Guild of Business Mentors

Neill F. ARTHUR
Eur Ing, BE (Chem) Hons (Adelaide), C Eng, FIChE, FAusIMM,

FAICD Graduated with Honours in Chemical Engineering, Adelaide University, South Australia
Graduate, Australian Administrative Staff College, Mt Eliza, Victoria, Australia Advanced Management Programme
Accredited “Eur Ing” FEANI, Paris, France Federation of European Engineering Associations
Accredited, European Bank of Reconstruction & Development in Mining, energy & power generation
Certified, Stolmack Group Mentor Accreditation Program (as endorsed by CCH)
Mentor Induction Program, Merryck & Co. Ltd., UK

Chairman, Uranium Exploration Australia Ltd.; Chairman Proactive Energy Developments Ltd.; Director, The Australasian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy; Director, Superior Coal Ltd. (2004 to March 2006); Chairman and/or executive director of a number of private companies including with interests in utilities, steel & infrastructure; adviser to board of GPR Dehler, major international management consultancy in business improvement and change management programs for major corporations; and adviser to president of a new bank in China and adviser to chairman of a Chinese company.

Neill’s recent experience has included delivery of:

As CEO, turnaround of a formerly moribund listed company into an S&P ASX 200 company.

Listing an Australian company in the UK & Germany in the then largest IPO and subsequently the then largest rights offer, fully underwritten, at a premium to the market.

As CEO, establishment and running a new government corporation; formally mentoring 4 senior staff all of whom went on to become CEO’s of other organizations.

Advice to McKinseys and the German Government on the privatization of the former east German mining & power industry.

Several overseas and Australian infrastructure, mining and power projects under current development with a leading international merchant bank.

Wade AZMY
B. Sc

Bachelor of Science, Electronics & Communication Systems
Certificate, Leadership in Senior Management – Macquarie University
Certificate, Corporate Management – Deakin University
Strategic Management Planning – HP Corporate Education
Functional Management program – SMG, Inc.
General Management for Executives – Boston Consulting
Certified, The Art of the Business Mentor two-day program by iMentor-pro

Wade Azmy is a highly experienced business executive with global practice and exposure in General Management, Marketing, sales and business development with previous assignments involving businesses in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, India, Singapore, Malaysia, UK, USA and the Middle East for Hewlett Packard. He concluded his corporate career as global executive of Marketing responsible for reshaping the marketing strategy for a global professional service organisation. Prior to this Wade had experience in various general manager and director roles in organisations ranging from customer service, quality, sales and marketing within the IT and medical industries.

Wade is known for his strong leadership and strategic planning capabilities. He also has experience in organizational development, relationship development, and human capital management.

Wade has been an agent and catalyst of change with direct involvement and ownership of businesses during spun offs, mergers, acquisitions, and major restructuring programs within different market cycles. His approach in dealing with the dilemmas of change is based on a unique blend of contingency or situational approach founded on system thinking perspective to enable the effectiveness of management action.

Wade has been involved in business-mentoring during and after his corporate career. He provides consulting and advisory services for businesses, executives’ teams and senior decision makers. Wade’s experience has provided him with the unique ability to provide a broad range of insightful and innovative ideas in complex and challenging business environments.

Those who know Wade describes his main attributes as:

Results –driven management professional
Experienced in building profitable growth organisations
General manager with cross functional knowledge and practice
Highly focused on developing and empowering teams
Good relationship builder

Throughout his career Wade has focused on coaching and mentoring as means of developing and progressing of the management capabilities for any organisation he was involved with. He developed management teams in more than 12 countries and as many cultures; he successfully implemented succession and leadership initiatives as part of his management system.

Wade has been fortunate across his career with Hewlett Packard to have a structured advanced development and education programme provided by world class education authorities and professional mentors as part of his development to senior management positions.

