Mark Connell

Chief Executive Officer | ASX Director | Passionate about People and Logistics

Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

About

With an intrinsic passion for supply chains and the application of technology to drive productivity and efficiency across the global economy, I offer strong leadership skills and the ability to influence and provide high-quality advice and strategic direction across large and complex portfolios. Recognised as a respectful, reliable, thoughtful, and intelligent executive leader, I have often played a lynchpin role between global clients and Senior Executive / Board groups, combining my knowledge of technology, supply chain operations and strategic planning. A strong communicator, with the ability to bring teams together by creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organisation achieve its objectives, I take pride in demonstrating well-developed leadership qualities and trustworthiness to drive engagement. Leading by example, as a senior executive, I foster an inclusive and respectful work culture, valuing the expertise and perspectives of diverse stakeholders, ensuring unity in purpose and the accomplishment of successful results.

Experience

  • Yojee (Full-time · 5 yrs 10 mos)
    • Chief Executive Officer
      Jun 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

    • Chief Product and Technology Officer
      Oct 2023 - Jun 2024 · 9 mos

    • Chief Product Officer
      Oct 2020 - Oct 2023 · 3 yrs 1 mo

      Listed on the ASX, Yojee is an Enterprise SaaS start-up providing B2B and B2C logistics solutions, headquartered in Singapore with operations across Singapore, Australia, Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia. The organisation provides a single software platform to plan and manage land transport, making the complex process of managing supply chains simple and accessible to all players. As the Chief Product Officer, I am accountable for supporting and accelerating growth through planning, developing, and implementing a product roadmap, commercial strategy and direction aligned with organisational targets and objectives.

  • WiseTech Global (Full-time · 14 yrs 5 mos)
    • Business Development Manager (Australia & New Zealand)
      Jan 2017 - Sep 2020 · 3 yrs 9 mos

      Responsible for leading a team of talented professionals and driving growth of WiseTech's CargoWise platform into New Zealand, Australia and Asia. My role involved collaborating with all areas of the business including legal, accounts, product, marketing, learning and development and other geographical sales regions.

    • Business Development Executive
      Jan 2015 - Dec 2016 · 2 yrs

      Upon returning from our UK office I was asked by the CEO to join our business development team to further expand our reach into the land side logistics sector. With strong domain knowledge in Warehousing and Transport I helped drive sales globally in these markets. I was also a member of our global sales team working on the top 100 global accounts.

    • Senior Logistics Architect
      Mar 2013 - Dec 2014 · 1 yr 10 mos

      Working from our UK office I was involved with our marketing and learning teams to develop content for our online training and sales portals. During this period I was the General Manager of our UK office and also involved in designing our next generation of Cross Docking WMS and TMS platforms.

  • Senior Project Manager at Mainfreight
    Mar 2004 - Apr 2006 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    Responsible for complex global rollouts of various product developments and deployments, implementing structured project management approaches into IT and working as an effective link between business and technology

  • Senior Product Project Manager at Data Freight
    Feb 2002 - Mar 2004 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Senior Analyst Programmer - Contract at Swinton Insurance
    Apr 2001 - Dec 2001 · 9 mos