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Martin Duursma

Partner at Main Sequence

Greater Sydney Area

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $250,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $20,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $10,125,000.00

Skills

Channel
Executive Management
Software Development
Technology
Innovation Management
Product Innovation
Technological Innovation
Citrix
Leadership
Virtualization
Enterprise Architecture
Software Design
Cloud Computing
Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
Solution Selling
Management
Start-ups
Product Management
Program Management

Education

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2017

    Main Sequence Ventures is a deep tech early stage venture capital fund investing in companies leveraging Australian public sector research (Universities, CSIRO, CRCs, etc). Main Sequence creates companies, funds spinouts as well as established SMEs collaborating with these institutions. Our team has extensive experience commercialising emerging technologies, both as both founders and investors, so are purpose-built to help you achieve your goals. If you are a founder inventing the new possible, we want to speak to you!

  • Advisory Council Member, Faculty of Science and Engineering

    2015 - 2020

  • Mentor and Advisor

    2014 - 2019

  • Committee Member for Active Policy Advisory Board

    2014 - 2019

  • Board Trustee

    2013 - 2019

2016 - 2017

  • Business/Innovation Mentor

    2016 - 2017

    ON is the CSIRO's innovation and entrepreneurship program. It's aim is to increase the CSIRO ability to help their customers, partners and staff, reinvent existing industries and create new industries for Australia. To do this the CSIRO is strengthening their connections with the Australian innovation system to accelerate their entrepreneurial capacity.

1997 - 2016

  • VP Citrix Technology Office

    1997 - 2016

    Martin Duursma is the CTO Office Chair for Citrix Systems, Inc. & VP Citrix Technology Office. In this dual capacity Duursma is tasked with day to day running of the CTO Office which is responsible for educating and evangelizing technology directions, trends and standards within Citrix as well as cross group technology governance. In his role as VP Citrix Technology Office, Duursma is chartered with conceiving and producing creative products, components and technologies crucial to the company's success. His global responsibilities include development groups located in Redmond, USA, and Sydney, Australia which pioneer and review new technologies with a two to three-year horizon. Ultimately these technologies become part of the Citrix product portfolio. Additionally he is responsible for external innovation through the Citrix Startup Accelerator program.

2012 - 2015

  • BEC Committee Member

    2012 - 2015

    The Business Evaluation Committee works with senior management and board members at NICTA to provide guidance to business teams for technology commercialization.

Datapac Australasia Pty Ltd

1988 - 1997

  • Founder & Director of Engineering

    1988 - 1997

    Datapac developed a multiuser business operating system "System Manager" based on Digital Research's Concurrent DOS product. From 1994 to 1997 Datapac was a Citrix OEM partner and produced it's own version of the Citrix WinFrame product.

Datamax Pty Ltd

1984 - 1988

  • Software Engineer

    1984 - 1988

    BIOS and Kernel Engineer, Engineering management