Antony is a creative entrepreneur with a wide range of interests. His attention to detail and focus on delivering customer and stakeholder value has allowed him to be successful in a number of diverse areas as her pursues his passions.
His successful corporate career spans more than 25 years. Most recently as a Business Program Manager, working with organisations in the IT, Banking, Mining, Aviation, and Telecommunications industries, as well as the Not for Profit (NFP) sector, including 14 years working with IBM in Australia and Singapore. He specialists in reinvigorating troubled and stalled projects across various industries, implementing strong but flexible governance, and bringing stakeholders on the journey through to completion. With international certifications in Project and Program Management as well as a Master of Business Administration specialising in Technology Management, Antony has more recently been adding value in the CRM space.
He has a passion for all things wine. He holds a Wine Spirit Education Trust (WSET) Level 3 certification and in 2013 established Wine Matchmaker to teaching people how to get “wine confident”. Whether it be preventing “bottle shop shock”, how to wrangle giant wine lists or what wine to bring to a dinner party to impress your friends he provides simple down to earth training and events for people at all levels in their wine journey. He is also committed to showing organisations how to use wine to engage with key clients and staff. Antony is currently studying his Wine Spirit Education Trust Level 4 Diploma.
Antony’s third passion is property. He is a successful property investor and developer, having built up an international portfolio of investment properties. He also puts his Program Management skills to good use, successfully initiating, managing and completing number of lucrative residential property developments as well as consulting on third party property development projects.
He is also a published author. Antony has co-written the only guide for Australians wanting to invest in the New Zealand property market, which harnessed his own experience and lessons learned when sourcing his own New Zealand property portfolio. He continues to mentor a number of property developers and actively participates in the Australian and New Zealand property markets.