recently directed the Australian Government funded Research Data Storage Infrastructure (RDSI) project, which developed and deployed one of the largest research data clouds in Australia.

Whilst Head of IT at the United Bank of Kuwait in London, Nick was part of the senior management team that dealt with the bank’s response to the crisis in Kuwait during the first Gulf War when there was a run on the bank and an abolition of the bank’s currency of account.

MySec.TV

Call Out to Stop ‘Deputising’ Tech Companies

Podcast

Episode 310 – Reforming Electronic Surveillance in Australia – Part 1 – Submission from the Australia Computer Society