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Michael brings an intellect, entrepreneurialism and a breadth of international experience highly complementary to diverse management teams and opportunity sets. In a business context: I am focused on advisory services to Boards and organisations from Information Technology to Business strategy. Equity investments and business development with specific focus on Asia. I have a passion for the implication of social media on commerce as we know it today.

Michael brings a unique combination of leadership and actionable strategic thinking delivering on annual product and services business plans of between USD30m to USD250m+ over the last 12 years. Leading/concluding complex IT services, outsourcing, integration & software solutions/transactions raging from USD5m to USD120m++ per year.

The Fundamentals of this unique combination are:

1. Repeatable and reliable process based change management approach supported by his military, academic, accounting, and cultural experience.
2. Eye for detail underpinned by financial accounting foundation and leadership in customer engagements. Confidence to make tough decisions.
3. International Business and Social Media savvy.
4. Sales leadership acumen in a multi-cultural, multi-geographic, and varied maturity market.
5. Ability to arbitrage customer, partner, and company objectives and goals.
6. Moral authority, credibility and leadership in building trusted culture and engaged teams. 7. Reputation for execution in the market and industry.
8. Most importantly the ability to learn from every interaction with customers and feed those insights back into corporate strategy efficiently and expeditiously.

Specialties

• Social Media Strategies
• Banking, Capital Markets, Insurance, Telecommunications & Government
• Core System Replacement
• IT, SaaS & Software
• Accounting
• Strategic Management
• Sales Coaching

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