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Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Au

Transformational strategic, commercial, and operational advisory to executive teams and boards.• Carbon Revolution – ASX listed advance manufacturing business. Advised executive team throughstrategic M&A activity, resulting in listing on NASDAQ through merger with a SPAC.• Social Research Centre – ANU-owned research and insights company. Advised CEO and board on organisational and digital transformation to improve margin and expand mission.• Scaleups – Advised executive teams and boards on strategy, commercial performance, funding, M&A and brand.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Led the turnaround and exponential growth of Australia’s premier tech and innovation hub.• Diversified revenue streams and geographic reach, growing annual revenue by 10x.• Initiated and integrated two acquisitions.• Secured millions in government funding and venture debt financing to fund growth.• Established multi-year corporate strategic partnerships delivering millions in high-margin revenue.

London, Gb

Curated and managed portfolio of real estate, lifestyle and creative assets.• Led the restoration and relaunch of the historic Opera House in the UNESCO WorldHeritage Town of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.• Re-developed a significant number of historic residential and commercial properties.• Founded an art gallery and published globally-distributed lifestyle and arts magazine.

London, England, Gb

Built and led, private equity style consultancy tasked with improving revenue, working capital, capexefficiency, cost management and operational efficiency across BP’s global portfolio.• Delivered over $3.5B USD of value (20x ROI) across portfolio composition and footprint; pricing, sales and marketing; operations and maintenance; logistics; technology; finance and procurement.• Created Singaporean big-data team to proactively uncover value across the BP portfolio.• Cultivated a culture of step-change performance and continuous improvement across the group.• Member of BP’s top 100 senior executives.

London, England, Gb

Created and led BP’s Group Indirect Procurement function, responsible for $6-8B USD in annual third-party spend across technology, property, facilities, fleet, travel, consulting and staff augmentation.• Led global organisation of 300 with annual operating budget in excess of $125M USD.• Reduced costs by over $1.5B USD while improving service levels and purchase-to-pay compliance.• Created Procurement BPO in India, reducing costs by 40% while raising productivity.• Oversaw delivery of 260 Lean Sigma projects with savings of $58M, resulting in a 5x ROI.

London, England, Gb

Launched BP’s first centralised IT Procurement function, responsible for driving savings, ensuring supply and reducing risk across third-party spend. Created and led group-wide Six Sigma offering.• Achieved 15% annual savings on $1.5B USD of third-party IT spend.• Created global sourcing model, enabling access to resources at 50% average annual savings.• Established supplier performance management program reducing suppliers by more than 30%.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Responsible for the leadership of all horizontal activities within the IT function, including global sourcing, technology and architecture, processes, standards, quality and metrics, systems consolidation and integration, organisational restructuring, vendor management and ecommerce.

Burlington, Vt, Us

Founded technology consultancy focused on global sourcing and staff augmentation, serving Fortune 100 and smaller technology-dependent organisations including AIG, J&J, GE and Burton Snowboards.

Boston, Ma, Us

Executive and Director – Global Sourcing | New Delhi, IndiaResponsible for company-wide offshore sourcing of technology and engineering services. Led a $250M USD globally-distributed organization of 3500 professionals delivering savings topping $125M USD per annum. Established Mexico operations to mitigate geographic risk. Led technology due diligence efforts.Group Head – IT Learning & Development | Fairfield, Connecticut, USALed internal team and renowned external educators in the development and execution of entry-level programs, intermediate-level training and executive development to attract, develop and retain top talent.CIO – Corporate Head of IT for Asia Pacific | Beijing, China & Hong KongLed the implementation of consolidated payroll, HR and financial applications. Initiated IT standardisation, including comms and financial systems. Established the IT leadership program to facilitate localisation.CIO – Information Services, Corporate Telecoms | Princeton, New Jersey, USALed the IT function of the world’s largest private telecoms network, including applications development, billing, infrastructure and end-user support. Led development of problem management and telecom provisioning systems. Rationalised systems, decreasing complexity and costs.

Education record

Mba, It

Bs, Finance

Business Administration And Management, General

Education record