Angela is Ithaca’s Company Secretary and a
Principal Consultant with the business.
A Chartered Accountant, Angela has over 20 years
experience at Board Level operating in international, multi cultural
environments, within both a UK plc and US multinational.
During 2002 she was appointed a Non-Executive
Director of The Student Loans Company, and was recently reappointed for a
further three year term.
Angela's know-how has been gathered across a broad
range of sectors, International Distribution, Retail, Manufacturing, Branded
Goods, Public Sector, Recruitment, Event Management, where she has consistently
delivered outstanding results.
Angela mainly works with Boards of Directors on
strategic vision, planning and implementation, where she is the catalyst for
significant change. She has a holistic approach, working with teams to create
dynamic strategic plans which have buy-in from the whole team. She is
passionate about delivering significant bottom line results through the
implementation process where she brings a history of success.
A clear and strategic thinker, Angela ensures that
solutions are innovative and commercially appropriate to the organisation.
Angela is also an inspirational Executive Coach/Mentor; particularly in
resolving conflict in Board Rooms and Senior Management Teams.
As an individual, she is forward thinking,
proactive, results driven, and is passionate about delivering results through
the development of people.
Gen
established her first business, a niche recruiting service, after resigning her
commission with the Australian Army in 1988 following almost six years of
service. She ran this for two years selling and moving into the corporate
sector, filling a series of troubleshooting and change management roles with
Melbourne Pathology, Mayne and Bonlac. In these organisations Gen consistently
and successfully took leadership roles to design and deliver effective process
optimisation solutions.
Gen began Ithaca in early 2001, working from the start with a range of blue
chip, corporate and government clients such as Carter Holt Harvey, CSL
Pharmaceuticals, various NHS Trusts, Skanem A/S and TNT to name a few. The
business focused on designing and implementing projects delivering very
significant productivity, working capital and strategic improvements through
the application of a holistic, process-oriented but lean-thinking
approach.
In
recent years Gen has been invited to speak at a range of events—including
Supply Chain World, Pharmatech (both Sydney), Hospitalog Asia (Bangkok &
Singapore), AHRMM’s Annual Conference (Anaheim), EHMA (Barcelona) and the GS1
Healthcare User Group meeting (Princeton).
In
addition to these engagements Gen lectures post-graduates at RMIT University
and has just concluded writing a post-graduate course on holistic supply chain
strategy and operations.
Gen's
interests outside of work include travel, photography and rambling.
Elisa is a Director of Ithaca and heads up Ithaca's
Australian operations.
Elisa has almost 20 years management experience in
senior operational roles across the two core disciplines of human resource
/industrial relations and supply chain/logistics management.
Elisa's know-how has been gathered across a range
of sectors from Logistics, Retail (FMCG), Telecommunications and Banking to
Health and Pharmaceutical where she took a leading role in Ithaca's first major
project at Bayside Health, delivering a dramatic bottom line and productivity
improvement through process reengineering and introducing a new approach to
working capital management.
One area in which Elisa has a particularly
outstanding record of success is leading all aspects of human resource
management industrial relations in organisations undergoing significant
strategic growth or change environments, including start-up, mergers,
acquisitions and divestments.
Some of her projects in this context have included
core supply chain reform and the consolidation and re-location of
pharmaceutical logistics to dealing with the establishment of a human resources
shared service structure for Mayne during their major merge/divestment program
and developing /delivering training programs to accommodate everyone from
shop-floor to management staff in Toys R Us Australian start-up.
