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Advisory Board

Simon Anderson


Simon Anderson is the Managing Director of Ocean Avenue Ventures (OAV), a private investment and consulting firm with a focus on next generation software, internet and new media companies.

Prior to founding OAV, Simon was VP Strategy & Business Development at Affinity Internet, Inc.(www.affinity.com) - a leading US-based web hosting and application services company with over 200,000 customers - funded by George Schmitt, JP Morgan Capital, Columbia Capital and Wachovia Capital. Affinity was successfully sold to Hostway Corporation (www.hostway.com) in April 2007.

Prior to Affinity Simon was a general partner of Allen & Buckeridge (www.a-b.com.au), a leading Australian venture capital firm specialising in early stage, high growth technology companies.

Having originally worked with the founders of the company during their initial moves into North America (www.anzatech.com) Simon has been formally appointed to the Advisory Board to assist Synetek in executing its growth strategies for the United States and Canadian markets.

Jim Paulyshyn


Jim is a Chartered Accountant who completed an MBA in Entrepreneurial Studies at Toronto's York University before migrating to Australia. As a Director with Coopers & Lybrand he provided a range of consulting and advisory services to early stage companies including business planning, joint venture structuring, and due diligence investigations.

Jim has a wide breadth of international experience in early stage technology commercialization projects. He was the founding CFO with Internet pioneer Sausage Software and he project managed its 1996 IPO. Jim spent a significant part of the next two years establishing international operations in the US, negotiating alliances with leading technology companies, and steering the groups to cash positive operations.

Jim has been involved with a number of technology focused projects ranging from capital raising, trade sales, and technology licensing agreements. His clients have included a number of Australian publicly listed technology groups, private investors, technology incubators, as well as a wide range of early stage private companies. Jim's experience spans the life cycle from raising initial capital to liquidity events including trade sale and IPO. Jim has represented a number of buyers in engineering "liquidity events" and he also has significant sell-side experience.

KJW Consultants have been engaged by the boards of numerous ASX listed entities for strategy matters and for corporate advisory support and also are currently incubating a wide range of early stage/start-up technology sector investments, via AusIndustry's Commercialising Emerging Technologies program.

Jim's appointment to the Synetek Advisory Board will continue the strong working relationship established by the founders and be a key component in achieving the company's overall corporate strategy in both domestic and global markets.

Adam Boyd


Currently the Chief Executive Officer of a publicly listed (ASX) renewable energy company that operates in the International marketplace Adam has operated in various professional capacities over a corporate career of more than fifteen years for a number private and public companies.

As a Chartered Accountant, and prior to his current role, Adam held the role of Chief Financial Officer & Company Secretary for a listed global energy and technology company, in addition to being a senior executive in various infrastructure and finance organisations.

Having been a member of the Synetek Advisory Board since the company was founded Adam has been, and continues to be, invaluable in assisting the management team and Board of Directors with corporate and financial strategy and structuring.

Rodney Moynihan


With more than a decade of experience in senior business development roles in the Australasian IT industry, Rod has assisted management and the board in developing the company's communications and sales strategy for securing SMB market share.

Throughout his career Rod has developed a great ability to understand the requirements of target verticals, the needs and wants of the SMB sector within those verticals and delivering solution-based outcomes. Key verticals Rod is established within include Retail, Financial Services, Mining, Government and Non-Government Organisations.

Having delivered for both Australian private companies and some of the world's largest software vendors, Rod's input and knowledge is invaluable to the company in executing its business development strategies.