Tony Benson Email & Phone Number

Sydney, NSW, AU

Sydney, Australia

CK Stores is a technology driven company in ecommerce delivering products and services to the Australian market. My role is high level thought leadership, utilise the best research and technology whilst motivating our team to be a leading provider of tech in Australia Overall responsibility for innovation and technology development, developing our teams.

Impact Systems partnered with many rural and regional technology resellers. Impact recognised the tech savvy community that run regional Australia. I was the new business champion, using my skills and connections in the rural community to foster B2B relationships.

Yennora Wool Store

Elders is Australia’s premiere rural service provider and an iconic international brand. Although back to basics for me, i enjoyed talking to wool growers, appraising wool, and staying in contact with industry friends.

Sydney, Australia

• AuctionsPlus is a service provider offering real-time Agricultural Internet auctions. I led several teams on research and development projects, team leadership of the market operations team. I reported to the.
• Leadership of a team of 6 market operations controllers. Oversaw the daily operations including meeting with team leaders, auditing activities, weekly collaboration sessions, setting priority tasks and goals.
• Leadership of a team of 8 made up of executive, developers, and staff to develop an entirely new online livestock system and assessment entry delivered in 2014.
• Leadership of the wool auction development team of 4. I delivered an experimental wool selling platform to research the viability of electronic wool auctions. This research transformed into a recess ‘feature sale’.
• Chair the Arbitration CommitteeChair of the Wool Committee. Consisting of industry stakeholders, a director and staff the committee was set up to consult us on industry requirements for our wool agenda.
• Deliver annual budgets, business reporting, manage contractual relationships

• Wooltrade had a strong focus on using technology to trade wool. Using the internet and an electronic offer board was revolutionary technology for its time. I was part of the success story that let Wooltrade enable.
• Leading of a team of 4 technical and operations staff. Oversaw the daily operations including, weekly routines, technical development, and wool sales.
• Responsible for growth in both wool volume offered and sales.
• Manage contractor relationships involving IT platform development and implementation
• Project Manager for business relocation from WA to the eastern states
• Project Manager for business integration and merger with AuctionsPlus

AWEX provides services and functions to assist the wool trade in Australia. My role was to build new business with established and new clients and work within the industry policy framework. I managed the electronic trading platform E2, formerly known as Eclipse and reported to the CEO, Mark Grave. Responsibilities: Client contact and relationship.

Adelaide, Australia

AAs a senior dealer my role was to execute client orders into the Futures Market. As business support manager at Elders, I was accountable for sales whilst building relationships with the internal network. I reported to the Trading Manager.Responsibilities: Order execution and order book management Communicate futures market advice, concepts and rules to.

Lane Cove

I cut my teeth at AWEX regarding the wool industry. I managed the operations of Eclipse, One of the earliest online trading systems in Australia for Wool. Eclipse was a new concept and paved the way for future systems. I gained an understanding and appreciation of standards, the requirements for running auctions, market reporting and the wool industry..

Rg 146

Regulatory Guide 146 Licensing compliant

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Systems Agriculture