Tim Szonyi

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Owner and Director @ Byron Bay Tea Company
Melbourne, VIC, AU
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Greater Melbourne Area, Australia
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About Tim Szonyi

An entrepreneur at heart I thrive on delivering positive organizational change. I pride myself on a leadership style that is innovative, inclusive, consistent and accountable. I believe in well defined long term strategic ambition, backed by commercially grounded, consumer led brand strategies, disciplined financial rigour and streamlined operations. My success has come through building great teams. Good people are hard to find, so look for them in the most unexpected places, nurture them and they will thrive. I lead with energy, passion and commitment, and receive the same in return. A straight forward, honest approach to transforming organizations, I have spent half my career in C-suite roles leading companies and half in Management Consulting and Advisory roles. A strong track record of success across multiple industries and geographies globally.As a CEO and in Global Marketing, Innovation and Sales Director roles I have been fortunate to have been a leader in x5 major Food and Beverage Industry transformations and global expansions. As a Management Consultant I have worked across industries on major transformations. Four years at McKinsey & Company as an Associate Partner and leader in the Consumer & Retail and Marketing & Sales practices. and led the Americas for McKinney Rogers executing long term global strategy. I have had the opportunity to live in Jamaica, USA and work on every continent with amazing companies and people. My early career being set up with 6yrs at the MARS Corporation and a stint at Levi Strauss.A Bachelors Degree in Business Management and a Graduate Diploma in International Human Resource Management. Why human resources? - because individually we may not have all the answers, but collectively we do. My first passion is my family, closely followed by horses (Polo, Polocrosse and Racing), and keeping fit and healthy. A true believer in “Love life, Live life”.Areas of experience and expertise: Building and leading high performance organizationsBusiness strategy, transformation and value creationM&A commercial due diligence and capital raisesBrand innovation: bringing ‘new to world’ brands to marketIntegrated brand strategies linking consumer and commercial executionStrategic partnerships and commercial negotiationTrade, channel and portfolio strategies Culture transformation: including talent acquisition, development and retention