Wade has expertise in the following change management, strategic thinking and leadership areas:

Leadership in senior management
Strategic management and planning

Neville COX
FPNA, FCIS, Dip CM, FAIBF

Mentor Induction Program, Merryck & Co. Ltd., UK;
Certified, Stolmack Group Mentor Accreditation Program (as endorsed by CCH)
Neville’s recent mentoring experience has included delivery of:
- One on one executive business-mentoring CEO level OPSM
- One on one career mentoring Senior Finance Executive – Peppers Resort Group
- Executive mentoring CEO Indicium Pty Ltd
- Various mentoring Young Presidents Organisation

Adrian DART
Bachelor of Commerce, Master of Business Administration

Mentoring qualifications have been gained from long practical on-the-job experience working with CEO and MD executive teams as well as divisional management team leaders over many years.

Accredited business-mentor using The Art of the Business-Mentor induction program by iMentor-pro

Experienced director having served on 10 Boards and as a member of the senior executive team of publicly listed homebuilding company.

Extensive involvement in company diversification as part of multi-disciplinary team. Exposure to about 100 organisations across a wide variety of industries & an ability to solicit & interpret meaningful information has helped executives make key decisions yielding significant growth & sustainable profit improvements.

Facilitator / listener – asking the hard questions, inviting participation, digging out the ‘realities’, tackling the hard issues.

Adrian looks to establish a close relationship where confidences can be shared & where continuity builds both trust & respect. This engenders a ‘win / win’ feeling in both parties as the value of the relationship builds.

He has worked with both Australian & South African cultures (including multi nationals such as Shell & Bayer) – also with many predominantly women’s groups in the education field.

Michael DONOVAN
FAICD, FAIM, MICFA, AIAMA, Mediator

Michael has had articles on Leadership published in Butterworths highly respected ‘Executive Excellence’
Certified in World Competitive Service Accreditation (AusTrade & SRD NSW);
Accredited in Environmental Business Management, George Washington University, Washington DC. USA
Accredited Mediator, Institute of Administration, Australia (Oct ’04);
Accredited in Executive ImpactSM,
Miller Heiman, Australia;
Graduate, Order of Merit, AICD Company Director Course, Australia;
Completed AICD Courses in Strategic Financial Management, Ethics, Corporate Governance, Board and CEO Performance Evaluation, Director’s as Leaders and The Role of the Chairman.
Accredited business-mentor using The Art of the Business-Mentor induction program by iMentor-pro
Committee Member AICD Company Director’s Course Curriculum Design.
Mentor Induction Program, Merryck & Co. Ltd., UK – Course Trainer
Member, International Coach Federation, Australia;
Certified, Stolmack Group Mentor Accreditation Program (as endorsed by CCH).
Michael’s recent mentoring experience has included delivery of:
- One on one executive business-mentoring Group Executive Level – Westpac;
- One on one career mentoring Senior Partner Group – PricewaterhouseCoopers;
- Executive mentoring General Management Level
- RailCorp (State Rail, Rail Infrastructure Corporation)
GE Finance
McKenzie Group
Australian Institute of Company Directors
Vero Insurance Ltd
Training and accrediting Merryck & Co. Faculty Mentors.
Contributed to the development of the AICD Director Alumni, Coach and Mentor CONNECT and Mediator CONNECT Referral Programs launched 2005.
Works for the MBS Mt Eliza Centre for Executive Education Mentoring in Organisations Program, launched in 2006.

