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Melbourne, VIC, AU

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

Partners Wealth Group is a multi-disciplined professional services firm, providing wealth management, legal, lending, investment and superannuation services across Australia.

Cremorne, Victoria, AU

Acquired by an interactive fitness brand in Jan 2020. Welcome Fit had grown to become the world's largest platform of fitness professionals providing live, on-demand workouts for participants in over 60 countries. Welcome Fit's patented platform enabled highly interactive workouts to up to 1,000 live participants, was white labelled to global gym brands.

• Following the rapid turnaround of EMEA, APAC, the Middle East & India was identified as the next crucial growth area for Western Union Business Solutions and was structured into a new region. I was engaged to lead the.
• Initiated and led a comprehensive digital transformation across processes, systems & culture - critical to growth;
• Increased revenue and operating margin, successfully changed the business licensing in Hong Kong, enabling the launch of FX derivatives;
• Oversaw the launch in India and created a global account team to retain a significant partner in Japan.
• Doubled YOY increase in online customers via the launch of a new online platform and payment technology.
• Leveraged machine learning to predict customer requirements and inform our contact strategy.

• The success of building Australia into the SME market leader and #1 for customer satisfaction, led to an opportunity to relocate to Paris to lead the EMEA region, identified as a key growth area for the company. Tasked.
• Built the region into the highest performer globally in 2014, increasing revenue growth by 28% by Year 2, restructuring the region, assembling a new leadership team and creating a solution focussed culture;
• Introduced the use of data driven insights to drive behaviours, inform decisions and alignment across all functional teams and countries.
• Improved operating margin by reducing write offs, increasing revenue and merging the leadership of Switzerland, Germany and Austria;
• Increased staff engagement to the 75th percentile by establishing regular cross-functional communication across all countries, regular regional town halls and personal visits to each office.Director of Western Union.

• In November 2011, Western Union completed their US$974M acquisition of Travelex Global Business Payments. In January 2012 I was tasked with merging the two highly respected competitors in Australia and creating a ‘one.
• Delivered double digit YOY revenue growth with a focus on tapping into new segments and conducting data analysis, re-sell and up-sell activities across customer accounts.
• Digitised operational processes, aligned client platforms and introduced intelligent reporting dashboards, providing a single view of the customer for all teams, resulting in improved decision making.
• Culturally, we successfully integrated two direct and fierce competitors, overcoming significant tribalism and territorial behaviour.
• Developed and implemented an identity framework which was subsequently rolled out internationally, undertaking office visits and follow-up events and workshops to set the new business vision.Director and Board Member.

Peterborough, London, GB

• In 2010, I was promoted to run the Australian business following years of consistent high performance. My mandate was to achieve significant growth via new client acquisition, client retention vs the big 4 banks and.
• Built new business revenue growth by 200% YOY, with >90% of sales staff achieving target by using data to improve customer and product knowledge to significantly improve our customer strategy;
• Achieved #1 market share and customer satisfaction for SME customers, beating the ‘Big 4’ banks, leveraging data from across 12K accounts to target and expand into new segments;
• Improved pipeline visibility and client level detail across the business, directly connecting operations with customer impact;
• Selected as one of Travelex’s future business leaders, attending the company’s Global Leadership Program in South Africa, the UK and the USA.

Peterborough, London, GB

- Recipient of Global Award: 'Corps de Elite' in 2008/09. The award winner is nominated by peers and selected by our Global Managing Director. - Australia became the top performing sales team globally for Travelex in Q1 2010.- Delivered >220% YOY growth- Responsible for generating consistent growth in line with global business objectives- Full.

Peterborough, London, GB

Team focus on selling FX based payment solutions into the large SME and lower commercial markets.- 9 Direct Reports across VIC, SA, WA and TAS in Australia- Significant volume, transaction and margin growth 06 vs 07- >100% target achieved with reduced headcount

Peterborough, London, GB

Sole focus of new business acquisition and growth from C level sales to large SME and lower commercial clients. - 179% full year individual target- #1 Rookie in Australasia by % of target- #1 Rookie by # new customers acquired- #2 Salesperson in Asia Pacific for Q4

Founder and Director of Sports Injury Solutions P/L. Sold the business in 2006.Two main businesses: - Clinical: Allied Health, specialising in Sports Injury Management- Outsourced Consultancy: Corporate Health & Fitness programs; also sports team injury managementTrademarked 'prehabilitation': developing methods of soft tissue injury prediction and.