We are a hard working and likeable management couple with experience in holiday park management, business management, marketing, advertising, the movie industry, aged care and teaching. Demonstrated ability to adapt to new challenges and improve revenues in underperforming businesses. Motivated to deliver exceptional customer service proven to result in successful business outcomes. Have the ability to inspire and motivate people to exceed their abilities and management’s expectations. We both have a likeable personality with the ability to win over the trust of people at all levels of business experience. In our spare time we enjoy hiking, travelling, photography, food and wine.We love being involved in making people’s holidays special. We have proved to ourselves and our stakeholders that we are capable of managing a holiday park and growing revenues beyond expectations and are now looking to contribute our experience, skills and expertise in a new venture where we can work with people who are passionate about growing a business through exceptional customer service and new marketing initiatives.

Small Business Mentoring Service is an incorporated not-for-profit association. It has been in existence since 1986 and have more than 100 Mentors, who have the skill and experience to help small businesses. I am one of the key members of the NSW team and we commenced our operations by providing the mentoring service the the Small Business Commissioner's Small Biz Bus program. That program delivered mentoring services to various small business owners in metropolitan and regional NSW.

ProActive Media provides a range of marketing services to small and medium sized businesses. We put our advertising and marketing skills and experience to good use by assisting small business owners to create effective advertising campaigns that get the results they want and need from their tight advertising budgets. Many advertising agencies concentrate on big corporations with massive advertising budgets, leaving small business owners to figure out how to best advertise their products and services. Advertising is costly, and small business owners cannot waste money on advertising that does not hit the target and get results. Creating cost-effective advertising campaigns is one of the toughest challenges that most small business owners face. Advertising is an all-encompassing task that requires experience and creative skills to determine what type of advertising and message will work best for what is being sold. Confusing the matter even more is that small business owners are bombarded daily by advertising salespeople, each with the ‘greatest offer.’ Capitalizing on our advertising, marketing and business experience, we can create specialised advertising campaigns for small business clients that will directly reach their target market, stay within their budget and get the results they want.Our services include: - Business Mentoring - Advertising creative and production services - Content creation based on ”your business story” - Digital Marketing and Social Media

I do some not-for-profit work for Grow Movement where I mentors business owners in Rwanda, andI am a Team Leader for a group of volunteer consultants based in Australia and New Zealand who are working on project #Uganda600.

Coaching and Mentoring Australia through its executive coaching program is one of the most trusted names for various types of coaching in Australia. I am one of their business coaches and mentors specialising in marketing and advertising.

Cinevation was a local cinema advertising company that delivered innovative media opportunities for local marketers and advertisers, using both on-screen and in-foyer media for the advertising. These new opportunities enhance advertising effectiveness and cost efficiency using digital local on-screen advertising and in-foyer branding.Cinevation has changed the way local cinema advertising and in-foyer promotions are produced and packaged. To date most local cinema advertisers have only had the opportunity to buy a static slide advertising campaign. We believe that creativity is essential to effectively communicate a product or service message and we understand that local clients want value for their advertising dollar. Through our in-house advertising production skills we have the ability to create exciting digitally animated commercials for our clients at a fraction of the normal cost. These commercials are screened via new digital projectors onto the cinema screens.

The focus of my role now was to manage the relationship between Val Morgan and all cinema exhibitors, specifically negotiating new agreements on improved financial terms, and managing all communications and financial information provided to the more than 300 cinema exhibitors in Australia and New Zealand.In addition I was also tasked with closing the loss-making Slide Division and manage the "run-outs" of that division.Key achievements:Renegotiated all agreements on much improved commercial terms.Developed and managed a positive relationship between Val Morgan, the ACCC and the cinema exhibitors.Developed a new financial reporting system that provides real time revenue and payment information to the exhibitors.Gained experience in the Management, HR and Legal issues involved in reducing a workforce from 250 people to 50.Developed a strategic plan that re-engineered the business and managed that through to a profitable position.Sold the US operation.Closed the Singapore and Hong Kong businesses.Worked closely with the management team in the other countries to grow revenue and cut costs to deliver increased profits to the group.Managed the due diligence process when Val Morgan Cinema Network was sold to Hoyts, Greater Union, and Village.Took on the responsibility of putting together the monthly board packs and managed the commercial issues raised at the board meetings.