Austin DRISCOLL
FITFUS

Accredited Associate of Institute for Independent Business Fellow of the IT Foundation of The University of Sydney
Certified, The Art of the Business Mentor two-day program by iMentor-pro
Austin Driscoll has more than 30 years experience as an executive and company director in the Information Technology industry. He was Vice-President of Compuware Inc responsible for Australia and New Zealand Operations, and Sales Director for a subsidiary of the Sanderson Group Plc, Sanderson CDC. Prior to those appointments, Austin, with a business partner, built up and operated a successful applications software and computer hardware sales and service company, Clegg Driscoll Consultants, which was later acquired by the Sanderson Group Plc.
Austin has a strong understanding of business systems and processes, attained both in successfully developing and maintaining his own business in a rapidly changing industry, and in overseeing the development and implementation of systems in businesses of all sizes. Counted among Austin’s clients over the years are Boral, Brambles, ABC Corporation and OPSM Industries, to name but a few.
The success of Clegg Driscoll was its ability to integrate computer technology into the operations and processes of companies that had largely had no previous experience with computing. Austin gained unique insight into business process and change management in the course of the design, development and implementation of computer based business applications which his company undertook on behalf of its clients, and which revolutionized the way those businesses operated. This experience has assisted Austin to develop strong insights into how people cope with and adapt to change.
In his leadership role with Compuware Austin had the opportunity to mentor and coach a group of highly talented albeit individualistic people in order to develop better teamwork.
Having started his career in the specialist technical area of applications software development in the then relatively new discipline of commercial computing, Austin developed into an able leader and manager of people with diverse talents, skill sets and preferred modes of operation. Austin sees the successful focussing of people with all their idiosyncrasies as one of the greatest challenges of today’s leaders and senior management.
Austin is a Director of Kingtec (Australia) and a Fellow of the IT Foundation of the University of Sydney, and a past Board Member of NSW Institute of Technical and Further Education.

John HALL
FAICD

Seminar for Senior Executives – International Institute for Management and Development (IMD), Switzerland
MBA, Deakin University
Graduate Diploma of Management, RMIT
Diploma of Agriculture, Dookie Agricultural College
Australian Institute of Company Directors Programs:
- Advanced Program
- The Role of the Chairman Company Directors Course Diploma
- Board, Director and CEO Assessment

Certified, Stolmack Group - Mentor Accreditation Program (as endorsed by CCH).

Initiated development of the Director Coach and Mentor Referral Program for Australian Institute of Company Directors membership launched in 2004.

John has been a long time advocate of mentoring for personal and corporate development.

Under his guidance his direct reports were offered mentoring attachment as part of their career advancement.

Warren HART
Dip LR & L, Dip PA, MAICD

Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD)

Holds tertiary qualifications in Management and Labour Relations and the Law.

Warren is a respected Chairman of two syndicates of the Australian CEO Institute.

He has held positions of operational General Manager Human Resources and Managing Director of a large State Owned Corporation. He has also held the role of Chairman of one overseas and one Victorian SOC subsidiary.

Mentoring Executives as Syndicate Chairman for the CEO Institute. In this capacity he works with up to 28 Chief Executives from both private and listed companies
Working with these Chief Executives gives him rare insights into a range of contemporary management issues across a diversity of businesses.
One-on-one career mentoring
- NRMA
- Sydney Ferries

Greg IRVING
B Elec Eng, FAICD

Degree in Electrical Engineering
Diploma Company Director UNSW
Advanced Business Courses Harvard
Cranala Leadership Graduate

Accredited Associate of Institute for Independent Business

Certified, The Art of the Business Mentor two-day program by iMentor-pro

Greg Irving is a highly experienced senior executive with global experience in Marketing, Technology, Sales Management, Strategic Planning, Information Technology and General Management with previous responsibilities involving leadership of businesses in the United States, Australia, Asia Pacific and Europe. Greg has managed global businesses for global corporations as well as being CEO of the Honeywell Australia. The experience he has gained across a diverse range of challenging roles has provided him with a very broad range of range of experience & insight and an ability to handle high levels of complexity.

Greg is an active business leader with significant experience in conceiving and deploying major change management programmes and successfully managing the transitions and the organizational and human consequences of these programmes in a range of corporate & national cultures. His approach to successfully deploying change is to maximise shareholder value in the long term while balancing the interests of the range of involved stakeholders.

Throughout his career Greg has focused significant effort on succession planning & mentoring considering this as an absolutely key success factor for both himself and his organization . People he has mentored have gone on to fill Senior executive roles in major global companies including Honeywell, Emerson & General Electric. Greg has successfully managed global teams consisting of senior people from diverse cultures & backgrounds and has key insights on approaches to balance the unique challenges and opportunities these teams provide.