Tim Szonyi's Current Company Details
Byron Bay Tea Company

Byron Bay Tea Company

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Owner and Director
Melbourne, VIC, AU
Website:
byronbayteacompany.com.au
Employees:
2
Tim Szonyi Work Experience Details
  • Byron Bay Tea Company
    Owner And Director
    Byron Bay Tea Company
    Melbourne, Vic, Au
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  • Ashfords
    Coo
    Ashfords Oct 2023 - Present
    Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    Ashfords’ Accounting & Advisory is a full service financial advisory firm headquartered in Victoria and servicing clients nationally. A team of industry experts providing core services across; Accounting, Taxation, Audit, Digital and Business Advisory, M&A, Wealth, Superannuation, Risk Insurance and Finance & Lending. Securing our clients "Financial Freedom and Peace of Mind".
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  • Industry Beans
    Board Director
    Industry Beans Apr 2018 - Present
    Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    Australia's #1 premium specialty coffee brand, born in Melbourne, with an expanding network of company owned restaurants and cafes across the Eastern Sea Board as well as supplying coffee to many of Australia's best cafes and most iconic venues, including as the official coffee of the MCG. Proudly innovators of our industry, our DTC channel is supported by an exclusive partnership with DeLonghi coffee machines (of Italy).
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  • The Hidden Sea Wine
    Board Advisor
    The Hidden Sea Wine May 2021 - Present
    South Australia, Australia
    A wine that saves the sea. Built on a promise to remove and recycle 10 plastic bottles from oceans and rivers for every bottle of wine we sell. With the goal to 1 billion single-use plastic bottles
 from the ocean by 2030. Proudly stocked in retailers around the world.
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  • Maxaem Batteries
    Strategic Advisor To The Ceo
    Maxaem Batteries Dec 2021 - Present
    Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    Maxaem is a world leader and pioneer in research and development of magnesium air fuel cell (“Mag-Air”) technology. Having developed the patented (*) water-activated Battery Fuel Cells.The Maxaem range of battery fuel cells are now being commercialised for key markets around the world, including Australia, New Zealand, USA and Canada. Maxaem exists to harness new ways of powering the world through dynamic technology that works in sync with the planets natural forces.
  • Stoli® Group
    Vp Global Vodka & Global Innovation
    Stoli® Group Sep 2021 - Sep 2023
    Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    Stoli® Group prides itself as one of the few vertically-integrated vodka producers left in the world, as well as a rising force offering the production, marketing, sales and distribution of high-quality premium spirits to today’s savvy global consumer. We are proud of our top-quality production team and facilities across Russia, Latvia, Spain, Italy, Mexico, Argentina and the United States – some of which are steeped in history as early as the 1900s.Our signature brands are: Stolichnaya® Premium Vodka Range, elit® Vodka, Bayou® Rum, Cenote® Tequila, Se Busca® Mezcal and Kentucky Owl® Bourbon.En route to becoming a true global brand builder of premium and super premium spirits, we work with a passionate team of more than 200 distributors around the world.
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  • Total Brand Value
    Senior Partner
    Total Brand Value May 2020 - Sep 2021
    Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    We believe that all businesses are brands... if not, you're an easily replaced commodity. We tap into your brand's potential to deliver the strongest business value and enduring performance. It's why we created Total Brand Value, and it's what we love doing.We have a simple end-to-end business process supported by practical tools & frameworks. This delivers business alignment by driving teams to make cross functional decisions in real time planning. From this, your organization can ensure they make the right decisions quickly from STRATEGY through to EXECUTION.The TBV approach has been optimized over 20 years and trusted with over $50 Billion of performance driving investment.
  • Tribe Breweries
    Commercial Director
    Tribe Breweries Oct 2018 - Feb 2020
    Sydney, Australia
    Tribe is one of Australia's largest Independent Craft Brewers, disrupting the industry by partnering with a generation of craft beer artisans to knock down the barriers and bridge the gaps that would otherwise exist, unlocking their potential to create, innovate and succeed. We are a brand house, quickly establishing our own portfolio of amazing brands including Stockade Brew Co., Mornington Peninsula Brewery, Wilde Gluten Free and Pabst Blue Ribbon (USA) while looking out for new brands to join our tribe and to bring new to world brands to life. Our passionate and agile team have the capacity to flex from small-batch to at scale production, all the while staying true to the care and curiosity that makes Tribe the brewing partner delivering craftsmanship at every level. As a young, independent company we have the freedom to move to our own beat, and the drive to move at pace. As we accelerate our capability and growth, we welcome others on our journey–paving the road for success in the real world. Are you with us?
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  • Mckinsey & Company
    Associate Partner & Senior Implementation Leader
    Mckinsey & Company Oct 2014 - Sep 2018
    Melbourne, Australia
    McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm that serves leading businesses, governments, non governmental organizations, and not-for-profits. We help our clients make lasting improvements to their performance and realize their most important goals. Over nearly a century, we’ve built a firm uniquely equipped to this task.We serve clients at every level of their organization, in whatever capacity we can be most useful, whether as a trusted advisor to top management or as a hands-on coach for front line employees. For every engagement, we assemble a team with the most appropriate experience and expertise.No matter the challenge, we focus on delivering practical and enduring results, and equipping our clients to grow and lead. We partner with clients to put recommendations into practice. Our implementation specialists work directly with clients over long periods to help develop workforce skills, drive operational improvement, and apply new working methods.We continually seek new and better ways to serve our clients, and aim to anticipate their future needs. We encourage our people to create and pilot new capabilities and tools, and we invest our firm’s resources in these efforts:
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  • Business & Commercial Strategy, Marketing & Innovation Consultant
    Owner Principal
    Business & Commercial Strategy, Marketing & Innovation Consultant Apr 2014 - Oct 2014
    Melbourne, Australia
    Providing organisations with a robust, dynamic, and efficient process to help define a long term view of success. Identifying key growth drivers, strategic priorities and becoming an integrated part of the executive team to help drive execution and deliver desired outcomes.Current projects include innovation launches in both the USA and Australia, raising seed capital for start ups in the health and well-being and digital industries and defining a transformation strategy for a well established business in the building industry looking to shift their core business focus after more than 25 years.
  • Artisan Spirit Merchants (Asm Liquor)
    Ceo
    Artisan Spirit Merchants (Asm Liquor) Jan 2012 - Apr 2014
    Melbourne, Australia
    An Australian alcohol beverage company focused on developing expertly crafted artisan spirit brands, grounded in authenticity and produced with the highest quality liquids from across the globe.As CEO I created and delivered a long term transformation strategy including global expansion of the business which included the a new distribution model in Australia with Beam Global & CCA, creating a US based business and launching a co-created super-premium vodka with Robert De Niro as well as launching to other new to world innovations into the Australian marketplace and a relaunch of the companies core brand VODKA O. Other key projects included rebranding the company and raising close to $30m in new capital to fund the new business enterpriseYear on year double digit growth and H1 FY14 Revenue growth of +26% vs the overall spirits category at +1.5%, consolidating core brand VODKA O as the #2 Mainstream vodka in Australia and #3 in total vodka behind Smirnoff and Absolut
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  • Mckinney Rogers
    Regional Partner - America'S
    Mckinney Rogers Sep 2009 - Jan 2012
    Greater New York City Area
    Business Strategy & Execution consultancy firm, circa $35m USD revenue for the Americas.Regional Partner for the America's (including Latin America) with 35 staff and lead partner globally for the Beverage Alcohol sector.Our business performance solution assists organisations to define their strategy and drive it into execution through the rigor of robust processes and behaviours by working alongside management quickly building capability and performance driven culture. Delivering sustainable long term results.
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  • Red Stripe Jamaica (A Diageo Company)
    Commercial Director / Svp
    Red Stripe Jamaica (A Diageo Company) Mar 2007 - Aug 2009
    Jamaica
    Market leading beer and spirits beverage-company, top 5 company in JamaicaResponsibility for the Commercial Function across Jamaica. A direct salesforce of over 150 people selling products across Beer (Red Stripe, Guinness, Heineken & Dragon), Spirits (Smirnoff, Johnnie Walker, Baileys) and non alcohol (Malta) categories, as well as channel specific sales and distribution of the Pepsi portfolio. Delivering double digit profit growth and gearing improvement alongside a return to growth of flagship brand Red Stripe after 16 years of decline while integrating a spirits portfolio and a new route to market structure
  • Diageo Australia
    National Business Manager And General Manager
    Diageo Australia Nov 2004 - Mar 2007
    Melbourne, Australia
    The world’s largest premium alcohol spirits company with brands including Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys and Captain MorganResponsibility for Coles Myer, one of Australia's two largest retailers and Diageo's joint venture business in New Zealand with Lion Nathan and Agency business across the South Pacific Islands
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  • Levi Strauss & Co.
    National Sales Manager Aust / Nz
    Levi Strauss & Co. May 2003 - Nov 2004
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  • Mars
    Various Commercial Roles
    Mars 1998 - 2003
    Melbourne & Perth
    National Business Manager Petrol & Convenience (Mars Confectionery)National Account Manager Coles Myer (Masterfoods)State Field Sales Manager W.A. (Masterfoods)Sales Rep (Masterfoods)
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Tim Szonyi Skills

Strategy Fmcg Alcoholic Beverages Direct Marketing Selling Skills Wine Tasting Business Analysis Sales Management Sales Presentations Account Management Brand Management Business Development Business Planning Business Strategy Key Account Development Key Account Management Leadership Management Retail Sales Sales Operations Marketing Fast Moving Consumer Goods Marketing Strategy

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Tim Szonyi works for Byron Bay Tea Company

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Tim Szonyi's current role is Owner and Director.

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Tim Szonyi attended Monash University, Peninsula Grammer School.

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Tim Szonyi has interest in Polo And Polocrosse, Gym And Keeping Fit, Thoroughbred Racing, Golf, Travel, Great Restraurants.

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