Marin Ivezic
Marin Ivezic is a partner in Knowledge Age. Prior to Knowledge Age, Marin established a formidable reputation as one of the leading IT project / program managers in Australasia. He has delivered and turned around programs with budgets of up to $150M for clients in multiple geographies around the world; Marin led one of the largest and most complex software projects in the Financial Services industry globally, delivering on time and under budget; he has implemented software process improvement and Agile implementations in IT organizations of up to 4000 staff; built offshore development centres and managed major outsourcing relationships for some of the worlds leading organisations. As one of the most highly certified project management experts worldwide, Marin is able to deliver projects and programs within a range of frameworks and industries. Marin has also advised governments in Middle East, Africa and Asia on building IT Outsourcing and Business Process Outsourcing capabilities.
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Bryan Fenech
Bryan is a partner in Knowledge Age. Bryan has a proven track record of successfully managed and delivered IT enabled business change projects and programmes since 1992, and has specialized in project portfolio management (PPM) capability implementation and improvement projects since 2001. His clients have included Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Caltex Australia, Sydney Water, American Express, Coca Cola Amatil, Tourism Australia, Baycorp Advantage (now Veda Advantage), Thomson Legal and Regulatory Group (Asia Pacific), the University of Technology (Sydney) and Macquarie University. Bryan delivers lectures in PPM at the University of Technology, Sydney to business and IT leaders who are enrolled in the IT Management Development Program. He has also written journal papers, and presented at international conferences, on the business impact and benefits of PPM, most recently for Management Learning and at the 6th International Conference on Organisational Learning and Knowing (Trento, Italy), the Project Management Institute Global Congress 2008 – Asia Pacific (Sydney, Australia), and the Project Management Institute Global Congress 2006 – Asia Pacific (Bangkok, Thailand). Bryan is a member of the Project Management Institute (Sydney Chapter), the PPM SIG and the International PPM Forum.
Ken Dovey
Ken is an advisor to Knowledge Age. Ken is the Director of the IT Management Program at the University of Technology, Sydney. He has over 30 years experience in academic roles in South African and Australian universities, leading to professorial appointments in the area of strategic leadership. He has consulted to a wide range of global businesses, governments and non-profit organizations since 1981; work that sees him engaged as a leadership coach to senior executives. He lectures regularly on executive education programs at business schools around the world. Through Knowledge Age, Ken is delivering his popular 2-day workshop - Leadership In The Knowledge Age.
Grant Wood
Grant is a Senior Director in Knowledge Age. Grant has an extensive experience as an IT delivery manager and consultant and as a successful business manager and entrepreneur. His background includes IT Management roles in Financial Services industry; Delivery Management and General Management roles in Telecommunications industry - such as Hutchison and Optus; Senior Delivery Management role in IBM. Amongst other achievements, he managed the launch of Lime Taxis for Macquarie Bank; within Macquarie Bank he started a payments business to provide mobile payment terminals, corporate account products, clearing and settlement functions; he managed the business as the CEO after the business was sold and he grew the business organically and through acquisition to become the only truly national, full service competitor to the dominant incumbent.
Darryl Clark
Darryl is a Senior Director in Knowledge Age. He has over 30 years of experience as a senior IT executive and IT management consultants. His roles include senior IT management positions at some of the largest US government contractors such as Raytheon and Lockheed Martin and a CIO position at Boston Group. Prior to joining Knowledge Age, Darryl founded and managed successful IT professional services companies in Europe and USA.
Steve Theiss
Steve is a Senior Director in Knowledge Age. He is a career IT program manager with over 30 years of experience managing some of the most complex IT programs in the world. His latest engagements include management of large parts of the UK National Health Service (NHS) IT programme and management of an online portal for European Commission. Steve managed IT programmes and IT service delivery for number of Global 500 companies including Royal Dutch Shell, Gazprom, Sony, Bombardier, Thales and others.
John Farina
John is a Senior Director in Knowledge Age.
