OFFIS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Executive Chairman
- Founder
Craig founded Offis Pty Ltd in 1997 with a vision to build a secure Enterprise-Grade Infrastructure and Operational Services for Australian companies. His background includes working for IBM Australia, USA and Asia in a variety of technical, product management and marketing roles culminating on working on the Atlanta, Nagano and Sydney Olympics. Prior to IBM he worked in the EDP Department of Wardley Australia (now HSBC Bank Australia) and leading IT publishing firm, IDG Communications.
Craig holds a BSc (Computer Science) and has completed Business Administration studies run by the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia and Innovative Technology Leadership courses at Stanford University. Watch Craig's interview on YouTube
Job Titles:
- Non - Executive Director - M & a
Craig co-founded Allen Partners in 2009 and has over 20 years' experience in capital advisory, private equity investing and investment banking in Australia, New Zealand and North America. Prior to Allen Partners, Craig was a Senior Principal with Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity, the private equity investing arm of Merrill Lynch & Co., with equity investments globally of more than US$5 billion. In this capacity, Craig was responsible for the origination and execution of late stage buy-out transactions and was a board director of portfolio company Veda Advantage, the credit bureau of Australia and New Zealand, which was acquired in 2007 for A$1 billion. Craig was a member of the MLGPE global investment committee and Asia-Pacific sub-committee.
Job Titles:
- Solution Architect at Offis Multi
Greg Steel is a Solution Architect at Offis Multi-Cloud Services with over 20 years experience working on major projects within Australian Financial and Insurance organisations such as IAG, NAB and Westpac. Greg presents at one of Offis' regular industry events (ISV Speakeasy) on Environment Automation and (CI/CD) Continuous Deliver/DevOps. Provisioning environments to support Continuous Delivery. Doing this well is at the heart of DevOps. Full automation of environment provisioning makes this possible, allowing Offis to treat infrastructure the same way as software.
Sean brings 25 years of experience in the project focused industries of Construction, Engineering and IT. He is well practiced and with unique skills to survey, identify and execute strategy he is able to manage complex projects and mitigate risk. Forging enduring alliances at multiple levels from C-Suite to operations is supported by experience with a range of commercial structures. Negotiating and implementing partnering contracts combines with his ability to lead successfully across divergent business models. International experience in APAC - HK and Singapore provides a regional framework for action.