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Chief Financial Officer

Appen Pty Ltd is an information technology services company which specializes in Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), Annotation.

Highly experienced executive (CEO and CFO) with 25+ years experience in executive operations and financial leadership roles. My experience covers listed and unlisted companies, in particular startup and high growth companies in the service and IT sectors. Areas of Expertise: High Growth: •Demonstrated track record in managing and supporting growth •Understand and leverage value drivers to maximise profitability •Design and implement scalable systems + processes to support 10x growth with low incremental cost •Strategic and commercial focus to drive value and return Leadership: •Calm, engaging, respectful and collaborative style •Action and results orientated approach to complement fast paced environment •Pragmatic, commercial approach to problem solving and decision making •Good combination of strategy and tactical •Innovative, agile mindset to drive scale and efficiency •Develop high performing teams Well-rounded / Experience: •20+ years in public companies •ASX 100 and ASX 200 exposure and experience •Working with private equity and taking a company through IPO •Current portfolio – Finance, investor relations, legal, corporate development, IT, risk and internal audit •Significant M&A experience •Investor relations •Risk management and governance •Engaging leadership style, good communicator and nurturing and empowering of teams •Significant restructure and change management experience •Significant turnaround and distressed situation experience •Debt restructuring and cash flow management •Negotiation, vendor management and contract execution •Practical, pragmatic, commercial focus •Value add and profit maximisation strategy •Communication with internal and external stakeholders •Start up and growth businesses Key achievements: •Appen - Supported exceptional growth FY15 – FY20 (started Jan 2016) > Revenue up 6.3x to A$600m > Underlying EBITDA up 6.9x to A$109m > Share price growth since listing 4838% (7 Jan 15 – 31 Dec 20) - Supported 10x growth in transaction volumes - Completed 4 acquisitions to date - Turned back office into a competitive advantage •Rubicor Group - Achieved 10x increase in share price - Achieved $89m debt write off by major 4 bank - Supported IPO in June 2007 - Completed 14 acquisitions from May 06 – Feb 08 - Restructured operations and reduced operating costs by $4m - Implementation of enterprise level, shared service back office platform