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Silvio Salom is a proven chief executive, change agent and entrepreneur. His expertise in successfully growing technology companies has been acquired and proven through considerable experience. Silvio is an experienced chief executive and non-executive Board member of private and public companies. He has operational expertise with start-ups, as well as with large, rapidly growing companies. Silvio has deep strengths in technology commercialisation, international expansion, mergers and acquisitions, capital raising and publicly listed operations. The focus of Silvio's work has been as a technology supplier to Aerospace & Defence, Telecommunication, Aviation, E-commerce, Enterprise and Training markets on a global basis. In 1987 Silvio founded Adacel Technologies Ltd, in Melbourne, as a private company to service the aerospace and defence markets with leading edge technology solutions. Silvio built Adacel to be a $100m world leader in its markets, listing the company in 1998, acquiring a major global player in North America and transitioning the business to the USA. Silvio is Managing Director of Adacel. In 1990 Silvio co-founded Lochard Pty Ltd to deliver best-of-breed environment monitoring solutions to airports. Silvio remains a non-executive director of Lochard and today, the $20m company is the clear leader in its global market. As with Adacel, Silvio used advanced technology to secure customer preference and acquisition of a USA major to realise global market leadership. Silvio currently serves as Chairman of Gramercy Venture Advisors, as an ITC Advisory Board member for the CSIRO, in the Cooperative Research Centres for Intelligent Decision Systems and Smart Internet Technology and as a non-executive director of LogoMedia Inc, a company Silvio founded in Boston to address the on-line machine translation market. He has also served as a director for Melbourne University Private, Vice Chairman of Airport Industries Australia and as founding Board member of the IT&T Skills Hub. | 