Brad Couper Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

After the successful sale of the TriBuild Construction Management Software, we have taken some investment positions in pre-IPO companies.

Sydney, Australia

I have joined the board of Sydney based, globally expanding, innovative events customer engagement platform, Audience Republic.Working alongside the founder and CEO Jared Kristensen and his board of directors, I will be helping them plan and execute on their international growth and expansion strategies, as well as advising on the transition into a SaaS model.Audience Republic powers the marketing for music festivals and concerts, helping them amplify word-of-mouth in order to sell more tickets, and gain insights to understand and grow their audience.Since 2015 Audience Republic has been on a mission to transform how the music industry secures sales, and utilizes their data. By leveraging word-of-mouth, doubling down on loyalty and giving customers ownership over their data Audience Republic has helped clients across Australia, NZ, Europe and North America transform how they approach marketing in the music industry. Customers include festivals like Electric Gardens, Beyond the Valley, Pitch Festival, Lost Paradise, Days Like This, Mountain Sounds, Subsonic, Rhythm and Vines. And concerts featuring artists like Chance the Rapper, Schoolboy Q, Justin Bieber, Rufus.https://audiencerepublic.com/

Sydney, Australia

Advisor to the fast growing, globally expanding, Australian based software company for construction sub-contractors - Assignar.Working alongside Founder & CEO Sean McCreanor, the Board of Directors, and the Executive Team, I’m supporting the the team as they focus on growth and expansion strategies in order to consolidate Assignar's market leadership position in Australia, and accelerate their emergence into Europe and North America.The Assignar team have proven there is a huge demand for their construction tech operations solution across many global markets. I’m really excited to be able to use my previous growth and expansion phase software experience to advise Assignar on how best to deliver on their vision to become the operations platform of choice for construction sub-contractors globally.Assignar is poised to ride a global wave of modernisation within construction operations as contracting businesses strive to stay relevant and compete with those who are already adopting technology and are enjoying the efficiency driven productivity gains and cost savings that delivers.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Advising the CEO of Vonigo as they scale their business, gearing for growth and building a sustainable international software business.The Vonigo team are on a mission to bring high quality business operations to small and medium home service businesses and franchise groups with their comprehensive SaaS platform and mobile app.A great team, an impressive product solving real business needs - they are achieving rapid growth through North America and are expanding well into other markets.

Boulder, Colorado And Sydney, Australia

Exit via sale to construction industry icons - McCormick Systems.As a construction technology company, TriBuild, Inc. was established with the goal of solving complex, often labor intensive workflow challenges for contractors.TriBuild focuses on software-as-a-service solutions for the global commercial construction industry in the construction management phase.

Sydney, Australia

Working with the KPMG High Growth Ventures team on growth strategies for Australian startup and scale-up companies, facilitating events and workshops with a focus on international expansion for high growth tech businesses.https://home.kpmg.com/au/en/home/services/enterprise/high-growth-ventures.html

Boulder, Colorado, Usa And Brisbane, Australia

Brad was the CEO and Director for the global operations of Australian SaaS software business simPRO Software, leaders in cloud based software for trade contractor and construction workflow, for over 5 years.* Bootstrapped to operations in 5 countries* Completed $40m capital raising (Australia's largest private market software raise of 2016)* Grew recurring revenue over 1,000% in 5 years* Grew team from 45 - 250* Acquired two SaaS businessesBrad led the international growth phase of simPRO from small Aussie startup in Brisbane, to staffed offices in the UK, US, and New Zealand, and headed up the 2016 A$40m minority capital raising from US growth equity firm Level Equity.The 2016 capital raising was the biggest of the year for an Australian software business, and in the process created 7 new multi millionaires in Brisbane from the secondary liquidity used to buy out some existing shareholders.During his time as CEO, Brad led the acquisition of two other companies operating in a related SaaS software space:• Gem Accounts• simTRACBrad expanded out the solution offering to move simPRO Software to be the market leader in trade contractor job management software for managing construction, service, and maintenance workflows. simPRO helped make trade contractors at all stages of the construction cycle more productive and more profitable by developing, delivering and supporting a suite of leading edge cloud based and mobile based software solutions for SME and Mid-market construction businesses.simPRO exited to a Private Equity group for more than $500 million in 2020.

London, United Kingdom

Director of simPRO Software (UK) Ltd.

