Private Equity Management Solutions is a consulting business established to provide practical “hands-on” financial and business management solutions to businesses which have recently gone through (and/or are about to go through) a major corporate event. Such as a debt or equity capital raising, a business turnaround, a corporate acquisition, and/or sale of whole or part of the business. Services provided include:• Senior management (CEO / COO / CFO)• Business turnaround management• Mergers, acquisitions and capital raising• Business succession - planning and implementation

Chief Operating Officer of Davidson Trahaire Corpsych (DTC), Australia's leading provider of employee assistance, corporate psychology consulting, and wellbeing services.

I joined ProjectCentre as CEO in April 2009 after working with management and shareholders to develop the strategic growth and exit plan for the business. ProjectCentre provides an online project collaboration solution to support efficient delivery for large or complex construction and engineering Projects and to assist all parties in a Project meet their strategic objectives of Time, Cost and Quality Management. It delivers services to over 100 major AEC clients, including Baulderstone, Westfield, GHD, MacDow, Australian Dept of Defence, and Stronger Christchurch. Under my leadership, ProjectCentre successfully delivered on its key strategic priorities, including:- doubled annual revenue FY08 to FY12;- implemented high quality R&D and software testing processes to ensure high reliability, availability and security of the system and software;- productised key product lines to ensure reliable, simple, quick to deploy products, increased customer satisfaction, and highly scalable business;- expanded client facing work-force including the recruitment of highly skilled sales and business professionals to enable autonomous management and growth of new geographic territories;- implemented high quality performance management processes to ensure performance of all staff was aligned to and measured against strategic business priorities;- formed relationships with global construction software vendors with a view to converging the various construction software applications into one integrated suite of construction productivity tools.ProjectCentre was successfully acquired by RIB Software AG in September 2012. With over 15,000 customers across EMEA, North America and APAC, RIB is a global market leader providing innovative software solutions for the construction industry with its flagship solution RIB iTWO.

- Liaison with Managing Director, Operations Director and Finance and Admin team in relation to financial performance and financial reporting of the business- Leadership of monthly Board meetings- Drive strategic planning for the business- Maintain strong corporate governance and oversight of executive management team.- Proactive communication with senior executives, fellow board members, Private Equity shareholders, and Mezzanine and Senior Debt Financiers in relation to opportunities for optimising the strategic value of the business- Coordination of exit of Private Equity shareholders through management buyout

ILS is a business based in Adelaide, SA, with in excess of 200 full-time and casual employees. The business is involved in the rental and commercial cleaning of bed, table and theatre linen to large hotels, restaurants, hospitals and aged care facilities.Responsibilities:- establishing management reporting systems, overseeing the finance and admin team, cash flow management, business performance improvement projects, and M&A opportunities.- Finance Director and Company SecretarialAchievements:- Significantly improved transparency of business performance and accountability of business units by designing a new reporting framework.- Achieved greater than 50% reduction in net working capital within 6 months by implementing new cash flow management and stock management procedures to the business.- Increased accountability and performance of middle management team by developing key business KPIs and establishing systems for tracking and communicating performance against those KPIs.- Improved customer satisfaction levels through the introduction of internal communication disciplines between sales team and operational management and the introduction of formal customer relationship management processes.- Achieved greater than 30% improvement in profitability (EBITDA) through the development and implementation of a strategy for business improvement across all aspects of the organisation.- Successfully negotiated with senior lenders for the restructuring of debt facilities to accommodate the execution of the business improvement strategy.- Successfully negotiated with shareholders to raise further capital to fund a multi-million dollar upgrade of the plant.

Specialised in Corporate Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Private Equity

Corporate Recovery, Business Turnarounds, Receiverships, Liquidations, Business Advisory