Track record

Over the past three years I have worked across approximately seventy countries, advising founders, owners, and businesses in environments ranging from major financial centres to some of the most operationally challenging regions I have seen.

For more than twenty years I have repeatedly put myself in places where difficult decisions were being made — early drone technology, a growing mining company, manufacturing in Indonesia, building businesses in Papua New Guinea. The industries changed. The pattern did not.

Where business took me

Where judgement was tested

• Aston Resources — CTO; A$400m IPO (2010), merger with Whitehaven Coal reported at US$3bn (2011).
• Newcastle Knights & Jets — CTO (2011–2014); innovation; corporate restructure around modern ICT.
• Patinack Farm — helped build a major thoroughbred operation.
• Reddog Technology — built in 2004, sold to customers in 2017.
• Laikim PNG — created business and strategy; capital and ICT.
• TStreet — pivot and capital raises at AUD $8m, then AUD $16m.

What I got wrong or would do differently

• Products launched before the market was ready.
• Partnerships entered without explicit control and exit terms.
• Complexity allowed to outrun clarity — fixed later, at higher cost.
• Mandates I should have declined because the real problem was not the one I was hired to solve.

In 2009, I was recognised as one of SmartCompany's Hot 30 Under 30, following the growth of Reddog Technology. Read the announcement .