Greater Sydney Area
A results-oriented business executive with extensive corporate, consulting, and entrepreneurial experience. I have built teams and transformed several organisations during my career and delivered strong financial performance in the process. I am known as a firm but fair leader with a passion for developing others and have an innate understanding of how to attract, motivate and retain talents to form high performance teams. I have devised and implemented communications and change programs to support organisation restructuring and corporate repositioning. I have had a strong management track record across all levels of the corporate organisation, from managing front line employees to influencing top-level executives to drive organisational change. As a consultant, I have considerable experience in operational due diligence (DD), business process improvements and post-merger integration, and have supported numerous corporations across Asia Pacific with their Merger & Acquisition (M&A) transactions. I have developed a strong cross-cultural understanding of the workplace, having been relocated to several countries across Asia Pacific throughout my career. I am now seeking a role where I can draw upon my wide-ranging experience and combine it with my passion for developing people to build successful businesses.
Green Star Food Service is a food wholesaler servicing Sydney and the surrounding regions. The company supplies a wide range of poultry, different types of red meat and seafood, and selected smallgoods to our customers such as restaurants, supermarkets, butcheries, and food processors. With a fleet of self-owned and managed refrigerated trucks, and a 24/7 ordering system, we strive to deliver the freshest food to the hands of our customers. I was engaged to advise the owner/founder and prepare the next generation of the family as part of succession planning. My deliverable includes: • A strategic transformation plan to convert the family run business into a successful SME. • Appointed external advisors in HR, WHS and IT to build the foundation for compliance. • Supported the commissioning of a new production facility going live in September 2021. • Recruited a new finance team to ready the business for the next phase of their growth.
DMG Fine Wine, headquartered in Sydney, has 2 business divisions – Handpicked Wines and Baijiu. We are the grower, producer, wholesaler, distributor and retailer of Handpicked Wines as well as the sole importer of Kweichow Moutai in Australia and New Zealand. Handpicked owns vineyards across Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia and worked with growers from Italy, France and Spain to produce wines from key regions in those countries too. As General Manager, I oversee daily operations across Sales, Marketing, Operations and Finance. During my current tenure, I have • Transformed a family wine and spirit business and achieved CAGR of ~30% in turnover of wines. • Built an engaged, passionate, loyal and skilled multicultural workforce. • Expanded into new export markets across Asia and USA. • Restructured the organisation to create clearly defined roles and responsibilities to strategically focus the entire business on brand building and product quality. • Formalised business processes and introduced internal controls to streamline growth. • Revamped Handpicked Wines with new packaging and setting premium price tiers. • Collaborate with Fashion, Arts and Creatives businesses to reach target markets. • Developed a cultural partnership program to improve brand awareness with key influencers. • Implemented a corporate repositioning program with defined reputation management strategies, resulting in industry accolades such as "Marketer for the Year” and Finalist for EY’s “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2019, and 5-star Winery status from James Halliday awarded since 2015. • Expanded our production footprint by acquiring 3 additional vineyards in Australia and establishing long term grower relationships in Europe and USA.
Since my relocation back to Australia, I have been focusing on supporting clients on HR due diligences and management of the HR work stream under the PMO during a M&A transaction. I have worked with both overseas and local clients such as BHP Billiton, Noble Group and Caterpillar, Archer Capital, Marubeni Corporation and Primo Smallgoods, to name a few.
I was a senior manager in the Transaction Integration practice running the Project Management Office (PMO) and providing advisory in the following areas: (1) Integration (2) Carve out (3) Integration Due Diligence I have supported many clients on their M&A transactions across the Asia Pacific region such as Reed Elsevier Group, Fonterra Co-operative Group, Daimler AG, Kellogg Food Company, Veyance Technologies Inc., MTS System Corporation, Noble Group, The Coca Cola Company, Bristol-Myers Squibb, TomoTherapy Incorporated, CRH Group Services Limited and EPCOS AG, to name a few.
After the merger of the Linde Gas and BOC Gases businesses in China, I assumed a regional role in Human Resources, reporting directly to the Regional Business Unit Head (RBUH) for Greater China (China, Hong Kong and Taiwan).