Tickets.com Relocates Asia-Pacific Operations to University of Wollongong’s Innovation Campus

Tickets.com's Asia-Pacific offices will be relocating to The University of Wollongong’s research and commercial precinct, Innovation Campus, and will be become the newest tenant at its iC Enterprise 1 commercial building.

The move will take our HQ from the southern Sydney suburb of Miranda to the Innovation Campus in mid-2011. The move will add 16 jobs to the Illawarra economy immediately and further jobs over the next three years.

Scheduled for completion in mid-2011, iC Enterprise 1 is a $40 million A Grade commercial building featuring a 4.5 Star NABERS (National Australian Built Environment Rating System) rating, state-of-the-art design and large floor plates of up to 2,600sqm.

David Borg, Tickets.com’s General Manager for Asia Pacific, selected the Innovation Campus following an extensive search for new premises covering south-west and southern Sydney and the Illawarra regions.

Tickets.com supports a large range of sports and entertainment clients across Australia and Asia-Pacific so access to high-speed data links was critical in our search for new premises. The Innovation Campus offers the ideal combination of quality commercial space, excellent IT infrastructure, value for money, and the unique opportunity to collaborate with the University of Wollongong on technology and recruitment initiatives.

Significantly, Tickets.com is the first Sydney-based company to relocate to the Innovation Campus.

About Innovation Campus
The University of Wollongong’s Innovation Campus is a 33 hectare research and commercial precinct in North Wollongong. Innovation Campus aims to drive partnerships and collaboration between the research and business communities by co-locating commercial and research organisations in state-of-the-art facilities. It currently houses the Sydney Business School, Australian Institute of Innovative Materials, Institute of Transnational and Maritime Security, the University of Wollongong’s Digital Media Facility, and a number of commercial tenants. Wollongong is Australia’s eighth largest city, located 80km south of the Sydney CBD and one hour from Sydney International Airport. www.innovationcampus.com.au

General Manager Has A Close Shave

David Borg, the Asia Pacific General Manager at Tickets.com will be participating in the World’s Greatest Shave to raise money for the Leukaemia Foundation. Since 1998, World’s Greatest Shave has raised in excess of $106 million and the event is the Foundations biggest source of income.

Every hour, someone in Australia is diagnosed with leukaemia, lymphoma or myeloma. Every two hours, someone dies from one of these blood cancers. The money raised is used by the Leukaemia Foundation to fund services to support patients and families living with leukaemias, lymphomas, myeloma and related blood disorders. All services are free! Fundraising efforts also fund blood cancer research to find better treatments and cures.

David is aiming to raise $5,000 so if you can help, please use the link above to make a donation directly to the cause. You can also follow him on Facebook at ProVenue APAC to see updates and to view pictures of David after the shave.

David’s Great Shave will occur on the 30th March.

Tickets.com as Exclusive Sponsor for the 2010 NARPACA Conference

NARPACA President Destry Puia is pleased to announce Tickets.com as the exclusive sponsor for the 2010 NARPACA Conference. “Tickets.com have been long time supporters of the performing arts industry and NARPACA is proud to welcome Tickets.com as our exclusive sponsor. David Borg and his team have been the Platinum supporters of the NARPACA Ticketing Professionals Conference and this additional support further highlights Tickets.com’s commitment to supporting the development of venues” said Mr Puia.

Tickets.com General manager David Borg said “Tickets.com is proud to support the 2010 NARPACA Conference. Delegates will get to see an exclusive preview of some of the exciting developments from Tickets.com and an insight into new industry developments”.

The 2010 NARPACA Conference will commence with a Welcome Delegates Cocktail Party at 6pm Wednesday 9th June 2010 to be held at Hotel Bravo 455 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley.