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Paul Vinton is a business technology specialist who has a passion to assist business and community leaders to achieve their goals. Born in Western Australia, Paul now resides in Adelaide, South Australia with his wife Leanne and sons Andrew and Wesley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Paul has worked in the ICT sector for more than three decades and is
recognised as an industry expert regularly being asked for comment and being featured in Australian IT media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After moving from Western Australia to Adelaide Paul founded his information technology consulting firm in 1988 with his wife Leanne. The Vintek Group grew to a national firm and was sold to an American venture capital funded organisation in September 2020 for a significant sum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an industry ICT and data security specialist, Paul has undertaken security and ICT audits, reviews and strategic direction for local and national organisations and sits on a number of boards, both in Australia and overseas, setting strategic direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As a senior strategist Paul regularly interacts with global leads on emerging technology. He also has regularly been asked to be a judge in both national ICT Innovation awards and Women in ICT awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2015 Paul won the EY Entrepreneur of the Year in the Central Region for the Technology sector – a prestigious award recognising ICT excellence in entrepreneurship that is ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Paul is frequently asked to speak at industry conferences as a
\ndata security and ICT industry expert and has undertaken
\npresentations with global vendors to strategic clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a catalyst and leader within the emerging technology space Paul has played undertaken the following achievements:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 2022 Appointed to the SA Government Industry Skills Council
\u2022 2021 Founded Advanced Data Systems Pty Ltd – which has grown to 5 employees in a few months
\u2022 2021 won Fortinet SD-WAN Partner of the year – beating other significant Australian IT players
\u2022 2021 appointed to the Council of Alphacrucis University College – a significant national College in process of becoming a University in Australia
\u2022 2020 sold the Vintek group to New Era Technology – a global firm based in the USA
\u2022 2019 Purchased National Federal Government and Mid-enterprise focused firm Cloud Central<\/a> – an Openstack based cloud provider – successfully growing it to 4 x size in 2 years
\u2022 2017 Purchased long-standing Sydney-based enterprise solution provider Regal IT<\/a>
\u2022 2017 Fortinet partner of the year award
\u2022 2016 Australian Computer Society SA Branch Executive Member
\u2022 2016 Purchased National data centre business Intervolve<\/a>
\u2022 2015 EY Entrepreneur of the Year award (Central region – Technology)
\u2022 SA Government Office of the Industry Advocate – Advisory Panel member
\u2022 2015 Technology Industry Association (TIA) of SA board member
\u2022 2014 Australian National IBM networking partner of the year award
\u2022 Australian National IBM \u201cBusiness Partner Demonstration Excellence\u201d award
\u2022 First in the world to deploy IBM SDN VE \u2013 a revolutionary new data centre technology
\u2022 First in Asia-Pacific to deploy OpenFlow \u2013 an emerging networking technology
\u2022 IBM Global story on Vintek\u2019s solutions and strategic direction
\u2022 BRW featured story on the ICT implementation of a key client
\u2022 Multiple first of technology sales in Australia for latest generation technologies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Download <\/a>biography <\/a>(<\/a>PDF<\/a>)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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