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Paul Fletcher

Fletcher is the current minister for major projects, territories and local government in the Liberal government and member for Bradfield. Prior to politics, he was the director of corporate and regulatory affairs for Optus from 2000 to 2008. He was also a senior adviser and chief of staff to former communications minister Richard Alston from 1996 to 2000.

James Coffey

Coffey has worked for Salesforce for the past five years and has been regional manager of strategic alliances and AppExchange GTM since 2014. He is also a mentor at Telstra's startup accelerator, Muru Digital. He is running against Liberal member for North Sydney Trent Zimmerman.

Brent Heber

Heber is a commercial account manager for Sydney solutions provider Storm FX, which services digital entertainment and content creator customers. Storm FX's vendors include Autodesk, Adobe and Veeam. The seat has been held by Liberal member Nickolas Varvaris since 2013.

David van Gogh

Van Gogh has worked as a director in risk and technology project management for Deloitte Australia since 2008. He's up against shadow minister for infrastructure Anthony Albanese in the inner west Sydney seat.

Milan Maksimovic

Maksimovic is the managing director IT consultancy company Hilmax Solutions. The company offers a range of Microsoft services such as SharePoint, SQL Server, BizTalk Server and Dynamics CRM. He is running in the western Sydney seat held by shadow treasurer Chris Bowen.

Mark Ellis

Ellis is a Citrix certified professional whose resume includes engineering positions at Fujitsu, Datacom, IBM, ASG and his current position at the Department of Human Services. He's running in the NSW north coast seat held by National member Kevin Hogan.

Sly Gryphon

Gryphon is a senior consultant for publicly listed applications developer Readify and owner of Brisbane boutique consultancy firm Gryphon Technology. He's running in the western Brisbane seat held by Liberal National member Jane Prentice.

Andrew Broughton

Broughton is the principal owner of Brisbane IT consultancy firm Broughton Consulting. He's running in the seat of Bonner held by Liberal National Party member Ross Vasta.

Kurt Pudniks

Pudniks is the company director and ICT consultant of Digital Physics, a systems engineering and computational science consultancy that covers 3D modelling. He's running in the north Queensland seat held by Liberal National member Warren Entsch.

Tim Watts

Watts has held the Melbourne seat of Gellibrand since 2013. Prior to that, he was the regulatory affairs manager for Telstra. He was also a senior policy adviser to shadow communications minister Stephen Conroy.

Daniel Sova

Sova has co-founded several ICT companies. According to LinkedIn, he is the director of business development for TechForce, a telecommuncations contractor business that works with NBN, Telstra and Optus networks. He's running in the Melbourne seat held by Labor member Joanne Ryan.

David Mulholland

Mulholland is a UX lead for Deloitte Digital, and has worked on key projects for Telstra cloud services, Australian Super and the Department of Health. He's running in the Melbourne seat held by Labor's shadow minister for families and payments and disability reform Jenny Macklin.

Marcus Allan

Allan brings 20 years' experience in infrastructure management, business systems analysis and development to politics. He is the managing director of Blue Wave Consulting, which provides IT consultancy to the Tasmanian private and public sector. He in the seat held by independent Andrew Wilkie since 2010.

Garry Spencer

According to his profile, Spencer works as a management consultant at his own business specialising in IT and telecommunications. He also worked for IBM managing programs in Japan, China, India, Korea, Australia and New Zealand. He's running in the Melbourne seat against Labor member Mark Dreyfus.

Malcolm Turnbull

The prime minister's tech roots date back to the 1990s internet boom. He bought a stake in ISP OzEmail, which went on to become the first Australian tech company to list on the NASDAQ in 1996.

He was appointed head of the Department of Communication in 2013 and introduced the Liberal government’s alternative National Broadband Network based on fibre to the node.

He was also (incorrectly) credited with inventing the internet in Australia by Tony Abbott.