About us

Leadership Team

• 
  Dragan Dimitrovici CEO & Founder
  

  Dragan Dimitrovici CEO & Founder

  Dragan’s ingenuity and enterprising instinct have always led him to think big.

  In 1996 at the age of 21, he established XENON Systems to capitalise on the opportunity to sell quality, locally assembled computer hardware. Since then, Dragan’s strategic foresight, technical excellence, and passion for new and imaginative technology use, has propelled XENON from a small-box mover to an award-winning supercomputing company.

  Today, the XENON Technology Group comprises of the original XENON Systems (computer hardware), MEDIAPROXY (complete solutions for the monitoring and logging of rich-media to broadcasters, IPTV, cable and satellite providers from around the world), XDT (solutions for high-speed data transfers and frame review for film post-production works) and XENOptics (solutions for fibre automation).

  Dragan is recognised by the Australian business community as a thought leader in technology, and has won the Melbourne Business Award for Innovation & Enterprise in 2005 and was an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year: Southern Region Finalist in 2006.

  Dragan attended the University of Melbourne in Information Management and is a certified Intel Server Integration Specialist.

• 
  Joao Almeida General Manager & Director Global Business
  

  Joao Almeida General Manager & Director Global Business

  Joao is passionate about technology that makes an impact on humanity.

  Joao has been leading teams delivering HPC solutions in New Zealand and Australia for over two decades. In that time, he’s seen how technology can enable science and how the two have grown and advanced together. From weather modelling to leading medical research, Joao’s teams have been a valued part of advancing human knowledge.

  Joao regularly speaks about HPC, Data and AI contributing his experience to the wider dialogue about how these technologies are rapidly transforming companies and society.

  Outside of XENON, you may find Joao riding his motorbike through the bush, or spending time with his young family.

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  Dr Werner Scholz CTO & Head of R&D, XENON Group
  

  Dr Werner Scholz CTO & Head of R&D, XENON Group

  Werner is always looking for the best technologies and solutions.

  With a background in nanotechnology and expertise in computational science and high performance computing systems, Werner brings his experience from leading edge research and development organizations in Europe and the US to XENON. At XENON he is responsible for product design, research and development and the technical team, who delivers XENON’s new products and solutions.

  Werner has more than 15 years experience with high performance computing systems – from individual workstations and storage servers to massively parallel HPC clusters and large storage systems. He is also the developer of an open source finite element simulation package, which uses MPI, OpenMP, and GPU parallelization techniques. It is in use by academic and industrial research organizations around the world.

  Werner has a PhD in physics from the Vienna University of Technology in Austria, where he specialized in computational physics and magnetic materials. He is the author of more than 80 journal articles in the area of computational physics and magnetic nanostructures and co-inventor of 12 patents related to magnetic storage technologies.

• 
  Shane Wallis CFO
  

  Shane Wallis CFO

  Shane serves as XENON’s CFO and is responsible for the financial affairs of the XENON Technology Group across Australia and Asia. Shane is an accomplished finance professional with over 25 years industry experience. He spent the first part of his career working for a multinational firm in various finance roles, including an international secondment.

  Prior to joining XENON, Shane was the CFO of a firm that manufactured and distributed products and capital equipment for the construction industry across Australia and New Zealand. Along with the financial responsibilities of the role, this tenure enabled Shane to gain valuable insight on the commercial aspects of business, working closely with other divisions including sales, operations, administration and marketing, and reporting to the Board.

  In his spare time, Shane enjoys spending time with family and friends, listening to music, gardening and supporting the Western Bulldogs!

• 
  Nick Gorga Chief Operating Officer
  

  Nick Gorga Chief Operating Officer

  Nick’s focus on creating great outcomes for customers has been the foundation of over 30 years of success.

  Nick has been at the forefront of accelerated computing since 1992, leading the pioneering companies in HPC, AI and Data which have provided solutions to governments and companies across the APAC region. Whether working in the Asia, India, Korea, Middle East, or ANZ, Nick thoughtfully works through cultural differences to deliver what matters most – solutions that provide transformative capabilities and represent lasting value.

  After work, you may find Nick enjoying time with his family and friends.

• 
  Michael Shing Director of Federal Sales
  

  Michael Shing Director of Federal Sales

  Michael builds lasting relationships and is a valued and trusted partner of our customers.

  Michael has over 20 years experience in IT, primarily in the fields of data management and data workflows in large complex environments. Michael has worked in a variety of roles in his career, from telemarketing to account management, territory management and sales management – across local and international businesses, both systems integrators and international hardware vendors.

  This diverse experience allows Michael to cut through the noise and build practical solutions to customer’s problems that deliver over the short and long term. And he does this with a relaxed, fun approach that makes it easy to tackle the most complex data management issues.

  Michael’s strong and meaningful relationships with customers and partners embody the true meaning of the words “treat people the way you like to be treated”.

  Michael also has an abiding passion for cooking and good food, born in his early days in the family Chinese restaurant in regional NSW.

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  Vita Calabrese People & Culture
  

  Vita Calabrese People & Culture

  Vita Calabrese is XENON’s People & Culture Manager. Vita is a founding member of the XENON Technology Group who served as XENON’s Marketing Manager for over 20 years. During this time she contributed and watched XENON grow from a small team of three, to a thriving innovative technology organisation spanning across 3 continents. How does a company achieve success at this level? It is all about the PEOPLE! Vita is passionate about creating a dynamic, honest workplace culture where all team members have an opportunity to learn, contribute and be rewarded.

  In her spare time Vita loves spending time with her family and going out for long nature walks.

• 
  Jon Tinberg Head of Marketing, XENON and XENOptics
  

  Jon Tinberg Head of Marketing, XENON and XENOptics

  Jon loves telling the XENON story and bringing our message to the market.

  In a diverse IT career over the last twenty years, Jon has worked in infrastructure, cloud, managed services, software as a service, and IT education … across roles in marketing, sales and management. Jon has been a founder, raised capital, navigated successful trade sale exits and has worked for global tier 1 IT vendors. This diverse experience informs an innovative and outcome focused approach to Jon’s marketing practice.

  Jon has a BA in Economics from University of Michigan, a Masters from University of Technology Sydney, and has three patents to his name. Outside of work, you’ll find Jon enjoying sailing on Pittwater with his family, or trying to improve his golf swing.