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Melbourne, VIC, AU

Melbourne, AU

Tasked to oversee an eight-figure portfolio of Australian company investments, including the development of new investment strategies and business cases to add to the Carsales portfolio and deliver strong growth in a mature market, including the evaluation, early-stage investment and development of global partnerships to pursue new cutting-edge EV battery.

Richmond, VIC, AU

Stewarded Carsales’ investment in a small inspection business acquisition, before being appointed as CCO and CEO to scale the organisation into a national concern and integrate it into the Carsales group, leading an extended team of ~60 and serving as member of the Board of Directors.During this time, I 10x the business from 6 figures to 8 figures of.

Melbourne, AU

Integration role, bringing several start-ups into the Carsales fold and drive a digitally seamless CX through payments integration across the Carsales network. This role delivered and integrated a first-to-market digital payments solution into Carsales as the first to place a vehicle transaction on the New Payments Platform (NPP), while successfully.

Melbourne, AU

Tapped to drive greenfield opportunities for growth of the consumer business, including non-auto revenue assets, including bicycles, boats and caravans. During this time, I doubled consumer arm revenue, delivered significant growth in ARPU with reductions in time to sell through the launch of a concierge product to handle end-to-end sale including improved.

Melbourne, AU

Leading consumer innovation through commercial partnerships, investments and integration across the Carsales network. - Non-Executive Director - Redbook Inspect P/L- Board Member (alt) - Assembly Payments

Melbourne, AU

Strategic and Commercial head for all Carsales Consumers (Buyers, Sellers and Researchers). Responsible for setting strategic priorities, building commercial partnerships, investments and acquisitions, product guidance, performance oversight, digital continuity, big-data analysis, budgeting and project development. Commercial and competitive landscape.

Melbourne, AU

Strategic and Commercial leadership of the near $70M Private revenue stream. Responsible for setting strategic priorities, product guidance, performance oversight, personnel management, budgeting and project development.Commercial and competitive landscape assessment with a focus on new business initiatives.carsales.com Ltd. is a publicly owned ASX100.

Melbourne, AU

Engaged to drive change - enticing dealerships out of print-heavy marketing approaches and onto Carsales’ digital platforms. During this time, we delivered double-digit revenue and profit growth and established the top two websites in the market by transitioning and rebranding the sites to align with the Carsales business.

Melbourne, AU

Management of National Sales and BDM team responsible for non-automotive clients.Overseeing Dealer relationships.

Melbourne, AU

Business Development for Marine and Industry Websites. Looking after Victorian, South/West/North Australian and International Business.Consistently a high achiever with multiple sales awards over 3 years.Company wide highest sales achiever awarded in third year.

Co-founded YellowFin to help bring innovative products to market and launch new businesses into Australia.

Melbourne, AU

Founded a start-up with an innovative new SMS marketing SAAS platform offering low-cost, effective marketing for delivery of SMS-based campaigns - reducing barriers to entry and setup.

Sydney, NSW, AU

Development of materials handling equipment business. Individual clients between $20,000 and $2M.Achieved largest non-fleet deal in the companies history in first 2 months of role.

Digital design startup. Saw enormous traffic and sales growth through socially driven marketing. Business sold in 2006 to an existing graphic design firm.

West Perth, Western Australia, AU

Senior leader acting as a telecommunications consultant to a wide variety of SME and corporate clients. Responsible for liaising on all facets of a companies telco requirements with a desire to reduce costs and improve efficiencies.

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Applied Science In Computing And Advanced Technologies. Business Marketing

Dip. Bus Marketing, Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services