Proven international leadership leading diverse and complex businesses across multiple markets and countries in challenging business environments within the Private and Government sectors. A global and future oriented leader with extensive international trade and investment experience, having led the NSW Governments International Investment and Export organisations across 10 counties, and significant commercial expertise in building and managing sales and marketing businesses across Asia Pacific, including having spent 3 years in China creating retail businesses with Chinese Joint Ventures across China. Demonstrated success in brokering collaborations between industry, government, universities, research institutions, start-ups and investors that create material and scalable commercial outcomes.Key highlights:• Leading the NSW Governments Trade and Investment function to secure $6Billion in foreign direct investment and $3Billion in export revenue• Leading the development of NSW’s priority industries in the economy, focusing on advanced manufacturing, food & beverage manufacturing, cyber security, defence industries, medical technology, agricultural technology, financial services, aerospace and space• Realigning industry’s business models to address the disruption being shaped by automation, artificial intelligence and the cyber-physical domain (industry 4.0)• Establishing multiple chains of market entry Shell China businesses across 7 provinces in China • Delivering a strategic business turnaround of a significant Shell sales and marketing business with operations across Oceania • Establishing and delivering a strategic Shell retail channel to market network of businesses (including rationalizing non-strategic platforms) supported by developing an integrated supply chain capability to support this channel to market