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Matthew Wilson Managing Director and Co-Founder
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Matthew Wilson, Managing Director, co-founded M5 Networks Australia in 2004. In his current role, Matthew looks after group strategy, product management, and manages 35 staff in Melbourne and Canberra.
Matthew visited M5 in the United States in 2000 to see how the company implemented VoIP technology for SMEs. Convinced that the market was underserviced in Australia, and encouraged by the widespread dissatisfaction with service levels of fixed line providers, Matthew and his soon to be business partners brought M5’s technology to Australian businesses as a viable alternative to traditional phone lines. M5 Networks Australia today provides hosted IP phone systems to small and medium businesses across Australia.
Prior to founding M5 Networks Australia, Matthew was Business Development Manager at SecureNet Limited, where he handled mergers and acquisitions for the company. Matthew also held the position of Business Analyst at Foster's Brewing Group Limited, having started there as a Secretarial Assistant.
Matthew has a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne and is currently pursuing a Masters in Business Administration.
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John Hendry General Manager of Operations, Australia |
John Hendry has over 25 years of IT experience in both the private and public sectors. Before founding M5 Networks Australia, John worked with private companies Asia Online, Netinfo Internet Service Provider, IP Australia, and Canberra College of Advance Education, where he delivered solutions to large government and financial institutions.
In his role as Senior Manager at SecureNet, John’s responsibilities included working with large government and financial institutions to bring them online in a secure manner.
John has also worked with Australian Government departments including the Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business and the Department of Employment, Education and Training, where he aided with programming, implemented data warehousing environments and held contract analyst roles.
In 1999 John co-founded iSecure, where he implemented firewall systems and intrusion fault monitoring services to large commercial and government organisations. John also co-founded the Interact Internet Service Pty Ltd in 1995.
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Richard Ruth National Sales & Marketing Manager |
Richard Ruth is the National Sales and Marketing Manager of M5 Networks Australia. In his current role his key responsibilities are the setting and achieving sales targets and also setting and executing marketing strategy. Richard also manages team that assist in the execution of the marketing strategy.
Prior to Richard’s role with M5, Richard ran his own business coaching company that worked with a number of businesses around the country in many different industries. Richard has been responsible for working with a number of key name-brand businesses to help them realize their full potential and achieve dominance in the market place.
In addition to Richard’s business, he has been heavily involved in the arena of selling, as a trainer, salesperson and sales manager.
Richard has a number of sales and sales training qualifications and also a Diploma of Marketing from Holmes College.
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Daron Letch Project Manager |
Daron Letch is Project and Provisioning Manager at M5 Networks Australia. In this role, Daron liaises with M5’s customers on integrating M5’s hosted VoIP phone system with their business needs. Daron has been with M5 since 2007.
As customers’ needs change, Daron works closely with them to ensure that the system is always meeting their needs and keeping up with growth. Daron acts as the interface between customers and M5’s technical support team and also manages M5’s vendor partner relationships with Optus, Telstra, Internode, and other key suppliers.
Prior to joining M5, Daron held the position of Vendor Compliance Executive at Visa International, where he was responsible for the management of the Visa international standards program. He also headed the security advisory department for staff travel. Before he joined Visa, Daron was the System Administrator and Vendor Relationship Manager at National Australia Bank where he managed the credit card processing system as well as third party relationships.
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