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simon kellandSimon's areas of focus are: |
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With his background as a senior executive in both small and large organisations in the financial services sector, he has wide experience in developing and coaching executive teams and individuals to deliver growth in a competitive business environment. Simon is passionate about helping people reach their full potential and his successful development of a number of high performing executive teams over the years count as his most satisfying experiences in business. As well as leadership and management positions, in the past 20 years Simon has worked in a variety of senior roles including strategic planning and business development, sales, product development, structured finance, risk management and relationship management. Such a variety of roles in a number of companies, each with a different culture and market position, has given Simon deep insight into the realities of modern executive life – balancing the need to generate shareholder value with the need to build individual and team leadership based on shared values whilst maintaining a healthy and common sense approach to life and work. No easy task! Some of Simon’s executive roles have included Executive Director of Project and Structured Finance at ANZ Investment Bank in Sydney, General Manager of Strategy and Business Development at ANZ Bank’s specialist finance company, Esanda, Managing Director of Esanda Fleet Partners, Chief Executive Officer of ComputerFleet Management, named as one of the BRW Fast 100 companies in each of the two years Simon held that role, and Associate Director in the Investment Banking Group at Macquarie Bank. Simon has consulted to a range of leading companies in the financial services industry in Australia and New Zealand and he is an adjunct faculty member at AGSM where he teaches in the area of strategy implementation. Simon is a Chartered Accountant, a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a Trustee of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia, holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Tasmania and has completed executive programs at IMD in Switzerland and Stanford University Graduate School of Business in the USA. |
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