John Matthew Holt
Chief Executive Officer
John Matthew Holt is the creative architect and inspiration behind the RAIS technology concept which is derived from dedicated research into distributed computing and virtualisation technology. This began in 1998, at a time when John Matthew was still completing his secondary education. Single-handedly he conceived, designed and developed the foundation elements of a completely new approach to memory virtualisation technology for the Java platform that became what we now know as Replicode® and RAIS
Reaching a crucial and promising point within his research John Matthew deferred entry to his awarded place at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of New South Wales in favour of pursuing his goal of achieving the breakthrough he knew to be within reach. By 2002 all the foundation elements had been completed and John Matthew, with his father, co-founded Waratek Pty Ltd as the necessary support structure to exploit these extensive research efforts at a commercial level.
John Matthew took inspiration from the earlier development of RAID, the highly successful technology that revolutionised the management of data and disks. Managing the execution of code has different problems to managing static data, but it was the underlying principles of RAID that led to the development of RAIS, the core product of Waratek. RAIS will have the same worldwide impact on the management of distributed memory virtualisation as RAID has had for data management. Not only is John Matthew the inventor and founder of this technology he remains the visionary within Waratek driving RAIS technology to global commercial success.
Dr. John Holt
Chief Operating Officer
John has degrees in history, psychology and a PhD in Management from the Australian Graduate School of Management at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. John has a broad and varied background in operational management across different types of industry environments, such as home improvements, manufacturing and human services. He also has extensive experience in organisation and management research. This broad organisational experience has played a critical role in shaping the vision of Waratek and its R&D activities.
In 1998 John made the commitment to support his son’s research and development effort to break new ground in computer virtualisation technology. In December 2002, John with his son John Matthew co-founded and incorporated Waratek Pty Ltd to consolidate this innovative research into what is now called RAIS technology.
In January 2004 John took a full time role with Waratek and as Chairman and, until recently Managing Director, John has been responsible for building and expanding the strong management team necessary to introduce RAIS to the market and to maximise the commercial potential of Waratek.
Vincent Liu
Chief Software Engineer
Vincent Liu was born in Singapore where he attended Singapore Polytechnic, completing a diploma in electronics, communications and computer engineering. His high achievements at Singapore Polytechnic earned him both the Chunco Technology Prize for meritorious academic achievements and a Golden Jubilee Scholarship to the University of New South Wales, Australia, an award given only to the very best graduates from Singapore and Malaysia.
Vincent’s time at the University of New South Wales saw him graduate in 2003 with a Bachelor of Science degree (First Class Honours), majoring in Computer Science. During this period Vincent tutored on various computing subjects including software construction, e-commerce technologies, and object oriented software development. He also acted as a part-time research assistant for the School of Computer Science, developing software to calculate various performance metrics for web services.
Vincent came to the attention of Waratek in early 2004, when Dr Holt requested the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW to recommend a suitable candidate to join John Matthew Holt in completing the development and refinement of the emerging RAIS and Replicode® technology. Vincent, one of their top students planning entry to the Faculty’s PHD program was nominated. Quick to join the Waratek team Vincent has played a central role in assembling Waratek’s prototype reference server arrays, the largest being a 64 CPU array configuration, housed in the Australian Centre for Advanced Computing and Communication (AC3) in Redfern, Sydney.
Vincent is now appointed as the Chief Software Engineer for Waratek, where he leads a team of developers completing further optimisation of the code and the preparation of the Replicode® software into its commercial presentation to target clients during the current commercialisation process of RAIS and Replicode®.
David Randall
Business Development Director
David serves as a director on the Board of Waratek and advises on the commercialisation of the RAIS and Replicode® technology, including the raising of capital and the representation of minority shareholders.
Dave brings to Waratek his specialist skills in the formulation and execution of business and financial strategies for start up and early stage businesses - several of which he has built and exited by way of trade sale or IPO during a 30 year career in IT. His profitable application of VC funds while Managing Director of Azlan Group Plc, resulted in his winning the 1994 ‘UK Entrepreneur of the Year Award’ sponsored by the British Venture Capital Association and The Financial Times newspaper.
David moved from London to Sydney in 1997 and now serves on the boards of six Australian companies across a wide range of industry and commerce including property development, wireless communications, leather fashion products, kitchen design and software development.
Michael Bass
Director Enterprise Sales
Michael has spent the past twenty five years in the business development field, specialising in the IT market. He brings to Waratek extensive experience in all aspects of sales, marketing and business development processes; especially those bringing new technology applications and products successfully to market. With experience in the UK and Europe, Michael has worked with several major organisations, including Techex Communications, Computer 2000 and Barlan Technologies. In each of these organisations Michael was responsible for restructuring the sales processes during a time of rapid change.
A significant point in Michael’s career was when he served as a key member of David Randall’s team at Azlan when they successfully completed a management buy out and subsequent full listing on the London Stock Exchange. This activity has provided Michael with valuable experience in corporate commercial processes.
Michael has a proven record of building and managing sales and business development teams and the preparation of business and marketing strategy processes. With these qualities Michael will provide a vital contribution to the commercial development of Waratek.
Colin Fitzpatrick
Director Software Development
Colin is responsible in Waratek for the overall management of software development and graduated in June 1996 with a B.Sc. (Honours) in Applied Computing from Waterford Institute of Technology. Since that time he has forged a successful career in Information Technology, specialising in software development. With expertise covering Telecoms, Finance, e-Learning, Security and Change Management he has extensive experience across a large variety of platforms and is highly skilled with an impressive array of computer languages and software tools and systems.
He has extended his personal development as a continuous process beyond his graduation with a variety of technical and management training courses and has published and presented papers to the Irish Society for Scientific and Engineering Computation (ISSEC). In 1999 Colin led a Smithsonian Award and PC World award winning project on the Advanced Use of Information Technology for Education
Colin’s previous work has taken him throughout Ireland and the United States and includes working in the High Performance Computing arena and with large enterprises including Vodafone, Apple and Intel.