Career Bio

Positions & Committees 1998 - Current Managing Director - Westwell Consultants Pty Ltd trading as KeyChange. An IT and management consultancy. 2003 - Current General Manager - Peach Home Loans providing high level broker services, staff and contractor management, customer service and IT development and management. 1998 -2002 Managing Director - TeleTask Pty Ltd - A business developed in 1998 with Federal Government support to develop new opportunities for regional Australians. It operated as an internet based outsource broker between city based clients and over 900 contract teleworkers. 1992 - 98 Founding Coordinator of The Walcha Telecottage - Australia's first and still most successful telecottage / telecentre. 1982 - 90 Director of New England Office Systems - Managing Director 1989 -90. I was a co-founder of what was the largest rural based Apple Computer Dealership in Australia .

Committees and Panels 1998-2001 Rural Communities Program Advisor to Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson 1999-2000 Rural Transaction Centres Advisor - Sen. Ian Macdonald 1999-2000 Sydney Olympics Roads & Transport Authority - Panel Expert 1996-1998 President of The Australian Rural Telecentre Association