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Kevin Soper
- Chief Innovator
(Australia)
Dip Bus (FLM); Cert Electrical
Engineering
Kevin is a founder of Digislide and has had
involvement in the innovation behind each of
the Company’s patents.
Kevin has previously established and expanded
a number of different businesses. He is an
audiovisual specialist, with seven years of
experience with the Audio Visual Department
of the Adelaide Convention Centre. He is also
licensed at the highest level of pyrotechnics
management, and has been involved in managing
some of South Australia’s largest pyrotechnics
displays. Kevin is Designated Inventor of all but
one of Digislide’s current patents.
Kevin resigned as a Director in June 2007 to
focus on his operational responsibilities covering
innovation and research and development.
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Mark Gafner -
Chief Strategy Officer
BSc Elec Eng (Dist); BSc Elec Eng
(Hon)
Mark has extensive experience in the field
of electronic engineering. Mark founded
the electronics and software engineering
company, ANSYS, in South Africa in 1987 and
was Managing Director of the company until
leaving South Africa to live in Australia early in
2003. Mark was responsible for setting ANSYS’
strategies and overseeing their implementation.
He also managed many leading edge
development projects and, as a qualified
electronics engineer specialised in analog electronics design. Mark’s experience gained
over 15 years as Managing Director of ANSYS
has placed him in good stead for his current role
with Digislide.
Mark has been involved with Digislide since 2003, originally as a consultant responsible for
management of commercialisation of electronic products, and more recently as Manager of
Technical Information Systems.
In his current capacity of Chief Strategy Officer
with Digislide, Mark is involved in determining
technology and product development,
commercialisation, and production and
distribution strategies, and communicating
these to the appropriate departments. Mark also
participates in the planning of activities towards
these goals and ensures that implementation
occurs on time and to budget.
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Bruce Newell - Chief Technical
Officer and Business
Development Manager
(The Americas)
BS Chemistry; AAS Chem Tech
Bruce was appointed to Digislide’s executive
management team in May 2007, after acting
in an advisory role to the Company and its
predecessors since 2003. He has had over 30
years experience with Eastman Kodak (based in
US and Europe), with a range of diverse roles,
including New Business Development Manager,
Business Process Manager and Worldwide
Product Manager. His most recent role with
Eastman Kodak was General Manager of Kodak’s
Immersive Imaging Business (a High Fidelity
Stereoscopic 3D Display Technology). Bruce
has established and led cross-functional, multiorganisational
businesses as well as product
and research and development teams. His high
level of proficiency in research and development
management, product commercialisation
processes and fully integrated product delivery
methodologies for worldwide sites has gained
him three Kodak Special Recognition Awards and two Kodak Manufacturing and Research
Engineering Innovation Awards.
Bruce holds two critical roles within Digislide;
as Chief Technical Officer, where his operational
role is to advise the Board in consolidating
Digislide technology strategies and as Business
Development Manager (Digislide Americas, Ltd),
where he is responsible for product penetration
into The Americas.
Bruce opened the Digislide Americas, Ltd office
in Rochester (New York) in June 2007 and is
based in the United States of America.
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Joseph Tan –Business Development
Manager
(Greater Asia Region)
ITC Electrical Engineering
Joseph is based in Singapore, and is responsible
for Digislide’s expansion within the Greater Asia
Region. His key areas of expertise are in supply
and logistics, marketing for new accounts and
the reinvention of work processes to create value
chains and cost savings to clients.
Prior to his appointment with the Company,
Joseph was the Assistant Marketing Manager
for the Asia Pacific Region for Sony Electronics
(Singapore) Pte Ltd, in the Semiconductor Sales
& Marketing department. His responsibilities
included managing sales and marketing
activities through distribution channels in
Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Australia, India
and South Africa. Joseph was also the Sony
Country Manager for India, South Africa and
Australia, where he facilitated the introduction
of new products into the marketplace, creating
new customers and new innovative products
within the company’s industrial, IT and consumer
markets applications.
Joseph graduated from the Singapore Technical
Institute with majors in Electrical Engineering,
and has won a number of awards from Sony
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Christian Outhred – Business Development
Manager
(Europe)
B Int Bus; Ad Dip Bus Dev Mgt; Dip
Bus (FLM); CPMgr
Christian is a member of the Board of the
Company’s US wholly-owned subsidiary,
Digislide Americas, Ltd. Christian has been
involved with the Digislide Group of Companies
since their incubation as a client of the Workright
Group. Christian was previously Business
Development Manager of the Workright Group
and, in this role, assisted Digislide’s business
development. He has also represented the
Company in trade and investment forums in
Sydney (Australia), Xi’an (China) and Singapore.
Christian has had over 13 years of international business development experience, on four
different continents. He worked for the Workright
Group in Australia from 1995 to 2003. In 2003
he relocated to London, where he worked for
Michael Page International and Pure Recruitment
Group. In 2004, he was awarded first prize by the
Financial Times in a highly-competitive, UK-wide
B2B business development contest.
From his London base, Christian worked for the Company on a consultancy basis, to help
prepare for the international commercialisation
of Digislide products toward market entry in
Europe and the UK; focusing on MantaRay™
and the Digismart™ Miniature Projection
Technologies. He rejoined Digislide to direct
the Company’s marketing and business development efforts in Europe. Christian has recently relocated and is now based in Italy. |
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Peter Rubinshtein – Chief Technologist
M Sc (Distinction) Quantum
Physics; Dip Bus (FLM)
Peter was originally a consultant to the founders
of the Company (from 1999 to 2006) and has
been responsible for all major electronics design
on Digislide’s products. Peter is a Designated
Inventor on Digislide’s patents for optical
engines. He has worked with lasers, optics,
underground VHF telecommunications systems,
high voltage programmable micro-current
wave-form synthesizers, high heat dissipation
and electronic load control systems, and
brings scientific rigour to the Digislide research
and development team, as well as a clear
understanding of design for manufacturability.
Until 2006, Peter was employed as Senior
Development Engineer with Tytronics, a
leading Australian electronics manufacturing
group. He gained his formal qualifications
and initial scientific experience as a Radio
Physicist in Georgia (USSR), and gained a MSc
(with Distinction) in Quantum Physics from
the Department of Physics at Tbilisi State University, where his main role was to design and construct electronic loading equipment for
measuring output parameters and testing of
communications and control systems |
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Tim English – Marketing Manager
BA Comm St; Cert IV Multimedia
Tim has been and is responsible for the
management of the Digislide brand and all
marketing and communications. Prior to his
current appointment, he held management
positions with Rivers Australia, a national retail
chain and Workright Australia, a Registered
Training Organisation.
Tim has provided technical marketing services to
the research and development team, including
market research and trend analysis. He has
assisted the Company capture global media
attention through international press as well as
national and international exhibitions, including
DEMO 06, Innovate! Europe and CeBIT Australia.
As a result of his positioning work, Digislide was exposed to the attention of national and
international technology “show” judges. As a
consequence, Digislide was declared Episode
Winner and Judges’ Choice winner for ABC TV’s
“New Inventors” program, designated a “Target A
ICT Client” by the South Australian Government
for its fast growth, gained international acclaim
as a finalist at the World Technology Summit (San
Francisco) and gained third place winner’s prize
at the ICT Secrets of Australian IT Innovation
Awards. |
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