Jason Romney

Summary

Jason is an accomplished leader - achieving profitable sales and revenue growth by developing strategies, action plans, people, capability and culture. As a barrister at the Victorian Bar, former tech startup founder/CEO and senior editor with some of the world’s best known media brands, Jason brings a distinctive perspective to solving business problems and innovating. He has strong recent domain knowledge in IoT and all aspects of smart city development, having led the strategy and played a key role in Telstra’s smart city strategic sales since 2016. Jason brings broad and deep management experience (including of Agile operating models) in a variety of technology businesses. These include IoT, data stewardship and analytics, cloud services, workplace innovation, mixed media platforms, telecommunications, ICT and digital transformation, both locally and globally. Jason has experience in corporate mergers, acquisitions and partnering, as well as Board / Stakeholder relationship management. Jason’s expertise includes: • Executive leadership and management of teams – setting goals & KPIs • Strategy development – the what and how of expansion, penetration and acquisition • Coaching and development of people and teams – culture and performance • Improving operational effectiveness and efficiency • Collaborative engagement to drive innovation and product development • Business Development, sales and marketing • Establishing, nurturing and cultivating industry networks • Producing thought leadership insight collateral • Individual and group communication / presentation skills • Accountability for financial performance – P&L / Balance Sheet Technology domain experience includes: • Consulting, R&D, innovation & software development • Effective, human-centred, tech-enabled approaches to wicked problems and painpoints • Smart city and digital government solutions, engagement and strategy • Big Data and IoT platform analytics, automation, security, messaging and transformation • Managed cloud services, environmental monitoring & community resilience connectivity • Telematics, asset tracking, safety/CCTV, smart worker spaces, data hubs and citizen services.