Tuesday, 20 January, 2004 - 21:00
QPSX tackles global IP market
AT first glance QPSX seems to be just another relic of the dot.com boom.
Graham Griffiths was an experienced company director and executive head who passed away in 2019.
At the time of his passing, Mr Griffiths served as non-executive chair of Perth-based companies Botanix Pharmaceuticals, Pointerra, Iperative, and Fleetsu. He was also non-executive chair of NGIS Australia for 12 years until March last year. Mr Griffiths was managing director of intellectual property commercialisation company Ipernica (which later became NearMap in 2008) for nearly 12 years until late 2011, and was the chief executive of oil and gas-focused software company Stochastic Simulation for two years until August 2014.
He graduated from Curtin University in 1975 with an Accounting degree, and in 1981 started an 18-year stint at automation services company NCR Corporation where he worked in various sales-related roles in Australia, US and the Philippines.
AT first glance QPSX seems to be just another relic of the dot.com boom.
TECHNOLOGY and intellectual property group ipernica completed its acquisition of new media company NearMap last week in a strategic change of focus that could pitch it against the likes of Google Earth on the world aerial mapping stage.
Osborne Park-based technology firm Stochastic Simulation has launched new software which it claims will enable oil and gas companies to achieve overnight a level of subsurface analysis which would have previously taken years.
Graham Griffiths has been appointed as a non-executive director of Pointerra.
A soon-to-be listed tech company led by local entrepreneur Rob Newman and company director Ian Olson has lodged its prospectus for a $5 million capital raising, as it proceeds with its reverse takeover of Soil Sub Technologies.
Medical dermatology company Botanix Pharmaceuticals has enjoyed healthy gains on its first day of trading on the ASX, after completing a reverse takeover of Bone Medical.
David St Denis has been appointed chief operating officer of Admedus. He succeeds Julian Chick, who has resigned from the company.
Conrad Crisafulli, who was one of the pioneers of venture capital investing and technology commercialisation in Western Australia, has died after a long illness.
Subiaco-based tech startup Fleetsu is seeking to raise $1 million in venture capital funding to better target multinational customers for its vehicle tracking technology.
Shares in medical dermatology company Botanix Pharmaceuticals, led by Perth-based chairman Graham Griffiths and executive director Matt Callahan, have jumped more than 20 per cent today after the company announced successful results from an acne patient study.
Medical dermatology company Botanix Pharmaceuticals has raised $15 million through a strongly supported share placement, with the proceeds set to be spent on developing its lead product for acne.
Perth’s business community was shocked today to learn of the sudden passing of Graham Griffiths, who was chairman of five technology companies and had been a mentor to many people in the tech sector.
Botanix Pharmaceuticals has appointed Vince Ippolito as its president in the US, and subject to shareholder approval, he will also assume the role of executive chairman for the company.
Geospatial innovation shows that WA does tech investment very well.
Position | Company | Year | Company's current rank |
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Non-Executive Chair
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2016 - 2019 | 148 | |
Chair
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2015 - 2019 | ||
Non-Executive Director, Chair since 2017
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2015 - 2019 | 100 | |
Non-Executive Director
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2012 - 2018 | ||
Chief Executive, Executive Director
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2000 - 2011 |
Company | Date | Transaction type | Number of shares | Price per share | Transaction value | Nature of change |
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2018-04-27 | Bought | 200,000 | $0.13 | $25,000 | Off-market trade | |
2017-05-03 | Bought | 250,000 | $0.03 | $6,250 | On-market trade | |
2016-12-01 | Issued | 4,053,990 | $0.00 | Other | ||
2016-10-25 | Bought | 1,000,000 | $0.05 | $49,395 | On-market trade |