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Sydney, Australia

Corum is an Australian public company specializing in acquiring, re-engineering and managing undervalued companies. Corum was restructured with a completely new board and senior management team, now bank financed and profitable.-Elected to the board Nov 2005-Responsible for Corum Health Services Division which has 40% of the market for dispense and POS software in pharmacies and represents 75% of Corum’s revenue-Achieved divisional profit 05/06 and doubled this 06/07-Member of MSIA sub committee that negotiated with Federal Government (DoHA)for software vendors to receive$18 million payments over 2 years for PBS Online development and support.-Board member representing Corum in a start up JVcalled PharmX Within 18 months all the major customers have signed with PharmX its profitable and established as the on line gateway for the industry.-Launched new software products, restructured sales and support functions and defined product rationalization strategies.

Cardsoft a US software company based in Silicon Valley, California focused on delivering new technology with a Java based open system software platform for smart devices; Mobile phones, PDA’s and smartcard terminals. The company, which originated in Australia in 1996 became a US entity in 2000. Heading responsibilities to manage the Australian operations comprising 30 staff including, software development, sales, finance and administration and to also act as the companies global HR Manager. -Set up US corporate office-Transferred 9 expatriates from Spain, France and Australia to US and obtained H1B and L1 Visas-Launch company share option plan-Presented and obtained agreement for HR strategy to the board-Established HR function from scratch-Charged by board to recruit senior management team including a new CEO, recruited and new CFO and established Paris office with a new European Head of Business Development

Human resources consultant to a number of leading Australian organizationsProjects undertaken cover a wide range of HR issues including succession planning, redundancy agreements, organizational design, compensation and benefits, disciplinary procedures and have been a mixture of strategic and operational in nature. For example wrote the strategy for Andersen Consulting to position them as an ‘’Employer of Choice.’’Consulting Assignments for a number of the major recruitment companies including recruiting senior technical and senior management roles for Alexander Mann formerly JSP Associates and HR people for TMP formerly Morgan and Banks

A major European IT company employing 60,000 people Commenced as HR Manager for Olivetti UK, a 1300 employee subsidiary. Promoted and transferred to Italy to take HR responsibility for all subsidiaries within the Asia Pacific Region. Responsible for 40 HR staff in various locations -Lead a team of 30 HR professionals across 5 countries-Set up regional office in China and Korea-Staffed new JV operation in India to manufacture PCs-Recruited and managed 26 Expatriates across the Asia Pacific Region with a zero failure rate-Assisted in change managing Japanese subsidiary employing 1300 people.-Introduced management training for all subsidiaries across the region-Redesigned the compensation performance plans for many subsidiaries-Negotiated Union Agreements in Singapore and Japan-Preparation and Presentation of the annual operating plan for all subsidiaries -Contributed to acquisition and merger of companies into the Olivetti group

A financial services company employing 2500 people. Reported to Managing Director and to the BoardAchievements - Introduced manpower planning- Redesigned the appraisal system and job evaluation schemes.- Became the youngest member of the executive committee- Responsible for corporate services with a staff of 30.