Bevan Slattery

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Bevan Slattery
Born
Bevan Andrew Slattery
NationalityAustralian
Education North Rockhampton State High School
Alma mater Central Queensland University
OccupationTechnology entrepreneur
Known for NextDC, SUB.CO, Cloudscene, Superloop, Megaport, Co-Founder PIPE Networks, HyperOne

Bevan Andrew Slattery is an Australian technology entrepreneur [1] who has built a number of businesses that handles data and telecommunications.

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Early life

Bevan grew up in Rockhampton, Queensland, [2] where he attended Frenchville State School.[ citation needed ] He graduated from North Rockhampton State High School in 1988, then attended Central Queensland University, which later awarded him an honorary MBA. [3] He worked as a trainee local government clerk for Rockhampton City Council. [4]

Career

In 1998, Slattery co-founded iSeek, a cloud, data centre and connectivity provider [5] that was sold to US firm N2H2 for US$16 million in 2000. In 2001, with Steve Baxter, Slattery co-founded telecommunications infrastructure provider PIPE Networks; and the company was sold to TPG in 2010 for A$373 million. [6] The same year, Slattery founded NextDC, a data centre provider.

In 2012 Slattery founded the AsiaPacific Data Centre, a data centre real estate trust; and also SubPartners, a submarine cable group. [7] The following year Slattery co-founded Biopixel, a filming company specialising in natural history behavioural sequences for both clients and its own specialist library; and in the same year he founded Megaport, a technology networking business that offers scalable bandwidth for public and private cloud connections, metro ethernet, and Data Centre backhaul as well as Internet Exchange Services. [8] In 2014 Slattery founded Superloop, a fibre network infrastructure provider for the Asia Pacific region with networks in Singapore and Australia. He floated Superloop the following year. [2] In 2015 Slattery founded Cloudscene, the world's largest directory of colocation data centres, cloud service providers, and interconnected fabrics.

Slattery was inducted into the CommsDay Hall of Fame in 2017 for his major contribution to the development of Australia's telecommunications industry. [9]

Personal life

In 2011, Slattery was listed on BRW 's list of the 100 wealthiest Australians under 40 years, with a net worth of A$103 million. [10] Slattery made his debut appearance on the Financial Review 2020 Rich List with a net worth of A$564 million. [11] [12] In 2022, Slattery was ranked at #69 on The Courier-Mail's list of Queensland's most powerful people. [13]

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References

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  2. 1 2 Redrup, Yolanda (14 January 2016). "Meet Megaport's Bevan Slattery, Australia's unknown tech success story". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 16 January 2016. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
  3. ↑ "Teens take software from concept to code". Central Queensland University . 18 November 2014. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
  4. ↑ Redrup, Yolanda (14 January 2016). "Meet Megaport's Bevan Slattery, Australia's unknown tech success story". The Australian Financial Review . Retrieved 5 September 2022. I was getting bored at uni so I got a job at the Rockhampton City Council as a trainee local government clerk
  5. ↑ "Snapshot of Bevan Slattery's Success". The Morning Bulletin . 22 August 2015. Archived from the original on 24 August 2017. Retrieved 7 September 2015– via HighBeam Research.
  6. ↑ Heber, Alex (25 May 2015). "Shark Tank tech investor Steve Baxter still loves paper-based systems". Business Insider . Retrieved 7 September 2015.
  7. ↑ "Bevan Slattery". The Australian . 19 March 2013. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
  8. ↑ Swan, David (9 April 2015). "Bevan Slattery's Superloop appoints new CEO". Business Spectator . Retrieved 7 September 2015.
  9. ↑ "Superloop Founder & CEO Bevan Slattery Inducted into CommsDay's Hall of Fame". Superloop. 17 March 2017. Archived from the original on 31 August 2017. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
  10. ↑ "Tinkler tops young rich list". Yahoo7 . 22 September 2011. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
  11. ↑ Bailey, Michael; Sprague, Julie-anne (30 October 2020). "The full list: Australia's wealthiest 200 revealed" . The Australian Financial Review . Nine Publishing. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
  12. ↑ Sprague, Julie-anne; Bailey, Michael (28 October 2020). "Meet the debutants storming up the Rich List" . The Australian Financial Review . Nine Publishing. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
  13. ↑ "The Courier-Mail's 2022 Power 100 list: Counting down the most powerful people in Queensland (100-51)". The Courier-Mail. 5 September 2022. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
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