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Sydney, Nsw, Au

Empowering AI nations through sovereign AI data centers, accelerated cloud Infrastructure, and cybersecurity services.

Sydney, New South Wales, Au

Drop Bio is a high-calibre digital health company working to deliver personalised, longitudinal and actionable health information to help millions of people and their families understand and actively manage chronic inflammation risk.

South Melbourne, Vic, Au

Appointed by the Board and CEO for a strategically significant initiative to capitalize on the rapid growth in artificial intelligence and real-time data transformation-based computing. Directed team of hardware and software engineers specializing in AI and FPGA-based compute architecture to develop an accelerated hardware platform for machine learning and cybersecurity applications.

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Acted as general manager of three separate functional groups in the Cloud Services business including Product, Marketing, and DevOps, bringing new products and services to market with a focus on secure hybrid cloud and private data centre infrastructure solutions for business and government customers.Proud to have led a diverse team of cloud specialists with a strong culture of exceptional customer service evidenced by an industry leading Net Promoter Score (NPS) in excess of +80. The hybrid cloud business consistently overachieved on the combined metrics of net revenue, EBITDA, and NPS for three straight years and is the key contributor to the overall performance of the Macquarie Telecom Group, which resulted in a 300% increase in share price from 2014 to 2017 (ASX:MAQ) during tenure.

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Appointed by the board of directors for strategic transformation initiative encompassing both corporate and portfolio company strategy with a strong focus on cloud computing. This led to restructuring of the company into three distinct business units: Macquarie Telecom, Macquarie Government, and Macquarie Cloud Services. Subsequently joined as Head of Strategy and Emerging Technologies of the newly formed Cloud Services business unit.

Worked with Australian venture capital industry pioneer Roger Allen to foster innovation and stimulate the growth of Australian and international technology companies.In addition to investing capital, we provided leadership development as well as strategic and operational support for portfolio companies which we believe contributed to successful ventures as well as substantively increased valuations in follow-on rounds and successful exits (typically trade-sale and/or merger) for founders and stakeholders.

New York, Ny, Us

As a lead advisor in the strategy practice of Booz & Company, formerly Booz Allen Hamilton, managed internal and external teams/partners within often-complex multi-entity stakeholder environments to deliver growth strategy, technology transformation, and operational improvement programs for government and corporate clients across several industries throughout Australia, Asia, and the Middle East.

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Led numerous engagements with Euro RSCG (Havas), Ing Group, and Masters of Branding in the areas of business strategy, brand development & communications, organizational restructuring, operational improvement, e-business strategy and technology innovation

Ego Media is considered a pioneer in web design and streaming media technology, and has been recognized by over twenty advertising and web design awards including the Clio, Webby, and Cannes Golden Cyber Lion.Ego Media was acquired by HMG Worldwide in 1999 and formed part of the emerging business division, HMGe.

Monroe, La, Us

Worked with Fortune 100 clients on internet strategy, e-commerce and web development projects within Qwest Internet Solutions, a division on Qwest Communications (now CenturyLink).

Venture Capital Executive Program

Mba, Business Administration

Computer Science