Dave Ryan Email & Phone Number

Essendon North, VIC, AU

• @leisure Planners is a consultancy that provides specialist services in sports, recreation and aquatic facilities and open space planning. They undertake a broad range of projects including strategic and business.
• Conducted literature reviews, summarising background documents, policies and plans.
• Collected information on demographic influences, and participation data for modelling the demand for specific recreation and sporting activities.
• Conducted community and stakeholder engagement including survey design and analysis, market research, and workshops and consultation programs.
• Prepared inventories and site assessments for open space and sports projects.
• Prepared sport, recreation facility feasibility, strategy and business plans

• Coming in to the PEXA business with a set of fresh eyes, I challenged budget and forecast processes, identified multiple opportunities to refresh and refine reporting, and conducted a thorough investigation into.
• Prepared budgets and forecasts for PEXA digital products, implementing enhancements to forecasting models and providing data-driven insights to assist in decision-making.
• Supported Product Managers to track and report product performance relative to KPI’s and provided product insights.
• Conducted pricing analysis for relevant products, including liaising with external providers.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Progressing through a series of roles as a key partner to the C-suite, I played an active role in the growth and ongoing success of the club, providing data analysis, insights and scenario-modelling to facilitate.
• Played a key role in increasing membership number and revenue twofold and achieving record member satisfaction, with the top 4 club supported by 80,000 members and +1M spectators at games each season;
• Facilitated 35% annual increases in revenue via opportunity sizing analysis, informing changes to products including reserved seats and family memberships;
• Identified and introduced tools and systems to support data-led decision making, including a consumer data warehouse, BI/data visualisation tools QlikView, Qlik Sense and Tableau, and fan segmentation platform (YouGov);
• Engineered optimal financial outcome of the Marvel Stadium tenancy offer, analysing the deal and modelling alternatives for senior stakeholders;
• Provided recommendations to the AFL on the development and implementation of a new Privacy Policy as a member of the industry working party.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Joining the fourth oldest football club in the Australian Football League and the official host organization for the iconic AFL Grand Final Breakfast, I built CRM and data analytics capability within the sales team..
• Enabled improved business performance and operational agility, leading a major project documenting and simplifying business processes;
• Trained staff in new business processes and ensured easy accessibility via the business’ CRM;
• Explored long-term industry solution for a CRM across all clubs as a partner to the Australia Football League.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Managing a customer database of 20,000 IT resellers, my key objective was to ensure data was both up to date and accurate, producing reports that provided insights and supported decision making across sales pipelines.
• Led the integration of Compaq’s database following acquisition by HP, ensuring consistency of purchasing and inventory analysis and reporting throughout the transition;
• Maintained data within 1% accuracy, learning and applying best practice multinational standards to support stakeholder decision making.

London, England, United Kingdom

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Whyalla And Newcastle