Adjunct Professor, UNSW
Professor Paul X. McCarthy is an author, researcher and entrepreneur focused on technology and its role in accelerating global innovation and business growth. His book ''Online Gravity'' explains how technology has rebooted economics and is published by Simon & Schuster. A best selling Chinese edition (引力) is published by CITIC Press in Beijing and the leading Russian publisher AST in Moscow has recently published a Russian-edition (Бизнес в интернете).
McCarthy is CEO and co-founder of League of Scholars a global research analytics service and CEO of Online Gravity Consulting a strategic technology incubator. He is also adjunct Professor at the University of New South Wales School of Computer Science and Engineering and Honorary Research Fellow at Western Sydney University.
Previously McCarthy was the non-executive chairman of The Studio — a new Australian mediatech hub based in Sydney and an adviser to CSIRO's Data61—Australia’s National Science Agency and the inventors of Wi-Fi. McCarthy is also co-founder of several innovative enterprises for IBM, NSW Government and SIRCA the inventors of the worlds first financial markets tick archive — Thomson Reuters Tick History a service now used by most major banks, hedge funds and regulators worldwide.
McCarthy received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Graduate DipArts in Fine Arts both from the University of Sydney, where he won the Ian Langham Memorial Prize in History and Philosophy of Science, his Master of Design in Digital Media from the University of Western Sydney and his MBA from Macquarie University, where he won the MGSM Award for Advertising and Marketing.
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