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Marketing and Business Development executive with 25 years of experience leading, developing and managing strategies to successfully engage government, corporate and academic stakeholders in Australia and the Asia Pacific region across a wide range of industry sectors with organisations including PricewaterhouseCoopers, Covidien (Tyco Healthcare), AstraZeneca and Macquarie University. Have proactively shared the skills and experience gained in these roles through the management, training and mentoring of staff and colleagues.Significant achievements include developing successful partnerships for Macquarie University and the Business and Economics Faculty with organisations such as Australian Self Medication Industry, CBA, Cochlear, CPA and ASIC leading to year-on-year doubling of research income to $2m within 3 years. Initiated, implemented and lead the international engagement strategy for Macquarie University resulting in deep academic and research engagement with 54 universities throughout the world. Achievements in developing the Faculty’s India strategy were recognised when invited by Prime Minister of Australia to join his first delegation to India in September 2014 as a representative of the Australian Tertiary Education sector.Developed and implemented the strategy to introduce 17 new clients to PricewaterhouseCoopers, generating a significant increase in fees within 6 months in the banking, capital markets, property, infrastructure and Research & Development sectors.Leveraged existing extensive network to develop large-scale tender opportunities with the NSW and Federal governments and Non government organisations for Serco totalling over $250m.Business Development expertise built on 15 year career in Marketing and Sales Management roles in the Medical industry. Led a variety of substantial product launches and managed brands based in constantly changing market conditions.