Who's Who
The AirData Team
- Chief Executive Officer: Kurt Hansen
- Director: Alistair Swain
- General Manager - National Accounts: Paul Stubbs
- National Software Manager: Kevin McDonnell
- General Manager - Commercial Sales: Peter Johansson
Kurt Hansen
Position: Chief Executive Officer
Why AirData?
"We are Australia's only company whose all-consuming, over-arching purpose is to drive improved business productivity to the bottom line through enterprise mobility."
Top 3 areas of expertise:
- Productivity growth
- Strategic business management
- IT & Telecommunications
Career highlights:
- Driving sales and revenue growth in key divisions of several national and international IT and telecommunications companies - Cisco Systems, Ericsson and Telstra Corporation
- Transforming Symbol Technology's sales model and leading the company well beyond achievement of its financial goals between 2004 and 2006.
- Commenced his career in IT and telecommunications in the Royal Australian Army Signal Corps before moving into private enterprise.
Top 3 personal attributes:
- Strategic thinker
- Inclusive leader
- Skilful communicator
Previous position:
Managing Director of the Symbol Technologies subsidiary in Australia and New Zealand
Qualifications:
Postgraduate studies in Engineering (Telecommunications), Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne
Alistair Swain
Position: Director
Why AirData?
"AirData pushes the conceptual boundaries of Enterprise Mobility in Australia, offering truly 'joined up' solutions to business productivity and efficiency deficits."
Top 3 areas of expertise:
- Systems integration
- Strategic and operational development
- Shareholder communications
Career highlights:
- Driver of new business initiatives in the enterprise mobility space, including entry into the mobility aligned 'payments' industry
- Developed business case and strategy for Ezipin Australia, an electronic recharge and payment systems company.
Top 3 personal attributes:
- Business and technology innovator
- Strategic thinker
- Operational planner
Previous position:
General manager and director of the Total Tel International group for the past 10 years
Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Business (Marketing)
- Post-Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment
- Diploma, Australian Institute of Company Directors
Paul Stubbs
Position: General Manager - National Accounts
Why AirData?
"When we engage with an organisation, we develop a partnership that extends well into the future of their technology roadmap - not just for the life of a particular product and service. That�s why some clients have been with us for more than 15 years."
Top 3 areas of expertise:
- Business strategy
- Business process management
- Client account management
Career highlights:
- More than 30 years local and international commercial management experience
Top 3 personal attributes:
- Service driven
- Strategic thinker
- Passionate advocate of enterprise mobility
Previous position:
Group General Manager, CentreTech Computer Products
Qualifications:
- Undergraduate degree in Business (Accounting)
- Post-graduate studies in Law and Business Process Management
Kevin McDonnell
Position: National Software Manager
Why AirData?
"We give clients boundary-less solutions that can span multiple operating systems and platforms (including VMS COBOL!)"
Top 3 areas of expertise:
- Systems development & integration
- Project management & business analysis
- Management & communications
Career highlights:
- Building AirData's software development team to the level which allowed AirData to become accredited as a Microsoft Certified Mobility Partner in 2006
- Managing a team of 20 software developers at Fairfax responsible for all 24/7 commercial advertising systems
- Developing Fairfax's leading Stock Exchange website and managing the system that processed the entire Fairfax Group's credit card payments.
Top 3 personal attributes:
- Innovative
- Lateral thinker
- Loyal people manager
Previous position:
Software Manager for Fox Symes & Associates
Qualifications:
- Honours degree in Business Studies from the from University of Bradford Management Centre, considered one of the UK's leading business schools in the 1980s.
- Fellow of the UK Institute of Analysts and Programmers
Peter Johansson
Position: General Manager - Commercial Sales
Why AirData?
"I truly believe that our clients' mobility practices are some of the best being deployed around the world. AirData prides itself on solutions which are significantly superior to the industry norm and which result in top industry performance."
Top 3 areas of expertise:
- IT & Telecommunications
- Logistics management
- Strategic business development and management
Career highlights:
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Driving international sales and marketing in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Turkey, India, Australia, New Zealand, South-East Asia and Southern Africa at Putzmeister GmbH, a German manufacturer of major capital equipment.
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Leading the development, manufacture and global launch of the first third generation (3G) Antenna for the cellular telecommunications industry at New Zealand's multi-award winning Deltec Telesystems.
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Head of Sales at PULSE Logistics Systems, a leading specialist in strategic software systems and e-business solutions, including ownership of sales development and management in Australia and internationally.
Top 3 personal attributes:
- Technically astute
- Customer driven
- World savvy and multi-lingual
Previous position:
Head of Sales Operations at PULSE Logistics Systems, a leading specialist in strategic software systems and e-business solutions.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Engineering (Electrotechnology), Polhems, Sweden
- Jurisprudence, School of Economics and Business Administration, Sweden
- Computer Aided Machine Design, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