Those who know Greg describe his main attributes as:

High levels of analytical and creative skills which enable him to rapidly and insightfully identify strategic implications and potential solutions.
Strong record of development of strategies to maximise shareholder value.
Coaches and mentor to get the best out of teams.
Displays courage.
High personal and ethical standards.
Rapidly assimilates complex briefs
Good listener with good interpersonal skills.

Greg is an Electrical Engineer who has been fortunate across his career to have extensive advanced business education provided by Harvard Business School and Stanford professors as well as from other universities. He has also been the recipient of extensive and intensive management training from companies including General Electric & Honeywell providing him with world class education across a broad range of business disciplines & processes . He also holds a Diploma of Company Director from UNSW.

Greg has expertise in the following change management and leadership areas:

Strategic planning and development
Organisational, capability and business lines programs
Business strategy implementation and Business Process Management
Transformational change management
High-level business process architecting, process and workflow design
Program Management
Technology assessment & business & organisation assessment
Marketing Program design & deployment
R&D program management

David LAWRANCE
FAICD, FAIM, MICFA, Mediator

BA (Public Administration} major in Law;
Accredited Mediator – Australian Institute of Mediators and Arbitrators,
Various short courses in areas of public administration, human resources and counselling.
Three years study towards LLB at A.N.U. Canberra
Mentor Induction Program, Merryck & Co. Ltd., UK;
Certified, Stolmack Group Mentor Accreditation Program (as endorsed by CCH)
Recent experience has included delivery of mentoring, coaching, facilitation, counselling, estimates committee preparation, statutory compliance advice, outplacement services, political and public relations advice and pre trial preparation for actions involving the Commonwealth in a range of organisations including Commonwealth, State and Territory Agencies and private sector corporations.
Clients include:
- Department of Territories and Regional Services;
- Independent Competition and Regulatory Commission;
- Department of Industry Science and Resources;
- ACTION Authority;
- Various law firms;
- C S I R O;
- Godfrey Pembroke;
- McKenzie Group;
- Australian Government Solicitor;
- Xitel Pty Ltd;
- Wizard Projects Pty Ltd.

Susan LENEHAN
MBA, FAICD

Master of Business Administration, Deakin University 1995.
Graduate Diploma of Management, Deakin University 1994.
Graduate, Company Directors Diploma Course, Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) 1998
Completed AICD Courses in Strategic Financial Management, Optimising Performance Under New Compliance Regimes and The Role of the Chairman 1998- 2002
Graduate Diploma of Teaching, University of South Australia 1981.
Bachelor of Arts, Macquarie University 1980
Human Resource Management as part of the MBA program
Educational Psychology
Sociology
Consultant training with McCarthy Management Mentoring Program

Susan has four years experience as a professional mentor and coach and her recent experience includes:

Individual executive mentoring programs to senior executives within
- Citigroup
- AMP
- Diners Club
- UBS
One on one career mentoring within the legal firm Allens Arthur Robinson.
Individual and group business/management mentoring to Chief Executive members of the CEO Institute

As Chair and member of a number of government and private sector boards, Susan has provided mentoring and support for the CEO and senior executives

Michael LILEY
B. Eco (Monash), Grad. Dip Bus Admin, (Swinburne Uni), GAICD

Extensive career in senior management positions in Australia, United Kingdom and Asia (Hong Kong), as well as running pan regional businesses in Asia and global businesses in UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ, Asia and the US.

Accredited business-mentor using The Art of the Business-Mentor induction program by iMentor-pro

Core skill is marketing and strategy with extensive experience both as a consultant and as senior marketing executive, but have transitioned from that to P&L responsibilities for both small and very large businesses, mostly involving public companies.

Industries mostly in the services sector (financial services), technology and Telco’s, but started career in manufacturing and Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG).

