Rob Phillips Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, VIC, AU

Surry Hills, New South Wales, AU

Managing Director of Platform Executive Pty Ltd, a start-up membership portal business seeking to democratise access to the knowledge economy.Using our unique next-gen contributor model members gain access to 10,000 in-house company analysis reports, with each report including an expert SWOT, PESTLE, Porters Five Forces, CATWOE, MOST and 5C analysis, with.

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

The Emerging Technology Networks business acts as a holding company for my interim executive and consulting assignments, textbooks and investments in start-ups. The business offers interim executive management and consultancy services across Australia and the UK, covering everything from business strategy, digital transformations and revenue growth through.

AU

Houseandland.com.au is an Australian property portal. This platform features unique proprietary technology that enables users to match house designs from local builders to available land for sale (and vice-versa).As Interim CEO of Houseandland.com.au Pty Ltd (fixed-term contract) I created and then implemented a new business model and business plan.

Melbourne, Australia, AU

Majority owned by the former CEO of REA Group and a number of high profile Australian entrepreneurs, Vertical Networks Group operates a series of membership-based industry portals and B2B conferences. As the CEO of Vertical Networks Group (formerly ArtsHub Holdings) the key objectives were to (1) grow revenue and profitability; (2) improve the cash flow.

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

ArtsHub is a membership portal providing professionals working within the Australian and British arts industry with news, data, information and events.As CEO of the parent company Vertical Networks Group, I was also CEO of ArtsHub Australia Pty Ltd and ArtsHub UK Ltd and ScreenHub Limited businesses.

London, England, GB

CEO of Progressive Innovations Ltd, a digital product incubator based at Progressive Media Group (nee GlobalData plc). My co-founder and equal equity partner in the business was the CEO of GlobalData plc.The mission was to create tangible innovation in the digital media, publishing and business intelligence spaces; and do this at break-even point, or.

London, England, GB

Continuation of my career at Progressive Media Group. Again, reporting directly in to the Chairman, this time in the combined role of Digital Director, Marketing Director and Circulation Director I had C-level responsibility for the private-side of one of Europe's largest media conglomerates, including New Statesman and many other magazine, publishing and.

London, England, GB

Employee number two for PMG (now branded GlobalData plc) and reporting directly in to the Chairman, I was responsible for creating innovative digital media and content-based products and heading-up the groups audience development and marketing activities. This included developing the core strategy and business models for 200+ websites; digital advertising.

Parallel to my day job, I have undertaken a number of digital media investments, or start-up projects, including:► Founding, growing and then selling the worlds highest-trafficked GPS website► Management of a large premium domain name portfolio► Investment in multiple platform-based start-up businesses (accompanying Non-Exec roles in two)► Creation of.

As Digital Director I was responsible for both founding digital properties at the group and the digital transformation of the business. Successes included the following:► Creation and launch of more than 50 highly successful industry-specific 'hub' websites including Computer Business Review, Pharmaceutical Business Review, Energy Business Review.

Reporting directly to the CEO and Chairman, my achievements at this London-based market analysis and consultancy business included the following: ► Development and management of the white label e-commerce platform, which was the first *full* white label e-commerce website in the publishing sector. Partners included The Times newspaper, Factiva, The.

Headed up the digital marketing and audience development work for Standard Media International, the publisher of The Industry Standard magazine and website. The role had a heavy concentration on organic SEO and link building activities as the primary KPI was audience growth.► Grew the web property from nothing into one of the highest trafficked, most.

Founded and then sold a profitable SEO, digital marketing and e-commerce consultancy start-up that specialised in all aspects of SEO, ePR, audience development, guerrilla marketing and Email campaigns. A large client list including notables such as Barclaycard ePDQ, Guinness, uBoot, Carrot, Cycosmos.Additionally, we pioneered full service IP and.