HOSTING HOSPITALITY Gold Coast Business News | July 2009 Sascha Voevodin has tried and tested the entrepreneurial process. Second time around, he believes he’s got it right. His company Votech Industries has created the Net Retriever software which provides instant compatibility between hardware and software platforms in the hospitality industry. The 28-year-old advises fellow entrepreneurs to sacrifice their free time in pursuit of success. What inspired you to start up your company? This is actually my second company. The first one I started when I was 18 to help out another small company that needed someone to install and maintain [...]

MEDIA RELEASE Sydney, Australia, August 24, 2007 NetComm, a leading Australian provider of communications products and solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with Votech Industries, a Queensland based support organisation, to compliment and strengthen their infrastructure offering. The relationship offers NetComm the ability to bundle in room support services to infrastructure division, expanding the NetComm offering from the hardware element that provides ADSL and internet access into hotel rooms, through full integration with a sites PMS and now in room support for hotel guests between 7am and 11pm AEST. “We welcome this partnership as we see that this now allows [...]

BELIEVE IN THE PRODUCT FIRST Gold Coast Bulletin | October 2006 People need dedication and perseverance to start a business, says Alex Voevodin from IT company Votech. The company won the Emerging Business category of the September Gold Coast Business Excellence Awards. Based in Surfers Paradise, it was formed in 2004 by Alex Voevodin to provide hardware, software and technical support to the hospitality industry. Mr Voevodin said he started the business with the encouragement of his wife and business advisers. “Everyone has ideas about what would make a great product or service, but most people let that idea slip [...]

THE FUTURE? NO PROBLEM Gold Coast Bulletin | March 2005 Alex Voevodin became a computer expert as a child, helping his friends with computer games. But he doesn’t concentrate on just games anymore. Now at 25, Alex is inventing software to attack computer problems that emerge as technology evolves. Rather than fighting current problems like viruses, Alex wants to concentrate on problems that haven’t begun yet. He recently travelled to Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan to research new hardware systems. And now he hopes to grow his fledgling IT business from a Surfers Paradise home office to a global [...]