Martin Duursma

Partner

2017 - Current

Main Sequence Ventures is a deep tech early stage venture capital fund investing in companies leveraging Australian public sector research (Universities, CSIRO, CRCs, etc). Main Sequence creates companies, funds spinouts as well as established SMEs collaborating with these institutions. Our team has extensive experience commercialising emerging technologies, both as both founders and investors, so are purpose-built to help you achieve your goals. If you are a founder inventing the new possible, we want to speak to you!

Advisory Council Member, Faculty of Science and Engineering

2015 - 2020

Mentor and Advisor

2014 - 2019

Committee Member for Active Policy Advisory Board

2014 - 2019

Board Trustee

2013 - 2019

Business/Innovation Mentor

2016 - 2017

ON is the CSIRO's innovation and entrepreneurship program. It's aim is to increase the CSIRO ability to help their customers, partners and staff, reinvent existing industries and create new industries for Australia. To do this the CSIRO is strengthening their connections with the Australian innovation system to accelerate their entrepreneurial capacity.

VP Citrix Technology Office

1997 - 2016

Martin Duursma is the CTO Office Chair for Citrix Systems, Inc. & VP Citrix Technology Office. In this dual capacity Duursma is tasked with day to day running of the CTO Office which is responsible for educating and evangelizing technology directions, trends and standards within Citrix as well as cross group technology governance. In his role as VP Citrix Technology Office, Duursma is chartered with conceiving and producing creative products, components and technologies crucial to the company's success. His global responsibilities include development groups located in Redmond, USA, and Sydney, Australia which pioneer and review new technologies with a two to three-year horizon. Ultimately these technologies become part of the Citrix product portfolio. Additionally he is responsible for external innovation through the Citrix Startup Accelerator program.

BEC Committee Member

2012 - 2015

The Business Evaluation Committee works with senior management and board members at NICTA to provide guidance to business teams for technology commercialization.

Founder & Director of Engineering

1988 - 1997

Datapac developed a multiuser business operating system "System Manager" based on Digital Research's Concurrent DOS product. From 1994 to 1997 Datapac was a Citrix OEM partner and produced it's own version of the Citrix WinFrame product.

Software Engineer

1984 - 1988

BIOS and Kernel Engineer, Engineering management