Director of !nnovaBiz Pty Ltd, the leading provider of innovative, scientifically developed marketing, customer experience and productivity systems to small and medium sized businesses.

I am passionate about helping people in business achieve amazing results and create greater success through innovation in marketing, customer experience creation and using systems to improve productivity.

I have a science degree (with honours) and PhD in chemistry from Monash University as well as marketing qualifications from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and the Melbourne Business School.

I am trained and licensed to operate as a Quantum Business Development Consultant using Quantum methodologies.

I am also a licensed trainer for de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats® and an expert proponent of MindMapping® particularly for creative business development and project management.

I have developed the !nnova Productivity SystemTM which can help users be more proactive and strategic, ensuring they are working on the right things, reduce and manage interruptions and give them control over their work-life balance.

Director
!nnovaBiz Pty Ltd

Marketing and Advertising industry

2007 – Present

We work with businesses to provide cost effective internet marketing strategies and personal/ team productivity solutions.

We make extensive use of Mindmapping in all our work to allow creative visualization of ideas, solutions, strategies and projects. We use innovative, scientifically developed systems customized to each client's particular situation.

We believe that marketing begins with incorporating something unique and special into your product or service at the design stage, NOT just tacking on marketing as an "after-thought". If your product or service is unique and special, it will stand out.

We work with business's to define what is unique and special about their product or service and help them build and execute marketing strategies based on their uniqueness.

The result is an increased customer base, more traffic to their website, more website visitors converting to clients, increased turnover and profits.

Various
Rohm and Haas Company
Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ROH; Chemicals industry

1985 – 2006 (21 years)

21y career with Rohm and Haas Company, in Australia, Asia & USA where I:
-successfully led teams in many different locations, developed strategic sales/marketing plans to support global business objectives , developed long term strategic growth plans.
- Managed technical division with laboratories in Japan, China, Singapore, Australia, w. annual budget of US$ 8 million.
- developed 1 business unit in Asia-Pacific from US$5 million to 8 million revenue in 18 months.
- led the development and implementation of a systematic product development process, working from concept to production. This led to significant reduction in development times & savings of up to $US2 million per project.
- involvement in online strategies for leading consumer market understanding of quality paints.

Skills - creative thinking, team building, technical & business project management, marketing, product management, development of new products, customer relationship management, strategic planning.

Various
Agfa-Gevaert AG

Photography industry

April 1980 – October 1984 (4 years 7 months)

1980-1981 Research chemist,
1981-1984 Research Section Supervisor

I worked on the development of new image-receiving elements for dye diffusion transfer as part of an instant photographic colour system. Many results of this work were published in eight patent applications.