Board Director

Dr Graham Hellestrand is Founder and Chief Executive Officer (2007- ) of the US and Australian companies Embedded Systems Technology (EST). EST’s intellectual property is applied in engineering optimum distributed real-time control for transport systems involving vehicles, traffic and infrastructure and is generally applicable to complex real-time system specification and optimization.

He was Founder, Chairman and CEO (1997-2004) of VaST Systems Technology – an Australian and US VC funded spin-out group of companies from UNSW that is operating in global markets with offices in US, JP, EU and AU.

Dr. Hellestrand was elected Emeritus Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of NSW in 2003 and named in the Bulletin’s Smart 100 in 2006.

 He holds a Bachelor of Science, PhD and Exec MBA degrees from the University of NSW and an MBA degree from the University of Sydney. He is a Fellow of the IEEE; Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia. He has published in excess of 100 referred papers in international conferences and journals and is the principal author of the first two patents that underlie VaST's world class technology.

He has held a number of positions in the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society: Member, Board of Governors and Executive Committee (1994-1998 & 2005-2006); VP Asia-Pacific Region (1997-1998) and North America Region (2005-2006); General Co-Chair of the flagship conference ISCAS 2001, Sydney. He is also a member of IFIP Working Groups 10.2 (Embedded Systems) and WG 10.5 (Design and Engineering of Electronic Systems).

His relaxation activities include amateur geology coupled with desert hiking (powered by his proximity to the San Andreas Fault and Death Valley), photography, skiing, reading and classical music. He lives in Silicon Valley.