Wednesday, 20 Aug 2008

Leadership



Dave Warneke
Non-executive Chairman

Dave is a very experienced Senior Executive and Company Director, with experience across a variety of industries, including information technology, financial services, tourism, professional services, construction and mining. As a Senior Executive, he has held Chief Executive Officer, Managing Partner and Asia Pacific Executive roles in the IT and Professional Services industries. As a Company Director he has held Executive, Non-executive and Advisory Board positions in Australian privately owned businesses, ASX listed businesses, as well as local Boards of globally listed and joint venture companies.  Dave's role as a Non-Executive Director of Portland Group encompasses working with the management team to develop and guide the strategy of the business with a particular focus on identifying and prioritising growth opportunities.


Gavin Solsky
Chief Executive Officer

Gavin is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Portland Group. After completing a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) / Law Degree at UNSW, Gavin spent a short period at a major Australian law firm. He then joined the global strategic consulting firm, Bain & Co. where he worked for a number of years in Australia and the United States. He has successfully led the implementation of strategic supply chain and procurement improvement programmes with clients across all industry sectors.


Dave Gardiner
Managing Director Consulting ANZ

Dave graduated from Cambridge University with a Masters Degree in Engineering. He started his career as an engineer with Shell Exploration & Production and thereafter enjoyed a 7-year career with Mars Europe. Dave held numerous change management roles in Supply Chain driving cross-cultural business unit initiatives (eg. supplier integration). Dave moved to Australia where he joined A.T Kearney, leading numerous ‘procurement transformation’ projects in the manufacturing, retail and services sectors. Dave joined Portland Group in 2002 and since then has led procurement improvement programmes with a number of large manufacturing and retail organisations.


Olaf Schatteman
Vice President Supply Chain Services

Olaf holds a Masters Degree in Business Economics from the Universities of Maastricht in the Netherlands and Seville in Spain. He joined Portland from Accenture where he was a senior member of the South East Asian (and previously European) Supply Chain practice. Olaf has extensive knowledge of Strategic Supply Chain Management, including network and logistics optimisation and supply chain planning, and significant experience in developing and implementing large-scale supply chain transformation strategies. Prior to his consulting career, Olaf worked for Philips at their global Headquarters. He has worked from bases in Europe and Asia Pacific in the consumer goods, pharmaceutical, hospitality, chemicals, communications, media, high tech, and airline industries.


Tom Zielinski
Vice President Supply Chain Consulting Asia Pacific

Tom has over 15 years supply chain management, consulting and system integration experience across a broad range of industries including automotive, process & discrete manufacturing, public sector, distribution, retail/wholesale, high-technology and agricultural sectors. He has led consulting engagements across North America and Asia ranging from supply chain strategy development through organisational restructuring, supply chain optimisation and enterprise-wide process transformation & system implementation projects. Prior to joining Portland Group, Tom held national and regional leadership roles in the supply chain practices of Unisys Corporation, A.T. Kearney and Deloitte Consulting and began his career as a logistics officer in the Canadian Armed Forces. He holds an MBA degree from Ivey Business School, University of Western Ontario and a B.Adm from Royal Military College at Saint John, Canada.



Kay-Meng Soh
Vice President Asia

Kay-Meng has 20 plus years experience in the professional services sector focusing on consulting services and outsourcing. Kay-Meng’s key expertise is in using transformation outsourcing as an enabler to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of business processes for organisations. Before joining Portland Group Kay-Meng served as President and CEO, Capgemini China and was the General Manager for all Capgemini telecommunications business in Asia. Prior to Capgemini, Kay-Meng served as a Partner with Ernst and Young for 11 years.


David Rodgers
Chief Financial Officer

Prior to joining Portand Group Dave worked for Accenture for 10 years in various finance roles in the UK and Australia. Dave has extensive experience of the financial management of consulting work in various industry sectors and has constructed and managed the commercial arrangements for business process outsourcing arrangements in Europe and Asia. Dave’s experience also includes setting up service centres and managing the delivery of IT and finance support from low cost locations. Dave is a Chartered Management Accountant and has a degree in Accounting and Financial Analysis from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the UK.


Enrico Rizzon
Director - Consulting

Enrico graduated from Adelaide University with an Honours Degree in Engineering and has an MBA from Melbourne Business School. He has over 15 years experience with ICI/Orica working in all divisions. Enrico has held both business management and senior change management roles driving cross-cultural business unit initiatives (eg. Procurement, M&A Integration and Restructuring). Enrico joined Portland Group in 2005 to lead its Melbourne Office and since then has led numerous procurement and profit improvement projects in the industrial and FMCG sectors across both medium sized and large companies.


Sue Woodall
Director - Procurement

Sue has extensive leadership experience in Procurement within global companies. Over the past 15 years she has held senior Procurement roles managing operations spanning Asia/Pacific, leading significant Procurement transformation projects, cost improvement programmes within back-office & core operations, process & systems reengineering initiatives and aligning Procurement to revenue generation (sales) strategies. Sue has led Procurement teams in Wang Computers, Qantas Airways and most recently EDS Asia Pacific, developing sound understanding of business process outsourcing and technology products and services.


Larry Klassen
Regional Manager - New Zealand

Larry graduated from the University of Alberta, Canada with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and spent 20 years in electric power and natural gas utilities managing major capital projects and capital programs. Over the past seven years Larry has been involved in Procurement Improvement projects conducting strategic sourcing and managing sourcing programs and conducting negotiation workshops and training sessions. Strategic Procurement management has been across industries as diverse as pipelines, telecommunications, power distribution, banking, insurance, and forestry. Larry joined Portland Group in 2005 and since then has conducted procurement diagnostics, procurement programs, and negotiation training courses.


Clive Nielsen
Regional Manager - Perth

Clive is an experienced procurement professional with over 30 years involvement in engineering, procurement and management in the mining and minerals processing industries. He has held a variety of specialist and management purchasing positions including responsibility for the development of supplier relationship models and processes and the commercial management of a major global alliance relationship. Clive brings years of practical knowledge on how organisations interact both internally and externally and how high performance relationships are developed and managed on local, regional and global levels. More recently, he has provided independent expert consulting services in the fields of Alliancing, Supplier Relationship Management, Global Sourcing and e-procurement.


Mark Reynolds
Associate Director Sustainability

Mark has over 20 years experience in supply chain and manufacturing consulting, and now focuses on sustainability consulting. He initially worked as an industrial engineer in Australian manufacturing and engineering businesses, followed by three years on industry development projects in Indonesia. His consulting career has covered a wide range of industries - food and beverages, supermarket and general retailing, logistics, building products, chemicals, industrial gases, agriculture, automotive, telecommunications, electronics, aerospace, basic metals, pharmaceuticals and electrical products. Mark was a member of Accenture's supply chain leadership team in Australia from 1999 to 2006, when he decided to pursue a change of career into the field of sustainability. Mark holds Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) and Master of Engineering (Electrical) degrees from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.


Tammy Lenga
Human Resources Manager

Tammy graduated from the University of New South Wales with a Bachelor of Commerce, majoring in Human Resources. After spending a number of years at leading recruitment and search companies, she joined Portland Group in 2004. Since joining the group, Tammy has led a strong focus on training and development, implementing a number of HR processes focussed on developing our people. Tammy works closely with the Director team to ensure Portland Group attracts, recruits, integrates and retains the best people for the business.