AIRA - Key Persons


Dion McConnell

Job Titles:
  • General Manager, Residential Sales

Francis Elmendorp

Job Titles:
  • General Manager, Logistics, Planning & Supply

Howard Coombs

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director Finance & Strategy

Jon Seeley

Job Titles:
  • Group Managing Director

Jonathan Bands

Job Titles:
  • General Manager, People & Culture

Kathy Seeley

Job Titles:
  • Director

Kevin Scarce

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Chairman

Marc Makrid

Job Titles:
  • Director

Michael Hamilton

Job Titles:
  • General Manager, Commercial Sales

Mr Frank Seeley - Chairman, Founder

Job Titles:
  • Executive Chairman
  • Founder
Seeley International employs around 500 staff, with the majority employed at its Lonsdale manufacturing hub with many of those employees living south of the city. The Lonsdale site remains the nerve centre of Seeley International's innovation efforts, with close to 50 staff working in its engineering team, offering diverse experience that spans mechanical and aeronautical engineering, as well as electronics engineers, product design specialists and people with design skills. As part of its SA operations, the specialist ‘Imagineering' team - personally headed up by Mr Seeley - is also SA-based and is dedicated to bringing over the horizon products to the market today. The company tests its products at its purpose-built, state-of-the-art $1M NATA-accredited testing facility at Lonsdale. Seeley International's vertical integration has enabled it to develop high level skills in tool manufacturing and maintenance, metal fabrication, die casting, plastic injection moulding, paper handling, vacuum forming, rotational moulding, electric motor manufacturing, product assembly and electronics. From a geographical perspective, Seeley International's South Australian presence provides a central location within Australia, which offers good international airport links and freight routes to send completed products across the country and further afield. South Australia has the right set of economic conditions and support to keep growing business over the course of time, and Seeley International is proud to have a long-standing relationship with South Australia as an active supporter of many worthy causes in the local community. Founder and Executive Chairman, Mr Frank Seeley AM, DUniv Flin, FAICD, is highly-regarded as a leading SA manufacturer and was named South Australian Entrepreneur of the Year in 2005, state winner of the Jason Lea Award at the South Australian Family Business of the Year Awards in 2010 and Advantage SA South Australian of the Year Award for 2011

Paul Schwarz

Job Titles:
  • General Manager, Engineering

Rob Gilbert

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director, Imagineering

Ryan Klose

Job Titles:
  • Non - Executive ) Director

Samuele Peli

Job Titles:
  • General Manager, Sales - Europe, Middle East & Africa