Matt Barrie

Posted by on Dec 5, 2010 in Guests | 1 comment

Matt Barrie – CEO

Freelancer.com

Freelancer.com is the world’s largest outsourcing marketplace connecting almost 2 million professionals from around the globe. According to Alexa, Freelancer.com is the largest website run by an Australian company, and in the top 350 websites worldwide. Previously, he was founder and CEO of Sensory Networks Inc., the leading developer of OEM high performance network security processors. Prior to this he cofounded a hardware vendor supplying the global telecommunications market. At Sensory, Matt took the company from its genesis to over 70 employees, operating in four locations worldwide and supplier to vendors of network and security equipment including McAfee, LG, Astaro and others.

He is active with technology startups, including acting as an advisor to QuintessenceLabs, a quantum communications company in the defence sector, and until recently a non-executive director of Julius Finance, Inc. (now Benchmark Solutions), a New York based provider of advanced analytics for the credit derivatives market. He has raised approximately $40M USD in financing from venture capital, strategic investors and through government grants while running or assisting technology companies. For the last ten years has been an external lecturer at the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of Sydney in Information Security, and starting in 2010, Technology Venture Formation. He is the co-author of over 20 US patent applications. In 2006, he was awarded the State Pearcey Award for contribution to the IT&T industry. In 2010 he was named Alumnus of the Year for the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Sydney. He is also a Governor of the Electrical Engineering Foundation.

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1 Comment

  1. dora
    May 27, 2011

    Hi Matt,

    Can you help me to understand the issue with your company?

    I need to know if this is true? http://www.ripoffreport.com/book-magazine-publishers/freelancer-com-getaf/freelancer-com-getafreelancer-4c539.htm

    I found many more complaints for the website. Also, why don’t your support team solve the query on urgent basis.

    Freelancers from all over the world depend on your platform for their money and how can you suspend the account without notification, when there is money in that particular account and user is with you from last 6 years?

    Can you explain this. What kind of support you provide?

    There is no phone number, no response to tickets, mails sent, no online chat available.

    How do you advice to contact you people for help! Even after contacting your support team so many times, no response.

    This is mental harassment for the freelancers who work so hard on the projects to get money and suddenly they see your mail saying account suspended without any notification.

    And after submitting all proof, no action is taken for days, and no replies.

    What will you say about this?

    I would like to know the answers.

    Thanks

    reply