The Chairman of Val Morgan invited me in 2000 to join the Company at its Head Office in Sydney as International Marketing and Business Development Director. My brief was to develop strategic marketing plans for the group companies and manage the implementation of those plans in the 11 countries in which the company operated. I was also briefed to develop new sources of revenue for the group. In this role I reported jointly to the Chairman and Managing Director.Key achievements:Developed a strategic plan and budget for the 11 countries in which the company operated.Recruited and trained new marketing staff in all those countries.Managed the implementation of the marketing plans in all our offices. This covered all areas of marketing including advertising, promotions, developing new sales tools, pricing new packages, training, development, product/ industry launches, conferences, and international trade exhibitions.Had a "hands-on" approach to management, and travelled extensively to the company's offices and attended conferences and exhibitions at international trade shows.Developed new business opportunities through joint ventures with Spark Brand Communications (a below-the-line promotions agency specialising in cinema) and Cineticket (the company responsible for back-of-ticket advertising).

In addition to its cinema and leisure assets the Interleisure and Primedia Group of companies owned a cinema advertising company - Cinemark. At the beginning of 1995 it was clear that government was to introduce legislation that would ban all cinema cigarette advertising - which at that stage made up more that 50% of Cinemark's revenue. I was promoted to the role of Managing Director of Cinemark with the specific role to grow the business in order to replace the revenue expected to be lost from cigarette advertising.Over the next 5 years I helped to grow this into a very profitable and thriving business. We were voted "Media Innovator of the Year" by our peers and succeeded in replacing more than the business lost due to the ban on cigarette advertising.

I was Managing Director of a cinema advertising company called Cinemark, and Board Director on a few Primedia companies.

Represented Southern Africa at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival

Shared in the collection and allocation of research funds to generate industry reports available to all South African media, advertising agencies and marketers.

Shared in the management of all advertising standards and complaints.

Lobbies for a free commercial environment where businesses could continue to operate without government interference.

Vice President and member of the international board tasked with running the worldwide cinema advertising body.

The Managing Director of the Interleisure Group, which owned cinema, food, and leisure assets, invited me to join them as Marketing Director for both their Exhibition and Distribution companies. Ster-Kinekor is the leading cinema exhibitor and distributor in South Africa, with close to 70% market share in both businesses. In my role as Marketing Director I reported to the Managing Director and was responsible for the marketing of over 600 cinema screens and all the movies released by Buena Vista International (Disney), Columbia Tri-Star, 20th Century Fox, and most of the major independent studios from Hollywood. The marketing team consisted of more than 20 people who were tasked with growing admissions and successfully launching close to 300 movies per year.Key achievements:Achieved admission growth ahead of the industry average and twice that of our leading competitor every year between 1992 and 1995.Launched a loyalty club which grew to 1 million active members and is still a big contributing factor to Ster-Kinekor's admissions growth. Successfully opened some of the biggest and most modern multiplexes in the world.Worked closely with the studios in Hollywood to release their movies at a rate of 6 per week. During my time at Ster-Kinekor we broke all box-office records and were rated as one of the best marketing companies in the world by both BVI (Disney) and 20th Century Fox.Regular travel to the US and Europe to attend International Marketing Conventions, Trade Shows, and business meetings.

J. Walter Thompson is one of the largest multinational advertising agencies in the world. I joined them as Account Executive and after a series of promotions performed the role of Group Client Service Director responsible for all multinational clients. My clients included Kellogg's, Warner Lambert, BP, Reckitt & Colman, Speedo, a leading insurance company and the larger liquor groups.