About Me

I'm an Aussie living in Singapore. My interests are pretty broad, but include:

Technology

• I am Chief Privacy Officer at TrustSphere where I am responsible for the company's information policy and practices.
• I've made something of a habit of involving myself in the founding of technical-community organisations:
  • ProgSoc, which is now older than most of its members (!)
  • APANA's Sydney chapter, which has had the good fortune to suceed in making itself obselete by virtue of the problem that it was created to solve ceasing to exist
  • HackerspaceSG, which is alive and well
• Amateur Radio
• Environmental monitoring
• Email transport, authentication and abuse reduction

Entrepreneurship

I advise and support multiple entrepreneurs. Particular examples include being mentor to:

• Startup Leadership's Singapore Chapter,
• multiple participating startups in JFDI's Accelerate program, and
• the 2014 run of the DBS-NUS Social Venture Challenge Asia.

Dance

• Modern Jive, Salsa, Bachata, ... since about 2000. I was even persuaded to perform and compete a few times in 2009/2010, but now just dance socially.

Outdoors

• Running. I grew up viewing exercise as a form of torture, however in 2008 I discovered that I actually enjoyed distance running.
• Kosciuszko National Park. My favourite place anywhere in the world (and in particular: Illawong Lodge, Perisher Huette and the Main Range Track).

Economics

• An abiding interest since high-school which currently manifests itself as an occasional blog post.

Speaker Bio

Roland is Chief Privacy Officer for TrustSphere where he is responsible for the company's information policy and practices. He is a HackerspaceSG founding member and FOSSASIA organiser, holds a Computer Science degree from UTS, and is an avid dancer, runner, and ham radio operator with a particular interest in space.