Don Smith Email & Phone Number

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Wellington, New Zealand

Project lead and business development roles focused on natural hazard risk adaptation and resilience.

Auckland, New Zealand

Accountable for intermediated Personal Insurance portfolio, Suncorp NZ

Auckland

Head of Product for Personal Insurance. Architect of Vero NZ's 2015 "Innovation of the Year" SumExtra.

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Stream Lead (via ICG Consulting) on 'Build a better Vero' transformation programme:• product & pricing framework• collateral strategy

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Early Investor & Director in Hunter Safety Lab, subsequently pivoted into industrial safety and rebranded as Seen Safety

Wellington

Business advisor & mentor to NZ's first Lightning Lab

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Business development and consulting to NZ and AU Corporate & Government clients:• strategy reviews, process improvement, change management

Wellington

Start-up business and product incubation, mentoring/advising start-ups and sounding board for CEO on introduction of Techstars' accelerator (Lightning Lab)

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Project management and product incubation, outsource client relationship management & business development. Primary focus on integration of variable data document management capabilities into the online world.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Operational accountabilty, 60 strong graphic design and print management company.Conceived and lead transformation programme, repositioning design offer as a customer experience design capability and integrating print management offer into parent procurement & business process management capability

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Change agent for CEO aligning the business around key offerings• pursued and executed merger to enable scale benefits and add capabilities• programme lead for the development and launch of new Direct Marketing business• strategy & product development of the NZ and AU outsourcing offers

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Product Management, Information Management ServicesDevelopment and piloting of new accounts payable offering

Australia And New Zealand

Business development and assignments in NZ SOE and AU Corporate clients, including:• business model and structure reviews, including shared services• strategic review and benchmarking for outsourced product processing

Melbourne, Australia

Took a year off and "fathered" my then 1 year old. Most rewarding thing I've ever done ... and this system doesn't have an appropriate category.

Melbourne, Australia

Responsible for strategic and ecommerce development of the NAB Group (multi-national) • implemented group strategy/project portfolio management capability• advised on investment, divestment and performance improvement interventions across the group• conducted various JV/partnership/new venture negotiations and led integration of acquired US mortgage servicer into AU operations• seconded to Andersen Consulting (Accenture) Technology Innovation Lab in Palo Alto developing new products & business models culminating in launch of NabTrade

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Responsible for strategic development of the BNZ Group • led major restructure programme (retail bank personal & business)• M&A integration & structural reengineering• strategy, new business model and product development

Education record

Harvard Club of Australia, Leadership Program

Mba, Business Management

Education record

Undergraduate