23 May 2007
Wellnomics ramps up management to take on the world
Media release - 8 May 2007, Wellnomics Ltd, Christchurch, New Zealand: Christchurch based ergonomic software developer Wellnomics® Ltd has announced the appointment of key members of its management team to support the company's expansion into new markets for the Wellnomics Risk Management suite of software.
The company will be headed by Sue Brown as the new general manager. Brown has spent the last 16 years at fertiliser company Ravensdown, most recently establishing the Customer Centre from an initial pilot to a team of 40 servicing more than 40,000 customers. She holds an MBA from Massey University.
International sales director Alan Vickers has relocated to Amsterdam to commence his new position opening the new Wellnomics Netherlands office. Vickers has extensive experience in the European market from his former position at Whisper Tech where he was responsible for sales and distribution of the WhisperGen into Western Europe. Prior to that, Alan was General Manager of another Orion owned company, TransFlux Ltd, which manufactured and exported a patented heating system used in the food industry and for commercial building heating.
Wellnomics' new marketing director, UK born Ali Wilkinson arrived in New Zealand in 2002 from Singapore where she was AXA's Insurance Health Development Manager covering the Asia-Pacific Region. Prior to joining Wellnomics she worked at Southern Cross as general manager products and was responsible for the launch of the Wellbeing Plan, product management and new product development.
The fourth and most recent addition to the management team is Trevor Foster, general manager of Adilam Electronics' New Zealand branch for 10 years and prior to that, sales manager with multinational semiconductor distributor Avnet. Trevor joins Wellnomics as international sales director based in Christchurch but focusing on new vertical markets in North America, targeting some of the world's largest employers. Born in Zimbabwe, Foster launched and ran a successful African trading business from a base in South Africa, before moving to New Zealand in 1994.
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About Wellnomics
Founded in 1997 by directors Dr Kevin Taylor and Dr Rob van Nobelen, Wellnomics® is a leader in the health and safety field, with many thousands of clients across North America, Australasia and Europe and over 1 million software product licenses in use worldwide. Clients include Global 1000 organisations such as Philips, Boeing, Chevron, Shell, BP, ING Bank, KPMG, PWC, Pacific Gas and Electric, Cap Gemini, Nike, and Eli Lilly.
Wellnomics provides an integrated suite of software tools to enable organisations to effectively manage the health and safety of large numbers of office workers. Wellnomics products are designed to prevent injuries, improve productivity, and minimise lost work time, and are underpinned by extensive international research.
At any one time Wellnomics is involved with numerous scientific studies on computer use in the office environment around the world. These activities allow Wellnomics to make a measurable improvement to health and safety outcomes and provide clients with tangible returns on investment. For more information visit www.wellnomics.com.
In 2006, Wellnomics was a successful applicant in the market development category for up to $100,000 of funding from NZTE for each of the next five years. The company is nearly at the end of the first year of funding.
Wellnomics is also one of only a few New Zealand companies this year to have the opportunity to work with a team of four MBA students from the UCLA Anderson School of Management's Global Access Program. The program matches a team of skilled students with an international technology company to develop a comprehensive business strategy that will enable the company to move to the next stage of their corporate development. The project includes development of a business plan, primary and secondary research.
The programme takes on a maximum of 10 New Zealand companies each year and Wellnomics will be using part of the NZTE market development grant to fund 50% of the project's costs.
The Wellnomics project will focus on distribution channels and strategy in the US market and will be driven by Ali Wilkinson and Kevin Taylor at the Wellnomics end.
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