Dr David Skellern

Dr David Skellern worked in radio astronomy for 10 years and taught electronics at the
University of Sydney and Macquarie Universities for 16 years before coming to prominence
in the IT sector through Radiata, which he co-founded in 1997. Building on joint research at
Macquarie University and CSIRO, Radiata demonstrated the world’s first chip-set
implementation of the 54Mbit/s lEEE 802.11a high speed WLAN standard. Radiata was sold
in 2001 to Cisco Systems Inc, where Dr Skellern was Director, Technology of the Wireless
Networking Business Unit until 2004.He was appointed to the Board of National ICT Australia in 2003 and was Chief Executive Officer 2005-2010.

He was a Non-executive Director (NED) of the Board of the Capital Markets CRC (CMCRC)
2004-2019 and Board Chair 2013-2019, then Chair of RoZetta Institute Ltd (formerly
CMCRC) 2019-2022. He was also a NED of the Boards of eight RoZetta Group companies.
Dr Skellern is a NED and Board Chair of Quasar Satellite Technologies Pty Ltd, the
Semiconductor Sector Service Bureau (S3B), and the International Centre for Radio
Astronomy Research (ICRAR), and a NED of Trovio Pte Ltd.

He advises several early-stage
technology companies. He is a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London and an Adjunct
Professor at Macquarie University. Dr Skellern commenced as Board Chair on April 1 2024.