I was born in Winchester, UK before immigrating to Australia when I was 9 months old. I was raised in a sleepy coastal town just south of Coffs Harbour in NSW (lived on the beach for the first 17 years of my life!). I moved to Brisbane to do my undergraduate at QUT many years ago (Bachelor of Engineer – Electrical and Computing Science).

I spent over a decade with local Brisbane company Voxson where I was the Chief Technology Officer. Voxson was Australia’s only mobile handset design house and was ahead of its time with design methodologies, open architecures and technology. I built the team from 3 technical staff to over 80 people, establishing facilities throughout Asia. We licensed our technology to tier 1 handset vendors in Asia and Europe. I was one of the lead executive involved in the Voxson IPO. 

I then moved to Europe in 2005, spending 2 years based in Windsor, UK working as the Chief Technology Officer for one of the mid tier mobile phone companies in Europe (managing large multi discipline technical teams in the UK, Finland, Russia and China). I was responsible for the technology direction, roadmap and innovation of the business as well as the core R&D. We launched the first mobile phone in the world with inbuilt GPS and SatNav in 2006. I then moved to Barcelona for 1 year (2007) working in a startup focusing on voice based services on mobile devices and accessories

I decided to came back to Brisbane in 2008 and co-founded a company called Ozmota. Ozmota’s vision is to solve information overload, and thereby drive increased productivity through socially empowered knowledge and discovery networks that are contextualised to the user’s current needs, thereby focusing their attention. Our digital lifestyles are getting busier by the day. The explosion of available material on the web coupled with the ever increasing mechanisms to interact is driving the need for a more effective, efficient, relevant and natural interface to support access to information, applications and people. We are suffering from “constant partial attention” where our attentiveness is constantly divided amongst an overabundance of information sources. The net result of this information overload is loss of opportunity, loss of focus and a poverty of attention in general. More details at Ozmota and when we come out of stealth.

Career History

• Co-founder, Chief Technology Officer and Board Member

  Ozmota

  2007 — Present (2 years)

  Based in Brisbane, Australia

  Ozmota is currently in stealth focusing on a broad range of technologies and products centred around mobile device, semantic web, attention economy, AI and a hyper personal user experience.

  Our vision is one of unlimited experiences and interactions generating a new human sense through convergence of impulse, community and device sensation.

  Contact me if you would like to have a confidential introduction to more detail.

• Chief Technology Officer

  Benefon

  October 2005 — 2007 (2 years)

  Based in Windsor, UK.

  Benefon is a Tier 3 mobile terminal developer founded in 1988 and focusing on niche market mobile telephony through a broad range of products and associated services.

  From its headquarters in Salo, Finland, Benefon has positioned itself at the forefront of combined mobile phone and GPS navigation technology. Benefon’s products integrate global GSM communications services with GPS positioning, utilising clear mapping and cartography.

  Benefon’s solutions include consumer products, in-vehicle and machine-to-machine mobile equipment and software applications.

  In today’s highly competitive mobile communication marketplace, the new TWIG Discovery handset is a world first, and places the whole spectrum of personal safety, navigation and location-finding into one market-leading product.

• Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering

  SouthWing

  2007 — 2007 (less than a year)

  Based in Barcelona, Spain.

  The company is an innovation-focused company, which develops and markets personal area short range wireless headset, devices and services for mobile operators.

  The company’s core business is the development of intelligent wireless headsets, devices and service platforms that improve mobile operators ARPU using patented technologies.

  The company’s success is driven by innovation with a focus on embedded software, the user experience, design, leadership and exceptional quality.

• Chief Technology Officer

  Voxson

  1999 — June 2005 (6 years)

  Voxson was Australia’s only company developing wireless technology in GSM/GPRS devices (both complete handsets and wireless modules) and integrated services. Voxson had complete technology to deliver mobile phone turn key solutions for niche market players. Some of the key successes were successful transfer of technology to tier 1 and tier 2 mobile handset manufacturers.

• Director of Research and Development

  Voxson

  December 1997 — December 1999 (2 years 1 month)

• Principal Design Engineer

  Voxson

  January 1996 — December 1997 (2 years)

• Design Engineer

  Voxson

  November 1994 — January 1996 (1 year 3 months)

• Undergraduate Engineer

  Voxson

  December 1993 — November 1994 (1 year)

  Final year thesis on “Second generation digital cordless technology – CT2″