David James Email & Phone Number

Sydney, NSW, AU

Sydney, Australia

Juggle Street is a real-time, on demand job platform designed to address multiple “family jobs” required during the years of daycare, primary school & high school. Juggle Street is unlocking a new, underutilized pool of local carers who are keen to provide services such as babysitting, before & after school care, nannying, au pair and home tutoring. Juggle.

Sydney Area, Australia

In February 2013 following 7 very successful years as CEO & Director I transition into the role of Non-executive Director. I remained actively involved on the board as a major shareholder until Brasserie Bread was acquired by Private Equity in September 2018...it was one hell of a journey!

Sydney, Australia

In 2005 I bought into Brasserie Bread, a small Sydney based artisan bread producer. I conceived and managed the development of the Bread Board™, a technology platform that has revolutionized the artisan bread industry. I was responsible for building the company’s brand and community of “raving fans” with an innovative mix of real-world activities and.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Specialty's was acquired by a multi-billion dollar global food corporation in December 2013.
• In February 2005 I stepped down as VP Sales & Marketing at Specialty’s in San Francisco to return home to Sydney. I remained actively involved on the Specialty’s board as a non-executive director for nearly 9 years.
• During this time Specialty’s expanded to over 50 stores in 7 cities across the US and annual revenue surpassed US$100M. Specialty’s is unique in the retail food industry with more than 50% of its revenue derived online.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Following the sale of my company SandwichDirect.Com to Specialty’s, I worked hand-in-hand with the Specialty's CEO to manage the merger process. I was responsible for the integration of SandwichDirect's technology.
• This "clicks & bricks" merger proved an overwhelming success, catering sales improved by 40%, OTC sales increased by 20%, and Store Level Contribution nearly doubled to 22%.
• I was responsible for building Specialty's first board of directors and closed the company’s first private equity rising in January 2005.

San Francisco Bay Area

• As CEO I developed the business plan whilst in Silicon Valley, then raised the private equity to launch SandwichDirect.Com in Australia as “proof of concept”.
• In 1999 I successfully launched SandwichDirect.Com in North Sydney and then relocated myself and the company to San Francisco in 2000.
• I negotiated a technology licensing agreement with a national food service company resulting in the launch of SandwichDirect.Com at the head office campus of EA Sports, Inc. in Silicon Valley.
• I raised several rounds of private equity in the US during some of the toughest capital markets, including 9/11 and the Dot.Com crash.
• In 2002 I launched SandwichDirect.Com as a standalone concept in downtown San Francisco, and attracted several high profile business people to join the company’s board of directors.
• In May 2003 I successfully completed the sale/merger of the company to Specialty’s Café & Bakery, Inc., a small retail café & bakery chain based in San Francisco.

Sydney, Australia

• Hot Key was a self-funded company operating as a "virtual subsidiary" for international IT manufacturers seeking entry into the Australian/NZ retail market. Through its commitment to high profile PR campaigns.
• The first product distributed was an in-house developed software product called RamGate™, a Windows “crash protection” PC utility. I designed the RamGate™ retail packaging and implemented a national retail distribution.
• RamGate™ won the Australian Software of the Year Award and was sponsored by Austrade to exhibit at CeBit’96 in Germany. Subsequently I negotiated RamGate™ distribution and licensing agreements in the US, UK and Europe.

Sydney

• I established TeleKNX in partnership with a Melbourne based company to distribute a range of ISDN Remote LAN Access products.
• Competing with low-end CISCO and 3Com routers the KNX range was unique at the time for being the only PC based ISDN router. I developed a national distribution strategy and implemented VAR and Channel Marketing programs.

Sydney, Australia

• I established PacRim in partnership with the Trade Wind Group, Australia's leading supplier of financial trading desks (voice & data). PacRim was launched in advance of the Australian Government’s deregulation of the.
• PacRim was Australia’s first telecommunications VAR, offering end-to-end voice & data services to the financial community in direct competition with Telstra and Optus. Funded by internal revenue growth the PacRim.
• Forming strategic alliances with overseas carriers I established POP's in New Zealand, London, Singapore, Hong Kong and New York. I also negotiated the exclusive rights to a Tandem based message broadcast system from.
• In 1993 PacRim sold 25% of the company to Telstra, their first equity investment in a competitive VAR. Telstra later moved to full control of the company.

Sydney, Australia

• A US based manufacturer, Timeplex was the leading worldwide supplier of voice & data multiplexers (bandwidth managers) before the advent of routers.
• I was transferred from Timeplex Limited UK to help start-up the Australian operation and was responsible for a team of Sales Executives and Technical Support staff.
• I consistently exceed company budgets in three consecutive years growing revenue as follows: $2M, $6M, $12M.

London, United Kingdom

• The year I graduated from University coincided with the deregulation of the UK telecommunications industry and I took up a trainee sales position with a private company selling PABX systems to SMEs. I always exceeded.
• In September 1987 I moved into the voice & data networking industry with Timeplex, selling to the financial markets/dealing rooms in the City of London.