Wide experience in developing and successfully implementing strategy, and taking companies from low growth to high growth dimensions.

Fully supportive of mentoring as a valid engagement peer-to-peer and has used extensively in own career and with members of senior executive management team.

David METHERELL

Bachelor of Law, Newcastle upon Tyne University
Solicitor of Supreme Court, England and Wales
Strategic Business Management Programme; Templeton College, Oxford
Mentor Induction Program; Merryck & Co. Ltd., UK;
Certified, Stolmack Group; Mentor Accreditation Program (as endorsed by CCH).
Human Synergistics individual and organisational effectiveness programme – accredited coach/facilitator.

David’s recent mentoring experience has included:

One on one mentoring, & coaching for key members of leadership team in McKesson Healthcare Perth operation
One on one career mentoring to Managing Director Lion Nathan International, and HR Director Lion Nathan
Executive Mentoring General Management of Real Developments, Ltd, software SME

R. W. (Bob) PENTECOST

AM Bachelor of Engineering (Civil)
Graduate Diploma Business Administration
Bob has worked in both the private sector advising up to and being included in Boards and in Government providing advice to Ministerial and Cabinet level.
Mentor Induction Program, Merryck & Co. Ltd., UK;
Certified, Stolmack Group Mentor Accreditation Program (as endorsed by CCH).
Bob is an experienced CEO and as such has mentored many senior executives.
Business-Mentor to Senior Telstra Executives across:
- Finance
- HR/IR
- Project Delivery
- IT
- Maintenance

Geoff SCOTT
Dip Labour Relations & Law, Dip PA, MAICD

B Commerce University of Queensland
MBA University of Queensland
ASIA-Associate of the Securities Institute of Australia
ASA-Associate Australian Society of Accountants
Henley Management College executive development program in Value Based Leadership
Mount Eliza Business School Executive Development Program
Certified, Stolmack Group Mentor Accreditation Program (as endorsed by CCH)
Geoff’s mentoring experience has included:
- One on one executive business-mentoring within AMP
- Senior executive career development as part of leadership improvement and development programs across the senior executive ranks in Prudential Corporation and Exxon Corporation

David STEPHENS
FAICD, FAIM, Mediator

Alumnus of INSEAD (France) Advanced Management Programme.
Participant, UTS Negotiation Course
Accredited business-mentor using The Art of the Business-Mentor induction program by iMentor-pro
Completed LEADR Alternative Dispute Resolution Course. This will lead to accreditation as a Mediator.
Graduate, AICD Company Director Course, Australia
Past President of the Australian Self Medication Industry (the peak industry body representing over-the -counter medicines) and was awarded Honorary Life Membership of the association for my work to the industry.
Certified, Stolmack Group Mentor Accreditation Program (as endorsed by CCH);

Over 17 years managing, coaching and mentoring Chief Executives and Functional Directors of Subsidiary Companies. In Boots Group top 250 managers benchmarking against best practice management competency standards, was assessed by Hay McBerr as follows:*

World Class in Moral Courage, Differentiating in Probing and Scanning, Visionary Thinking, Achievement Drive, Taking and Sustaining Initiatives, Team Leadership, Collaboration & Teamwork.
This placed David as one of top 50 managers in Boots Group, which employs 55,000.

*(Competencies were described as Threshold, Core, Differentiating and World Class) It is these qualities David brings to his current mentoring roles with executives.

David’s experience has been in General Management in the highly regulated Pharmaceutical Industry and in Fast Moving Consumer Goods.

In these positions, David has been a change agent, leading organisations and his teams through substantial change, while continuing to deliver required results.

He has acted as mentor for the Managing Director of a South African business, when that business was going through a plant closure.

He continues to act as mentor to the newly appointed Managing Director of Boots Healthcare’s UK business.

Last major role at Boots Healthcare was Regional Director, based in the UK for over two years. Directly responsible (as Managing Director) for the UK business, leading and extensively mentoring a youthful, but highly regarded team, while mentoring and coaching direct report General Managers in remote locations in Ireland, Sydney and Auckland.

