Marcello La RosaCo Founder

Australia - Greater Melbourne Area

I am the CEO and Co-Founder of Apromore, a scale-up software company span out of the University of Melbourne. With Apromore, we aim at democratizing process mining to help organisations maximize value from their business processes, using data. Apromore is the result of over ten years of research and innovation at the University of Melbourne and several other research labs in Australia and Europe, leading to significant uptake in practice.

I am also a part-time professor of process mining with the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne, where I lead the BPM Team. In the past, I served as the Deputy Head of School for Engagement (2018-20) and led the Information Systems Group (2018-21).

Before joining the University of Melbourne, I was a professor of Information Systems at the Queensland University of Technology, where I led the BPM Discipline (2016-17) and served as the Academic Director for corporate engagements (2012-17). I was also the recipient of an IS Research Fellowship from the University of Liechtenstein (2012-14) and held a part-time Principal Researcher position at NICTA, later Data61 (2012-15).

I have published over 150 papers on process mining and related topics. My research has attracted nine awards and over AUD 25M in research income, much of this through competitive grant schemes. For my research, I have been named Australia’s Field Leader for Information Systems by The Australian, in their 2020 Research report.

I have taught BPM and process mining to thousands of practitioners and students in Australia and overseas for nearly 20 years. Based on this experience, I co-authored the textbook "Fundamentals of Business Process Management" (Springer, 2nd edition), which is used in over 250 universities worldwide and has been translated to five languages. I also led the development of a MOOC series on BPM which has attracted over 25,000 participants.