Directors

 

Malcolm Park

Chairman

BA Accountancy (1st Class), MBA

Malcolm is a Chartered Accountant with over 25 years in Investment Management, Superannuation and Consulting. Originally from Edinburgh where he graduated in Accounting and Finance and trained with KPMG, Malcolm worked for the Royal Bank of Scotland, Newton Investment Management and Mellon Global Investments as Chief Operating Officer. He moved to Australia in 2002 to head up the local Mellon operation. Since 2004, he has run a small consultancy business specialising in supporting companies with a need for specialist business and financial experience. In 2006 Malcolm became an Australian citizen.

Malcolm has worked with IT and Consulting businesses in UK and Australia.

 

 

 

Peter Jon Hartshorne

Managing Director

B.Eng, MBA

Peter Jon is a Sydney based Executive with over 25 years in the ICT Sector. Following completing of his Engineering Degree [Latrobe University 1981] he completed a valuable 6 years cadetship with the global consulting giant McKinsey working in USA, UK and the Middle East. He then returned to Australia to complete his MBA [Melbourne Graduate School of Management] and subsequently managed a series of major Systems Integration programs for Telstra, until 1994 when he became the Managing Partner of the Infinity Group.

He is a staunch advocate of Australian ICT companies launching successfully into global markets and now sits on the boards of 6 other private companies and one ASX listed company, Blaze International [BLZ].

Peter Jon became a Non–Executive Director in 2006 and has now become the Managing Director of entire Solutions I.T. Group.

 

 

Justin Cantrill

Chief Operating Officer

 

Justin Cantrill brings 11 years experience as an IT professional focusing on IT within the education market. In 1994 Justin joined the prestigious John XXIII College as a junior engineer and was rapidly promoted to IT Manager in 1996. Justin was responsible for architecting and managing the school’s new ICT infrastructure, which laid the foundation for John XXIII College being recognised as one of the benchmark IT schools in Australia.

In 1999, Justin formed Solutions I.T. with Jim Watkins. Since this time Justin’s hard working, hands-on approach to management has materially contributed to Solutions I.T.’s transformation from a relatively simple operation, into a sophisticated business with multimillion dollar international opportunities. Over the past 6 years Justin has effectively managed the company’s growth from just two employees in 1999 to over 25 full time staff plus contractors today. As the head of day to day operations Justin has been materially involved in multimillion dollar projects such as the prestigious, 40 million dollar, “100 Schools Project” for the WA Department of Education.

Currently, Justin is responsible for the day to day operations and management of the Company.

 

 

James Watkins

Non-Exective Director

 

James has an excellent understanding of the education market from the perspectives of its executive, financial, ICT and administrative management having been in the position of a College Business Manager since 1991. He has worked at two large Independent Catholic Colleges over the last 16 years. He is responsible for the day to day commercial operations of the Colleges both of which have had over 1000 students, 150 staff and a turnover of $15m pa. He as been heavily involved in the development of ICT in education over that time and has served on a number of working parties in this area, both at a College and system level.

His background includes experience in banking, auditing and insolvency work before becoming a business owner. He has owned companies in manufacturing and retail industries until his involvement in education in 1991. He is an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management. James is one of the founding Directors of Solutions I.T.

 

 

David Ledger

Non-Exective Director

MSDIA, MAICD

David is a Non–Executive Director of two ASX listed companies, Hydrotech International Limited and Mint Wireless Limited. He is also an Executive Director and founding shareholder of Capital Investment Partners Pty Ltd, corporate advisors to the Company and the Offer

David has 20 years of experience as a stockbroker, commencing his career in 1985 as a trading floor operator on ASX and later becoming Floor Governor.

In 1991, David left Australia to pursue an institutionally-based stockbroking role in London where he joined James Capel & Co. specialising in broking resource stocks to institutions based in the UK and Europe. In 1994, he joined BZW, the investment banking arm of Barclays Bank as director and senior advisor on their Australian equities desk. In 2001, David returned to Australia to run the Global Sales of Australian equities for ABN AMRO and from 2002–2004, was an Executive Director of the ABN AMRO group.

David has completed studies with the Securities Institute of Australia, is a Master Stockbroker with the Securities & Derivatives Industry Association and is a Responsible Executive of ASX.

 

 

Chetan Chopra

Chief Financial Officer

Chetan Chopra is a Sydney based Chartered Accountant [Institute of Chartered Accountants – India], Associate member of CPA Australia and an MBA [Melbourne Business School].

He has a distinguished 20 year finance and accounting career with several of the global Big 5, including KPMG and PWC. Chetan has also held senior C-Class roles with a range Indian corporates [including Dun & Bradstreet] and start up enterprises.

Chetan also has a rich thorough-bred in the Investment Banking arena with AMBIT RSM Private Ltd where he played a pivotal role in building one of the biggest and most successful Merger and Acquisition practices in the sub-continent.

 

 

 

Janine Rolfe

Company Secretary

Janine is a sole practitioner specialising in company secretarial services. She is the Company Secretary of ASX listed entities, Pryme Oil, Gas Limited, Quickfix Limited and Tishman Speyer Office Fund.

Previously, Janine was a company secretary at Qantas Airways Limited where she was responsible for the day-to-day management of all public company issues arising in the Qantas Group. Prior to that, Janine was a Solicitor at Mallesons Stephens Jaques, working in the mergers and acquisitions and corporate advisory teams.

 

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