Bio

I got my first job in a retail store long ago in a land faraway. The last 20 years have been spent in a variety of management and consulting roles including stints as CEO of a an Australian sporting goods retailer and as group wide merchandise/marketing/store planning manager in the DSE division of Woolworth's. In the latter role we launched Australia's first full range, fully trading web site with stock position flagged by store.
I am passionate about educating the next generation of retailers and have done so at Sydney, Macquarie, UTS and Shanghai Jiao Tong Universities.
In 2011 I was appointed Retail Industry Executive in Telstra's Industry Development team where I published six research papers in to the digital disruption of our industry (see links below). I also conceived and staged the annual "Retail Innovation Summit" with partners Adobe, Grant Thornton, Intel, Microsoft and NORA.
I'm currently CEO of retail Innovation specialists ThinkUncommon and a PhD candidate at University of Sydney