Prior to that David was Managing Director of Boots Healthcare Australia. Over 7 years in that role the business was totally restructured, transforming it from a modestly profitable integrated manufacturing and marketing organisation with a prescription medicine outlook to a lean, highly successful Fast Moving Consumer Goods Company.

Currently David is Chairman of Healthzone Limited and a Non Executive Director of the University of Western Sydney’s UWS Connect Limited. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and Honorary Lifetime Member of the Australian Self Medication Industry.

Richard STONEHAM
BA Hons, ACMA

Honours Degree Industrial Economics
Associate of Institute of Chartered Accountants
Participant, three US-based professional systems thinking courses
Licensed business broker
Accredited Associate of Institute for Independent Business
Member Society of Learning Australia (SoLA)

Certified, The Art of the Business Mentor two-day program by iMentor-pro

Richard Stoneham has extensive general and senior executive management and consulting experience across many industries, living and working in Europe, the Middle East and Australasia. He has exceptional cross-cultural experience.

Richard has lived and worked in UK, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and New Zealand and has worked on assignments across Asia/Pacific, USA and other Middle East countries. Prior to starting his own business consulting business and becoming involved in various joint ventures he concluded his corporate career as an Asia/Pacific executive in a small global group of executive change agents working for EDS, the global IT services company. Prior to this Richard had experience in various director roles in companies ranging across engineering, trading, property development, construction materials, executive search and IT industries.

Richard has been an active business leader and change specialist with heavy involvement in shaping mergers, transformation programs, strategic organisational realignments and capability development programs. His approach to change management is based on systems thinking and people leadership principles that recognize the reality of complexity in today’s business world and that traditional scientific management approaches often do not provide an adequate answer to complex business problems. His approach enables change programs to ‘stick’ successfully and realize the intended business benefits.

Due to his interest in managing successful change in complex environments Richard has developed and delivers executive education workshops on ‘Implementing Strategy’ through the Centre for Continuing Education, University of Sydney and other organisations outside of Sydney.

Richard has been involved in business-mentoring for many years, providing support to corporate employees, start-up owners and consulting and business advisory clients. Richard’s extensive business experience, consultative approach and people skills means he is well-suited to the role of sharing explicit tacit knowledge.

Richard has an honours degree in Industrial Economics and is slightly embarrassed to admit he is qualified as an accountant, but with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, whose approach, he claims, is to look forward rather than backward and in fact grounded his excellent financial analysis and management skills. He is a member of the Society of Learning.

David WARNEKE
FAICD

Graduate, AICD Company Director Course, Australia
Mentor Induction Program, Merryck & Co. Ltd., UK;
Certified, Stolmack Group Mentor Accreditation Program (as endorsed by CCH)
Dave’s recent mentoring experience has included delivery of:
- One on one executive mentoring, Group Executive Level – Optus;
- One on one executive mentoring, Senior Marketing Executive – British American Tobacco;
- One on one individual and team based executive coaching & mentoring, SAS Australia (six executives including the CFO & CEO)

Dave Warneke is a very experienced Senior Executive, with 25 years of Business and Information Technology experience, delivering services across a wide variety of industries. As a Professional Services Executive, he has held Chief Executive Officer, Managing Partner and Asia Pacific Executive roles as well as several Executive and Non-executive Board positions. As an Executive Consultant, he has specialised in the delivery of large scale Business and IT transformation programs, for a Chief Executive and Board Client base. Dave is now the Managing Director of The Fusion Group, which specialises in delivering Chief Executive and Board level transformation services.

His career started in IT where it progressed into Senior Management and large-scale Project Management roles. He then successfully moved into the consulting industry, delivering IT transformation projects to the Banking, Insurance and Telecommunications industries. Many of these projects focussed on developing strong IT Senior Management teams, effective stakeholder management, sourcing strategies, and overall IT effectiveness. After several years of successful consulting he progressed to managing SMS Consulting’s Sydney business, where he delivered significant growth in revenue and profit.

