About me

Some of the things I’ve done so far in my professional life:

• Launched one of the most successful enterprise software applications in the Asia Pacific region
• Started, grew and exited a consultancy business implementing ERP and CRM applications
• Grew an enterprise transformation practice as a Partner for a global management consultancy
• Started, grew and exited one of Australia’s largest fitness franchise networks
• Consulted to small companies on business planning, growth and acquisition strategy
• Ran a private equity fund
• Oh, and when I was a teenager, I wrote and published games for one of the first PCs, the Apple 2! (Really, check out this link or this link!)

Companies I am involved with now:

I’ve recently started In The Cloud to focus on helping enterprises increase agility and and cost effectiveness by delivering business outcomes through the use of Software-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service offerings, including Salesforce.com’s cloud solutions.

LoyaltyTech is a solution provider for the demand chain,  focussed in the cross-channel retail sector.   Particular focuses include e-commerce/e-tailing, loyalty programs and in-store customer experience improvements.

eOriginal Asia Pacific is the distribution partner for eOriginal, Inc, a premier solution provider for electronic signatures and electronic vaults.  eOriginal’s SmartSign and eCore products have been widely adopted in consumer lending, pharma, logistics and other industries to provide secure storage of agreements in electronic form with the associated cost benefits of eliminated paper, printing, shipping, filing, and so on.

Emersion Software Systems is a SaaS provider of billing and provisioning solutions for telecommunications and other usage and subscription based services.

Past companies and projects I have been involved with:

Contours is one of the leading women’s fitness franchise systems in Australia. Click here to learn about the award that smartcompany.com.au gave to Contours for fast growth.

SLM Corporate is the corporate advisory firm behind the SLM Growth Fund (private equity fund) that I ran for a while.

Inika is an up and coming mineral cosmetics company that I have been helping with business strategy.

The AAPT On-line Bill Analyser is a product that I helped AAPT define and implement for their business customers.

Red Hill Education is a company that I have invested in.  Did you know that education is Australia’s 3rd largest export (after iron ore and coal)?

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