THE GAIA PARTNERSHIP - Key Persons
Darren is a scientist, who got into advertising as a copywriter and ended up a creative director. After 15 years in advertising he realised when applied beyond simply the promotions function and managed effectively, marketing provides organisations with the opportunity to deliver a competitive advantage through innovation, resulting in company growth.
Georgina's experience has been gained across a variety of industries with some of Australia's best-known companies. She has been instrumental in implementing significant transformational changes and have the skills to take complex projects from design to successful implementation. Utilising her strong communication and leadership skills together with a pragmatic, collaborative, business focused approach, Georgina has delivered change across many aspects of business including outsourcing, cost out, PMOs, major programs of work, innovation, processes and controls, major bank integration and IT operations. Georgina has managed operational budgets up to $600m with capital budgets up to $100m and teams of over 80 people.
Currently looking at a number of new extremely high tech environmental technologies that are working on significant environmental problems such as water contamination, waste plastic and food waste. Each of these areas are very interesting and concerning. For many parts of the world water is a greater problem than CO2 emissions. But it is not a simple matter of filtering water, the pollution is at a chemical level. Plastics are probably the most complex ecological problems to understand. It has global significance and the problem is made worse because of the diversity of types of plastics which make recycling and easy word but difficult task.
Job Titles:
- Professional Services and Channels
Tom has been part of the Gaia team for over ten years. He leads the Professional Services and Channels Program for the business. Tom is a dedicated and proven business operation and commercialisation specialist who leads teams in the Asia Pacific to analyse business operations and implement CO2Counter technology so they can drive carbon and complexity from operations. Tom is an adept change agent who can skillfully embed Gaia's CO2Counter solutions in client organizations to enable data-driven decision making, render carbon footprint reduction, and ROI modeling using data from disparate sources. This helps clients achieve sustainable under target carbon management. In addition to this Tom has spent much of his career commercialising and monetising technology solutions and channel strategies, several of them in the AIML space. This experience and skill set uniquely places Tom in the role of both a client-facing "doer" and a value creation services and channel "builder" for the Gaia Partnership.