
Vice President Marketing/Sales at GoPC.Net
Perth Area, Australia

Vice President Marketing/Sales at GoPC.Net
Perth Area, Australia
My current role is Vice President of Marketing/Sales for GoPC.net In this role, I assist GoPC to create and expand into this growing and emerging market.
Business and strategic planning, IT planning, marketing and communications, sales and account management, people management
(Internet industry)
August 2008 — Present (4 months)
GoPC.Net is an exciting cloud computing company. My role is to assist the business to grow revenue and partners, as well as input to the development team.
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; RHD; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
October 2001 — August 2008 (6 years 11 months)
My role is to help organisations identify opportunities and then develop approaches to add value to the bottom line. Most typically this involves aligning IT and business strategy, and in many cases software development to provide processes and systems for people to work most effectively.
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Information Services industry)
2004 — 2006 (2 years)
• Development of strategic plans including developing a Value Net study and workshop
• Defining web redevelopment approach, to provide major membership benefits, as aligned to the Value Net study
• Contribution to good board governance, and development of a director’s manual
• P&L and balance sheet review
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2000 — June 2002 (2 years 4 months)
Development of a networking group for entrepreneurs in the ICT sector Entrepreneurs2business (E2B).
In conjunction with Software Engineering Australia and Telesis, business planning, event co-ordination, marketing of the event. I was the spokesman for E2B, MC at the events, and was involved in attracting sponsorship.
E2B regularly attracted over 80 people to each event, and was widely acknowledged as an important and dynamic forum help entrepreneurs in the IT sector raise venture capital, attract management expertise and further develop the industry. One entrepreneur raised $1.5million via a VC that I introduced to him at E2B.
Profile speakers include John Poynton (Poynton Partners), John McGlue (Castlegates Porter Novelli), Steven Goh (Sanford Limited), Peter Lewis (Austrade, San Francisco). Rob Newman (Atmosphere Networks, QPSX)
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1998 — 2001 (3 years)
• Review of accounts, contribute to marketing and strategic planning including project and product commercialisation strategies
• The board experienced significant project requirements including commercialisation of major ventures, planning as a founding shareholder of WA ICT incubator Entrepreneurs in Residence EiR
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2000 — October 2001 (1 year 10 months)
• Preparing management reports for the board
• Managing accounts including forecasts, cashflow, profit & loss, end of year reporting and other company secretarial requirements
• All legal and contractual issues
• New business development & marketing
• Public speaking
• Staff selection and management
• Client service and project management
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1995 — 2000 (5 years)
• Strategic and creative input with the Managing Director on all accounts
• Providing assistance and direction to other account service staff where required.
• Direct Marketing consulting to RAC Insurance. This included strategy development, creative development and copywriting and production management.
• Client service for RAC Insurance (from May, 1997) involvement in all strategic development, advertising and concept development.
• Client service for Town & Country Bank for advertising and direct marketing
• Involvement in various land sales campaigns for Town & Country Land (such as Meadow Springs) and a campaign to sell the Butler land holding (a very substantial land parcel to the North of Perth)
• Client service for ANZ Meanz Business campaign (WA)
• Managed a production meeting to review and monitor all current jobs on for the Agency each morning involving Art Directors, Account Service staff, Designers and Production Manager.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
1992 — 1995 (3 years)
My key role at JMG was as Account Manager for BankWest. This involved in a wide range of direct marketing projects which has involved mailing of over one million articles to BankWest customers and prospects, and being involved in the transition from R&I Bank to BankWest from a Corporate Identification perspective.
Company Directors Course 2008 — 2008
This course covers all facets of being a director, from risk to strategy, financials and more. I highly recommend it....
AFA AdSchool 1996 — 1999
Completed all units in the AdSchool programme
Enterprise Workshop 1991 — 1991
Bachelor of Business, Business Communications and Marketing, 1988 — 1990
1984 — 1985
New technology, strategy, directorship, new ventures - and golf
Australian Institute of Company Directors
Western Australia Club
Institute for Information Management,
Bloggers
Start Ups Carnival
CeBIT 2008 - Transaction 2.0 Chairman
Who's Who - Western Australia 2008