As the Executive Partner responsible for the Minerals Energy & Utilities (MEU) industry group at Ernst & Young, Dave was one of the key members of the Executive Committee of the Consulting business. As well as growing this group to be the largest revenue producer he also managed a $350m Global Shared Services project reporting into the CEO of BHP. After the successful completion of this project he went on to become the Managing Partner of Ernst & Young consulting where he negotiated and delivered the sale & integration of EYC into Cap Gemini across Australia & New Zealand. Following this integration he was appointed as Chief Executive where he delivered top quartile profits in a very difficult market for consulting services.

With his outstanding leadership track record and a strong commitment to delivering sustainable outcomes with Clients, as a Mentor he brings specific experience to enable Senior Executives to personally lead the migration of their businesses and teams to new levels of performance in constantly changing operating environments.

Craig WELCH

Three decades of business experience in Australian and South-East Asia in CEO, Country Manager and Chairman roles.
Certified, The Art of the Business Mentor two-day program by iMentor-pro

Craig Welch has over three decades of business experience in Australia and Asia as a consultant to Government and Enterprise, and as Chairman and Director of a number of public and private companies. His IT experience includes a variety of roles with IBM, managing the initial Australian presence of Sun Computer, and establishing the Teradata marketing activities of NCR Japan.

Based in Singapore, Craig was Head of Technology Marketing Asia Pacific for Visa International, and then went on to successfully represent a number of companies in the Asia- Pacific region. These included Digicash NL and BroadVision, Inc. He consulted extensively to Unisys Japan on its foray into large systems, as well the as the Singapore Government on eCommerce security and the Chinese Government on the mechanisms of credit card schemes.

On his return to Australia, Craig became Managing Director of Sausage Software, Australia’s first listed Internet company. Over the next two years, Sausage grew from a single product company with 35 people and revenues of $5 million, to an eBusiness solutions house with over 1500 people, revenues of more than $150 million and a market capitalization of more than $2 billion. Now that the Web is a core component of business Craig has assisted a variety of companies to establish their Internet strategies, providing integration with their principal business processes.

Craig’s skills particularly revolve around international business. For a number of years he was a keynote speaker and chair of many Banking and eCommerce forums throughout South-East Asia.

Craig has expertise in the following areas:

Effective management of result-oriented teams
Organisational effectiveness – structuring to meet the challenges
Strategy implementation and tactics to achieve results
Coaching for communications and effective thinking
Managing the differing expectations of a variety of stakeholders
High technology uptake and implementation

Those who know Craig will describe him as being:

Forthright and honest
Insightful
Not afraid to challenge the status quo
Results oriented
Willing to go ‘outside the box’
Optimistic
Able to draw out the best in others

Ian WIGHTWICK
ASTC (CHEM); B Ec; M ADMIN (Monash)

FAICD Academic majors and publications – Major Organisational Change; Marketing; Economic Statistics

Victoria Councillor and Member National Law (Advisory) Committee Australian Institute Company Directors

Accredited business-mentor using The Art of the Business-Mentor induction program by iMentor-pro

Exceptional international and domestic career spanning technical, marketing, production, consulting, general management and chief executive roles in oil, chemical, food and paper industries.

Former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of PaperlinX Ltd, an ASX top 100 public company with paper manufacturing operations in Australia and marketing paper operations in 40 countries including Australia, New Zealand, UK, Europe, Canada, USA and SE Asia.

Specialist areas involving services to international and Australian clients for his consulting and executive business-mentoring include major organizational change, business restructuring, corporate strategic development, acquisitions (international and within Australia), divestments and major IT development projects.

Wide experience with people at very senior levels covering corporate and government in the national and international arenas.

Holds non-executive directorships including The Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health Ltd. Ian is also chairman of two private investment companies. He was formerly a director of Promentum Ltd.