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Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Arkeus accelerates decision making through the fusion of optics and autonomy. Arkeus specializes in rapid design, innovation and fabrication of autonomous optical capabilities - designed to deliver transformative effects for Search, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (SISR). Arkeus wide area autonomous optical search and surveillance systems are optimised for aircraft, vehicles or drones conducting a range of missions including ISR, border protection, city size surveillance, force protection, counter terrorism, illegal activity monitoring or search and rescue. Arkeus optical surveillance systems operate across land, sea and space domains - specialising in extracting critical intelligence and surveillance information and disseminating that data in challenging or contested environments.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Vic

Sentient provides a range of software systems to the Department of Defence, national agencies and civilian organisations, used for exploitation and analysis of EO/IR Imagery. Central to my role within Sentient has been to build a sales and marketing competency within the business and a self-sustaining commercial revenue streamSpecific accountabilities of my current role include: Lead a team of business development executives and support staff Development of a go to market strategy for Sentient's products, including product capability, positioning, pricing and approach. Establishment of reseller/distribution channels Lead for Sentient in strategic alliances negotiations Responsibility for development and evolution of Sentient’s strategy Business Development lead for key major relationships Membership of Sentient Business Leadership Team Responsibility to determine Sentients product development path working with software development team leads Development of partnerships in line with commercial strategy

The Australian Association for Unmanned Systems is a non-profit organisation devoted to advancing the unmanned systems community. As a member of the AAUS Board, I help support the mission of the association in Australia.

Melbourne, Australia

Optimising the Sales Force was an organisation established to improve the competencies and capabilities of Australia's Sales Leaders. Established by three founders, each with extensive sales leadership experience and a passion for sales excellence, the organisation created a number of forum's, conferences, workshops and online resources to help Australia's sales leaders benchmark with not only thier Australian peers, but with global best practice. As one of the founders of Optimising the Sales Force, I played an integral role in all elements of the organisations establishment, content creation, network growth and day to day business operation.

Melbourne, Vic

Crest Innovation and Development is an event management company specialising in the provision of conferences, events and workshops for the Government and Corporate sectors. As a cofounder of Crest, I worked with the companies other founder on all facaets of the businesses operation.

Melbourne, Australia

I represented the Liberal Party of Australia in the Electorate of Melbourne for the 2010 Federal Parliamentary election.

Huthwaite is a leading provider of sales performance improvement to some of the worlds largest organisations. Huthwaite is the exclusive provider of the SPIN selling methodology. As Principal Consulant, my role was to work with customers to understand their sales process, diagnose capability gaps, align sales and marketing functionality to corporate objectives and work on a program of execution improvement.