Thursday, 9 June, 2011 - 00:00
PC Locs schools competitors on innovation
PAUL Symons could never have predicted the tangent his life would take when he left his job as a high school teacher in 1998 to start Malaga-based company PC Locs.
James Symons joined PC Locs soon after his father started the business, running sales and marketing activities and has helped it grow an impressive 400 per cent since he took over as managing director (as a 25 year old) in 2005. PC Locs was founded on the simple idea that, with more and more computers being introduced into schools, there needed to be a better way of protecting them from theft. The company took this concept and developed it into a business with a range of innovative products; offices in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane; and an international distribution network. Mr Symons was named West Australian Entrepreneur Of The Year at EY's 2019 Entrepreneur Of The Year Western Region awards.
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PAUL Symons could never have predicted the tangent his life would take when he left his job as a high school teacher in 1998 to start Malaga-based company PC Locs.
SPECIAL REPORT: In 1998, then mathematics teacher Paul Symons was frustrated with the number of desktop computers being stolen from Perth schools, so he designed and created a solution – an innovative locking device that bolted a computer to a desk – PC Locs.
EY has named Nick Tana as its Champion of Entrepreneurship at the 2019 Entrepreneur of the Year Western Region awards, while Jim Fitzgerald, Iris Smit and Daniel Morrison were among the seven other winners in Western Australia.