Aaron Bilstrom Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Nsw, Au

North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

The Early Start Discovery Space is a dedicated children’s museum on the University of Wollongong campus. It provides interactive experiences, stimulating educational programs and learn-through-play activities for children aged birth to 10 years and their families.

Sydney, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Innovation: Led exploration of insurtech and innovation partnership opportunities, including Stone & Chalk’s Insurtech program, Insurtech Australia sponsorship and a series of thought leadership publications addressing the future nature of work, healthcare and insurance, and the implications. Developed business line strategy for industry proposition including customer value proposition, risk evaluation and mitigation, and implementation capability gap analysis.

Sydney, Australia

Strategic leadership: Responsible for identifying, evaluating and formulating detailed strategic plans and financial models for Horizon 2 and 3 strategic initiatives, including Connected Car (consumer telematics suite of services), Thrifty Straight to Car (technology enabled business and consumer expedited rental services), EV fast charging network, and vehicle subscription model (future of car ownership). Responsible for IAG engagement and development of negotiating position and strategy for potential NRMA-IAG Connected Car JV and associated consumer offering. Reporting to the EGM of Motoring, regularly prepared board and ELT presentations for key strategic initiatives as well as led associated steering committees and project teams.

Sydney, Australia

Lean start-up: Formulated strategy and led project realisation of Commercial Safe Fleet app (multi-market and multi-branded) from inception to contract negotiation, including strategic roadmap, project funding, supplier tenders, supplier selection, contract drafting, business design documentation, marketing, and securing key stakeholders and leading a network of staff. Merger & Acquisitions: Led or supported several potential and realised acquisitions and partnerships including MTAI, NTI/Lumley heavy motor fleet, cyber & data, lenders mortgage insurance, and strata offerings. Responsibilities included strategic rationale and alignment, benefit and cost realisation estimates, valuation scenarios, and offer price recommendation. Portfolio management: Led development and implementation of portfolio management tool for $1.5B Commercial Insurance portfolio of more than 30 products, evaluating the growth and profit potential, market share, risk appetite and return on risk-based capital to support strategic direction setting (grow, harvest, improve, innovate or exit).

Sydney, Australia

Lean start-up: Following MBO, assumed lead for Alba Capital strategy and operations, ranging from technology/IT solutions to marketing and branding. Led and managed formulation, design and transition of IT systems platform, and management and execution of Alba Capital corporate branding and marketing across all mediums, including original design development of company brand identity.Business development: Responsible for fostering new long-term property development joint venture partnerships through the proposition of technically innovative precincts, facilities and relationships in NSW and ACT. Led the identification and securing of potential tenants for Alba’s JV university technology parks and the development of university propositions for tenants, including PicoFab, Peregrine Semiconductor, Australian Government Solicitors, and Toga, amongst others. Account management: Relationship manager for company’s most significant client, The Australian National University (ANU), which involved significant engagement with leading researchers and academics. Led company sales and marketing efforts for the Innovation Campus (iC) development at the University of Wollongong. Role required the formulation, technical development, negotiation and incubation of innovative property-based solutions.

Sydney, Australia

Baulderstone Capital Solutions Division became Alba Capital Partners via MBO

Sydney, Australia

Market dynamics: Managed company and client teams in Jakarta and Manila during 3-month engagement to develop estimates of market size and growth potential for a global transportation and logistics company. Deliverables included market size, growth and trends for international and domestic logistics’ industries developed through extensive research and government and industry interviews.Retail strategy: Co-managed company and client teams in Manila and Tokyo during a 2-month engagement to develop a retail strategy and footprint plan for a global transportation and logistics company. Deliverables included market size, growth and trends, competitive analysis, market research, customer segments profiling (consumers & SMEs), retail concept development, retail network footprint modelling, coordinated retail products and promotions, and acquisition target identification and valuation. Client proceeded with pilot implementation of a personally developed concept, with plans for nine installations in total.Merger & Acquisitions: Conducted due diligence for private equity acquisitions (CVC, Catalyst, Ironbridge), analysed strategic issues, developed and presented client presentations for companies in financial services, technology products and services, and retail industries.

Portland, Oregon Area

Account management: Technical manager for U.S. National Laboratory relationships (Lawrence Livermore, Sandia, Los Alamos, and Idaho Engineering & Environmental).R&D applications: Co-authored reports with U.S. National Laboratory scientists on the applicability of laboratory technologies to environmental challenges, including two reports on robotics technologies applicability to the recovery and remediation of abandoned chemical weapons, and multiple reports on the Japanese market for environmental technologies and services and the operation, management, and funding of U.S. National Laboratories. Performed market research and co-authored business proposals on select technologies including portable GC/MS systems and servo motors.

Zürich Area, Switzerland

Supply Chain optimisation: Assisted key parts supplier in identifying and implementing production measurement and WIP management systems that led to a greater than 50% reduction in throughput times of select parts.

Portland, Oregon Area

Fulfilled range of responsibilities related to semiconductor manufacturing equipment operations within Intel microprocessor facilities including supplier management, stakeholder management, equipment evaluation and improvement, and asset procurement and delivery.Capital management: Managed forecast, order, and delivery issues >$250m for semiconductor manufacturing equipment supplier (Applied Materials) account. Interfaced and negotiated with supplier and Intel microprocessor manufacturing sites located worldwide. Negotiated transaction that saved Intel $1.5m and met international government purchase agreement.Technology optimisation: Co-led two teams responsible for accelerated semiconductor equipment production capability improvement. Efforts resulted in >200% HDP production capability improvement in 10 weeks that led to >$80m of savings in capital expenditure avoidance. Managed CMP yield task force and equipment reliability projects resulting in a 70% improvement in yield and 75% decrease in equipment downtime in 28 weeks. Managed equipment engineering decisions and day-to-day operations, directing technicians and supplier resources to maintain 70% equipment utilisation versus <30% baseline performance.

Outside 23 Wards, Tokyo, Japan

Market dynamics: Researched Japanese PC and semiconductor market data from two technology symposiums and presented findings to senior leadership.

Company Directors Course

New Business Opportunities And Startups, Distinction

Level One Coach Training

Mechanical Engineering

Thesis: Improving Supplier Production Efficiency Through Focused Data Feedback & Simulation

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Leaders for Manufacturing Fellow: awarded full scholarship to pursue dual-degree program

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Industrial Engineering

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Economics

1995 Editor-in-Chief of the Stanford Quad, the University yearbook