About usTaggle Systems Pty Ltd was founded in 2008 by a team of leading wireless technologists and is funded by Australian venture capital firms and private investors. |  |
Management Team
Chris Andrews Chris has spent the last 20 years in a combination of consulting and senior management roles. During this time his primary focus has been on business turn-around and systematic performance improvement. His roles have included Senior General Manager - Strategy for a major international airline. He led the team that developed the turn-around plan that was later awarded the 2008 ATW Phoenix Award - for an airline that has achieved a commercial rebirth through a life-changing business transformation. Since then he has been Managing Director of an international financial services firm based in London, and has sailed from the UK to Australia on a 38 foot yacht. Chris has a BSc (UNSW ‘88) and an MBA (AGSM ‘93). |
Gordon Foyster Gordon was raised on a cane and cattle property in northern NSW. He studied Mathematics at the University of Wollongong and a Masters degree in Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University in California. After working in Silicon Valley in the early 1980's he returned to Australia and joined Austek Microsystems, an integrated circuit start-up modeled on Silicon Valley enterprises. In 1990 Gordon bought a sugar cane farm in the Condong mill area and since then he has worked in both electronics design and farming. He was part of the Radiata team that was Australia's largest ever technology sale (to Cisco) in 2000, and after leaving Cisco was a co-founder of G2 Microsystems. |
Matthew Henderson Matthew was founding director of Klaxon (real-time monitoring to the refrigerated shipping industry) and founding CEO of Secura Shield (RFID). He was also previously CEO of Anam Technology (Korean chip and wireless development company) and Product Development & Manufacturing Manager at Toshiba. |
Thomas Dejanovic Thomas is a systems and chip designer with over 15 years experience, ranging from very large and complex systems to small, low-power, transmit-only asset tags. He spent 9 years at Cisco Systems in Silicon Valley and was later a co-founder of G2 Microsystems. At Cisco he was a Technical Leader, working on system architecture of the Cisco CRS1 and leading ASIC development on the Cisco 12000 and Cisco CRS1. Prior to working at Cisco, Thomas worked in ASIC design at Canon Information Systems Research Australia and Austek Microsystems. |
Richard Keaney Richard has over 25 years of experience in the semiconductor and telecommunications industries in a range of engineering design and management roles. Richard was the first full-time employee of Radiata Communications, which was acquired by Cisco Systems for $600M in 2001, and led the development of the company's first Wi-Fi modem device. Prior to Radiata Richard held various R&D roles at Sydney University, Macquarie University, Jtec Pty Ltd and AWA Microelectronics Pty Ltd. Since leaving Cisco in 2005 Richard worked as an Engineering Manager for G2 Microsystems, a wireless start-up developing low power Wi-Fi solutions, and as a consultant for Sapphicon Semiconductor. Richard holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Sydney University and an MBA from Macquarie Graduate School of Management. |
Board
Brand Hoff Brand has 40 years of experience in the IT industry. Between 1981 and 1985 Brand established the Canberra Consulting Division of CSC, a large US systems consulting company. Until 2001 he was Managing Director of TOWER Software, a business he founded and which he grew to be a Canberra-based multi-national, with subsidiary companies in the USA and UK, and offices in Canada, New Zealand, Northern Ireland and Holland. TOWER was sold to Hewlett Packard in May 2008. Brand is a Director of NICTA (National ICT Austrtalia) and several ICT based SME companies. |
Rob Newman Rob has twice founded and built businesses based on technology from Australian universities and both times successfully enetered overseas markets. These businesses combined have established market values of over $200M. As a PhD student at the University of Western Australia he was the inventor and co-founder of QPSX Communications Pty Ltd which sold products to international telecoms carriers. Rob was also the Founding CEO of Atmohsphere Networks, raising US venture captial and running the company until it was acquired by Ditech Communications. Rob is co-founder and executive director of Stone Ridge Ventures - Western Australian's leading technology venture capital firm. |
Dr John O'Sullivan Formerly a key member of the Indoor Wireless Networking program at the CSIRO John initiated and led the CSIRO research efforts in high performance wireless systems. The technology and research jointly developed from the CSIRO program and Australia's renowned Macquarie University ultimately led to the formation of Radiata in 1997. John joined Radiata as VP of System Engineering in 2000 (acquired by Cisco). Prior to joining Radiata, he was director of techhnology at News Limited, and VP-Asia Pacific of the News Technologry Group of News Corporation. In October 2009 John's ground-breaking developments in wireless networking were recognised when he won the Australian Prime Minister's Prize for Science. |
