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Board Members
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Ivor Frischknecht |
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Ivor
Frischknecht joined
Starfish Ventures in
2005 after 15 years
of hands-on
management and
investing
experience. His
investment focus is
Cleantech and
enterprise software.
He has spent more
than ten years in
senior operational
management roles,
including as CEO, in
energy, software and
internet companies.
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Lex
McArthur |
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Lex has over 22
years' experience in management
roles in the finance, technology
and mining sectors. He has
extensive operational experience
with technology start-ups as CEO
of one of Australia's leading IT
investment incubators from 2000
to 2002 and prior to this as CEO
of an IT service company and a
multimedia publisher. He is on
the boards of Space-Time
Research, Redfern Broadband
Networks and Redfern Optical
Components. |
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Wayne
Fitzsimmons |
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Wayne is a
partner in the MGroup, a
boutique investment company
based in Melbourne, Australia
with offices in Washington, DC.
He and his two partners provide
a broad range of professional
advice to high technology IT and
Biotech companies in the area of
management, business planning
and legal services. Wayne is an
experienced executive who has
worked extensively in the USA
(10 years), UK (4 years) as well
as in his home country of
Australia.
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Management Team
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Don
McDougall |
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Don McDougall is the CEO of
Space-Time Research.
Prior to Space-Time Research Don
was the Vice
President of Customer Solutions
and Alliances and the Western Region
Commercial Sales at the SAS
Institute. Before its
acquisition by SAS, Don was
President and COO of ABC
Technologies and a long-time
board member. He
has also held the role of
President and CEO of Decision
Dynamics Inc, a developer of Supply Chain
and Optimization software, and CEO
of the Mitron Corporation, a
developer of
manufacturing automation
software. Don was also Vice
President of Sales and Marketing
at Floating Point Systems, and a
long time employee and
divisional Vice President of
Data General Corp. in
Westborough, Massachusetts.
Don holds a Bachelor of Science
in Chemical Engineering from the
University of Alberta and has
attended Executive management
and leadership courses. |
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Warren
Richter |
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Warren Richter joined Space-Time
Research in 2000 as General
Manager Technology Strategy and
is now the Chief of Research and
Technology for Space-Time
Research.
Prior to joining Space-Time
Research, Warren was a senior
executive in several Australian
government agencies including
the Department of Defence, the
Australian Bureau of Statistics
and the Department of
Communications, IT and the
Arts.
Warren holds a Bachelor of
Economics and Master of Science
(IT) degrees. |
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John
Ellenberger |
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John is Space-Time Research’s
General Manager of Marketing,
responsible for overseeing all
components of the company’s
marketing, as well as assisting
in the development of the
company’s strategic and product
direction. He is a long
standing senior member of the
Space-Time Research team, having
originally joined the company as
Product Manager in 1996 at the
request of the company’s
founder. John has been involved
in most of Space-Time Research’s
major sales to national
statistical agencies and federal
government.
Prior to joining Space-Time
Research, John worked with
Statistics New Zealand where he
assisted with the
commercialisation of statistical
outputs, as well as preparing
marketing plans for the Census
and developing new statistical
products and services. John has
also worked with New Zealand
Steel.
John holds a Bachelor of
Commerce degree with a double
major in economics and
marketing.
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Rob
Coulson |
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Rob has been General
Manager Business Development at
Space-Time Research for four
years, and has worked in the
software industry for over 36
years.
Rob, who holds an MA in
Mathematics from Oxford, has
worked in the UK, USA and of
course Australia, where he has
lived for the last 25 years. A
former User Association founder,
Rob has worked with most sectors
of business, industry,
government and finance. |
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Justin
Doherty |
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Justin joined Space-Time
Research in 2006 as General
Manager Services. Justin is
responsible for overseeing the
provision of consulting,
training and support services.
Prior to joining Space-Time
Research, Justin has held
positions as Professional
Services Manager at Information
Builders and Vignette, and Asia
Pacific Services Manager at
Global 360. Justin has also
worked as a Claims Operations
Manager at RACV Insurance.
Justin holds a Bachelor of
Science and a Graduate Diploma
in Accounting. |
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Andrew
Herbert |
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Andrew is Space-Time Research’s
General Manager, Software
Development, responsible for the
company’s software engineering
capability, including product
delivery, the software
architecture roadmap and ongoing
engineering process improvement.
Prior to joining Space-Time
Research in late 2007, Andrew
worked in the Internet Service
Provider industry, as
Information Systems Development
Manager at Pacific Internet and
co-founder of Mira Networking.
Andrew holds BSc (honours) and
PhD degrees in computer science
from Monash University and an
MBA from Melbourne Business
School, and is a member of the
Association for Computing
Machinery.
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Morton
Geppert |
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Morton Geppert is Space-Time
Research’s Country Manager for
UK, responsible for all sales
and operations in one of the
company’s fastest growing
regions. He was recruited to set
up the UK office in October 2006
due to his Management and
Business Intelligence experience
– The region met its phase 1
goals within 6 months. Morton
has made significant
contributions in the successful
extensions of the offering to
Insurance and Telcos and worked
with development in
differentiating the product set
versus generic BI Stack
vendors.
Prior to joining Space-Time
Research, Morton was Strategic
Programs Director and Financial
Services Director at SAS.Over a
career spanning 18 years, he
established and grew the Finance
and Banking Division, their most
successful division ever and
also built the company’s Product
Marketing practice – Morton was
European sales executive of the
year 6 times and Industry
Manager on 7 occasions. He has
also contributed to strategy at
leading Customer Flow and
Customer Relationship vendors
where he transformed the
technological and commercial
propositions.
Morton is a Fellow of the
Chartered Institute of
Marketing. Qualifications
include BA (Econ) Hons from
University of Lancaster,
Strategy Diploma from IMISP (St
Petersberg) and an MBA from
Henley Management College where
he specialized in Customer
Behaviour over the Internet.
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James
Fergusson |
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James joined the
organisation in 2007 as the
General Manager – Finance &
Administration, responsible for
overseeing the global financial,
legal and human resources
functions.
He has been in
the IT industry for the past 12
years, previously with Netspace
Online Systems Pty Ltd (ISP) and
Pacific Commerce Pty Ltd (supply
chain portal). Prior to the IT
industry he worked for Carlson
Marketing Group, who launched
the frequent flyer programs in
Australia and other rewards
programs in the banking and
hotel industries. He has worked in
the US, New Zealand and
Australia.
James is a
Certified Practicing Accountant
(CPA) and is currently a member
of the SME committed at CPA
Australia.
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