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Sydney, Nsw, Au

Austin, Texas, Us

North Sydney, New South Wales, Au

North Sydney, New South Wales, Au

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Austereo is Australia’s largest publicly listed radio company, with 700 full and part time employees in total and a turnover in excess of $250M per annum. RESPONSIBILITIES • Accountable for the overall EBIT performance of the company• Day to day management of the five state based General Managers and the In-house Legal function • Providing support to the CEO & CFO on the strategic direction of the business • Negotiating major commercial contracts • Assisting with corporate governance and legislative reporting including emerging sustainability and community reporting requirementsACHIEVEMENTS • Pivotal in integrating the online business into the traditional radio business structure • Negotiated several multi-million dollar commercial contracts that significantly increased revenues and or decreased cost• Retained all staff during the GFC• Instigated numerous cost reduction initiatives bringing down the overall cost base while still enabling strategic investment in the business• Key player in designing the future technology platforms for the business• Launched the syndication of key shows, such as Hamish & Andy to over 50 regional stations and internationally, generating a new revenue stream for the business• Rationalised and automated a number of key business processes across all business functions, reducing low value or duplicated processes• Designed and successfully implemented a new sales commission structure for the 110 strong sales team, the first significant change to the commission structure in 15 years

New York, New York, Us

Horizon Media is Australia’s largest direct mail publisher. A privately owned company Horizon Media has two divisions, Horizon Print Management and Horizon Media that publishes and distributes over 23 million Yellow Envelopes each year.RESPONSIBILITIES • To double the company’s EBIT in 5 years • Develop the strategic business and marketing plan to achieve the required EBIT growth • Identify and acquire or organically launch new businessesACHIEVEMENTS • Rebuilt the Horizon Print Management team to enable it to rapidly grow its revenues • Focused the sales resources on the more profitable customer segments developing a substantial amount of new business• Significantly increased the profile of the business amongst key stakeholders through various marketing initiatives• Developed a new digital printing technique and inter active advertising mechanism for the envelope• Negotiated a number of new supplier rebate agreements and long-term price structures on substantially better terms • Assisted in the successful launch of a new Direct Mail publication. Circulation increased from 500,000 to 2.2M in under 12 months

Pyrmont, Nsw, Au

APNO is a division of APN News & Media, one of Australia’s largest Media Companies. It has businesses in Australia, New Zealand, and JV’s in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Indonesia. RESPONSIBILITIES • Accountable to Group for the company’s EBIT performance • Day to day management of the four functional General Managers • Ensuring the 30,000+ poster assets where proactively managed• Responsible for multi-million dollar tender submissions for outdoor advertising contracts • Integrating the five separate business units that had been bought together into one business with one culture and single inventory booking system • Developing new outdoor products including incorporating emerging digital technologiesACHIEVEMENTS • Secured all the contracts that were tendered, including; NSW State Transit, Railcorp and West Rail. In total these contracts represented 25% of the company’s inventory• Successfully exiting 3 business units improving EBIT and aligning the product portfolio with the strategic aims of the business• Rationalised the company’s poster asset base to radically improve profitability • Successfully launched new poster portfolio to the market• Developing two new outdoor posting mechanisms that significantly increased posting efficiency as well as improving the health and safety aspects of the posting process• Substantially improving EBIT performance in 2005 • Commissioning a business systems integration project that consolidated five business systems into one• Developed and implemented the cultural change program to create the unified APNO culture

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CSA was part of ITV PLC, a FTSE 100 company. CSA was Europe’s largest and most profitable cinema advertising company. Via a joint venture in the USA it was also the world’s largest screen advertising business.RESPONSIBILITIES • Developing and implementing CSA’s strategic planning at a corporate and business level including its integrated marketing strategy• Securing and developing CSA’s multi-million pound cinema exhibitor contracts, including strategic & financial planning, presenting, negotiating and completion of all contracts• Developing exhibitor relationships such that CSA became an integral part of their business• Developing new business units for the benefit of CSA and their exhibitor portfolio • Assisting with exhibitor tenders across Europe and the USA• One of the two Directors responsible for two year BPR process • Responsible for the weekly assembly, dispatch and retrieval of 2,500 bespoke advertising reels • Head of CSA’s National Production Department with turnover in excess of $15MACHIEVEMENTS • Secured 5 out of the 7 contacts tendered, with an average contract value of $100M, maintaining CSA’s 85% market share and improving its EBITDA performance to record levels in 2003 • Launched the UK’s first satellite digital cinema advertising network, at the time of launch the network was the third largest in the world • Key member of the acquisition team that launched CSA into 10 European countries via a JV• Developed two new business divisions that in under 4 years generated in excess of $11M• Founding member of the UK government DTI & DCMS Digital Cinema Committees• Reduced CSA’s print supplier costs by 14% over 4 years, stabilising the margins delivered from this division, which was suffering from significant competitive margin erosion• Refocused CSA’s marketing and research expenditure resulting in record sales revenues in 2003 and cinema taking 1.8% of total media expenditure in the UK

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