Track record

70+ country visits in the last three years — each international border crossing counted, including repeat visits to the same country in different years. Advisory and operating work with 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 — CTO from inception; built into a major thoroughbred operation valued at approximately A$500 million or more at the time.
• 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 .