About me

After having created my first high growth company in SalesForce, taking it from 8 of us to over 7,500, and then having done two major turn arounds and my own start ups, the chance to create a second high growth company with a business partner and friend was an opportunity too good to pass up. With a passionate, intelligent and diverse team we are leading an nascent industry to what will be one of the most significant this industry.

- Successful experience in launching new start up businesses in New Zealand, Australia and Malaysia

- Provided a positive and visionary leadership focus encompassing performance management and staff development

- Proven experience in succession planning and management

- Effective in coaching and training other employees in their work practices (best practice)

- Sound commercial background and business acumen

- Ability to ensure business plans, budgets and forecasts are timely, accurate and reasonable

- Able to keep a board fully informed of all commercial issues and provide direction against commercial targets

- Solid understanding of technology products, including: LAN/WAN (Novell, Microsoft), PABX (Nortel, Ericsson), ACD (Meridian Max, Ericsson CCM), Disaster Recovery planning, Genesys CTI applications development and integration

- Understand both voice and data technology from implementation to managing change within the organisation

- Challenge current technologies and provide a lateral solution focusing on business needs

- Helped establish a text messaging company

- Strengths in identifying and sourcing appropriate products or services

- Able to leverage a new product/service into a market and monitor its performance

- Understand the cultural makeup of working with various cultures including Australian, American, Pacific Island, Asian and Maori people

Specialties: - Working with companies $3-100M to increase their profitability in a common-sense and lateral way.

- Creating best practice work environments and cultures