Brisbane, Australia

Managing the Marketing, Sales and Product Development teams for the simPRO Software range of products.Brad focuses on the strategic alignment of the Product > Marketing > Sales processes to allow faster responses to client needs and trends in the software industry for the construction speciality trades. Including the development of fully aligned marketing & sales campaigns based on the direction of product development.Heavily focussed on delivering mobility solutions in for our client base to serve the needs of the field service industry, including development within the environment of:- Digital Pens - Tablets (cross platform)- Smart Phones (cross platform)- Ultra Mobile (ruggedised & industry specific devices)

London, United Kingdom

I established the UK operation and served as director and Country Manager for simPRO Software, the Australian based job and service management software solution for the service industry. .The simPRO product range has solutions for small, medium and large businesses delivering projects and services within the `Trade Services Industry' - service sectors such as electrical contractors, mechanical services, HVAC, gas engineers etc. I established simPRO in the UK in late 2009, and grew the business to include direct sales, resellers and partners and grew the business to include distributors and partners (both sales & development) throughout the UK and Europe.Returned to Australia in August 2011 to take over the Marketing, Sales and Product Development direction for the company.

Brisbane, Australia

I was a Director of simTRAC until I led the acquisition by The simPRO Group in November 2013: http://bit.ly/1cBY9Ia simTRAC is now a fully integrated product in the simPRO suite of products.

Sydney, Australia

Datateq was a pioneer and provider of digital pen & paper systems specialising in real time forms, document management and business process automation for field based organisations.We solved the problem of field workers (primarily construction workers and field speciality trades in service and maintenance) get paperwork and data from the field back to the office in seconds, not hours or days as was common at the time prior to the advent of smart phones.Achievements• Founded company• Defined and drove product development that enabled us to begin selling within 3 months of start up.• Developed and grew distribution channels• Closed first full year out at $500,000 ARRBusiness acquired by simPRO where I joined the simPRO team and opened the UK office.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Pacific Communications is a specialist CCTV consulting and wholesaling company and is part of the iconic Australian company Hills Industries with sales in excess of $1.2 billion. Responsibilities• National Corporate Accounts Manager for corporate and government, primarily responsible for consulting and securing sales of high end, large scale digital security solutions to the corporate and government sector.• Deliver sales results measured on a monthly and annual target.• Focus on sales of high end IP CCTV products from the DVTel and AXIS range of products.Achievements• Consistantly exceeded sales targets.• Won $3million+ contract for the next generation of Sydney trains.• Developed new client relationship structure to the business unit to meet individual clients’ needs which resulted in greater repeat sales from existing clients.

Shanghai, China

SinoMedia is China’s leading and largest English business publishing company producing business information for the Fortune 500, multi-nationals and all other foreign companies dealing with China. titles includes The China Economic Review, and EURObiz.During my time here I directly sold advertising for several English language publications in China, led a team of 10 full time account executives, and worked on the development of new products.Revenue Growth• Attained over quota sales results for all products across the team• Developed complete sales and marketing program for several core business sectors, which grew year on year at 200%• Led new cross functional team on product I developed and hit 135% of targeted revenue in first publicationProduct & Operations Enhancement• Developed new product "China Hotels Guide" that well exceeded revenue target, and became the foundation for future product ranges targeting the MICE market and business travel both in print and online• Developed third party products for luxury hotel brands that cemented long term relationships, and ongoing revenue streams

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

CR Kennedy is Australia’s largest specialist importer and distributor of high tech optical equipment with an annual turnover in excess of A$130million.Responsibilities• Focus on high end CCTV sales with flag ship Dallmeier product line.• Develop new business relationships to grow the market share in existing and new market sectors. • Manage existing national key clients such as Coles Myer, Australia Post, Government, and Military.• Develop marketing & sales strategies across the country for events & campaigns.Achievements• Exceeded sales targets.• Spearheaded the development of new business opportunities that led to new reseller relationships that won us multimillion dollar projects with major national clients such as McDonald’s Australia, Coles and Shell.• Developed sales strategies including a strategy for growing sales from alliance partner resellers that resulted in 30% sales growth year on year for existing customers.• Developed and implemented CRM program for client development and retention.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Onity is the world’s leading electronic locking and security provider specialising in the accommodation market and is owned by the public giant United Technologies Company.Responsibilities• Oversee all sales and business development functions, including new product rollouts, key account management, customer relationship development and order fulfilment.• Achieve quarterly sales targets.• Develop new market sectors.Achievements • Met and exceeded all sales targets.• Secured contracts with several of the world’s largest hotel operators.• Developed previously unconsidered market that generated in excess of $1 million in sales.

Responsibilities• Manage day to day operations of business.• Improve business flow and reduce project cycle time.Achievements• Reduced `incomplete’ jobs by 80% within 6 months.• Massively increased cash flow by reducing project commencement to project invoicing cycle by 25% (reduced cycle from 4 to 3 months). • Reduced inaccessible capital levels by developing efficient ordering and stock control systems that delivered just in time stock control.• Developed and implemented CRM program for client development and retention.• Promoted to Sales Manager – Asia and the Pacific

Sydney, Australia

Many and varied roles in operations.