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Marc Bailey revitalised research accelerator Intersect Australia, reversing financial losses and expanding operations nationally. His leadership introduced new revenue-generating product lines that transformed cloud computing, supercomputing, big storage and digital research services for customers.

Intersect transitioned from being an owner/operator of a subscale HPC cluster to the largest workload aggregator for Australia's peak supercomputing facilities. 

By enhancing the organisation’s customer focus and recrafting business models Bailey repositioned Intersect as a key player in the research tech  sector, delivering operational excellence and product management. Data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence training transformed from an internal cottage-industry to a standardised, high growth service measured by net promoter score.

The result is that Intersect is the dominant national supplier of researcher training, with over 5000 researchers trained annually, including AI technologies like R classifiers, pandas, numpy, seaborn, linear regression, tensorflow and pytorch.

Marc's efforts modernised the organisation's approach and market alignment for both computational research and software, yielding membership productivity and strategic partnerships with the private and public sectors.

Objective regtech products form the essential single source of truth for heavy-weight customers in regulated industries and the government sector internationally including whole-of-government, defence and tax. As CTO Marc Bailey forecast IT strategy for global client CEOs and CIOs to create long term confidence and help them execute to functional, risk, operational and budgetary parameters.

Internally he spearheaded significant internet transformation of the company’s R&D and product strategies.

He restructured development teaming, introduced agile methodologies, virtualised test platforms, embraced internet and mobile technologies and boosted product release rates while reducing defect count. His focus on software modernisation and user-centric product development allowed Objective to accelerate time-to-market while enhancing user experience. Objective achieved ISO 9001 certification simultaneously.

Bailey's Imagineering team worked on state-of-the-art technology and product design. It conducted fundamental search engine research into precomputed corpus access control security, lighting the path for the next generation of products and positioning Objective for its next phase of international growth. 

Bailey was also a key executive in the acquisition team responsible for due diligence and integration strategy, delivering outcomes like the successful merger of LimehouseSoftware.co.uk, broadening the customer base with an offering tailored to local government consultation processes.

Marc Bailey founded two startups entirely through organic growth funding in his early career.

BBB was a software and networking consultancy firm. In partnership with Allan Bailey, Adam Bailey and Brett Greenshields it grew to operate in four states, ~30 employees and revenues of $6M annually. BBB was accredited on federal and state government panels and served customers including Apple, American Express, Optus, Telstra, Microsoft, Joy Mining, St. Vincent's Hospital, DSS, BHP Aerospace and many others. BBB was acquired by The Dialog Group, later itself acquired by NCS.

F6 Internet Services was one of Australia's first regional internet service providers. Using a mix of PSTN and ISDN technologies it serviced the NSW Illawarra catchment area. F6 grew to be the dominant local provider and was acquired by Magna Data, later itself acquired by OneTel.