The partners in the team at BPRW Marketing are: |  With over 20 years business experience, Rod Gruggen has taken sales, marketing and planning management roles across a number of industries – with names such as Fisher & Paykel and Chubb Security Products in his resumé. With a particular talent for restructuring businesses for real cost savings, Rod focuses on helping his clients to deliver better sales, customer service and stakeholder value. His recent achievements include a re-engineered information reporting system resulting in real-time cost control to the magnitude of $1m per annum, as well as creating and applying a cost saving restructure program that refocused resources to deliver a $500k profit improvement. Most recently Rod implemented an organizational restructure for his client to deliver better sales, customer service and stakeholder value, bringing in $12million additional revenue for their business. Rod Gruggen | 
With more than 20 years as a Senior Business Executive with international experience in major global Telecommunications companies, Barbar has a strong track record in revenue and profit growth, business development, relationship development and change management. He established a reputation for introducing innovation and establishing long-term relationships with customers.Some of Barbar's key achievements include doubling the profits of CITIC, a Telecommunications company based in Hong Kong, in his first year as the Director of Global Business by increasing the customer base from ten companies to 40 and introducing a range of new products. In his role at Director of Voice Business, Barbar effectively reduced costs by 40 per cent in a restructure of Reach, a joint venture between Telstra in Australia and PCCW in Hong Kong, whilst improving customer service and managing sales teams across six countries. During his time at Optus, Barbar led the international sales team to increase the profits of the International Products division and oversaw the integration of team following the merger with Singapore Telecom.
Barbar Mennah |  With over 30 years of business experience in CEO, general management and senior sales, marketing and financial roles, Peter has worked with companies such as IBM, Xerox, Ciba-Geigy, Norton, Gerni and Nilfisk-Advance. Key achievements include increasing revenue by 30 per cent in one year by introducing new marketing strategy and monitoring activity - not just results - throughout the sales and service process, introducing several 'industry first' service initiatives that increased customer satisfaction ratings by 50 per cent and developed new distribution strategies for several companies resulting in market share increases of 20 - 45 per cent within tight timeframes. Peter has been a key player in integrating new newly acquired ventures on numerous occasions, as well as preparing businesses for sale and boosting productivity by 68 per cent by introducing innovative staff training initiatives.
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Warwick is a dynamic and flexible business development specialist who has been providing business growth and strategic marketing support and advice to a range of businesses over the past 25 years. As General Manger, Marketing and Business Development for a large maritime port company Warwick was responsible for developing strategies and tactics that will lead to the doubling of customers (ships) using the major industrial port of Port Kembla. On a smaller scale, while Executive Director of the Illawarra Business Advisory Service, he has had extensive experience in advising small to medium businesses on the best methods to start-up and grow their companies. More recently he has been providing business consulting services to larger organisations, including the likes of BlueScope Steel and South Coast Equipment, on business strategies across a broad range of areas. As a business consultant, Warwick is able to use his marketing, business development and management skills and experience to deliver outstanding results for clients who are committed to growing their businesses.
Warwick Reader | 
With over 25 years in the Banking and Finance industry, Phil Davis has been instrumental in providing finance and advice to literally hundreds of companies, predominantly in the SME market, in relation to their company structures and business performance. He has an excellent understanding of the vast differences in expectations that banks and businesses have of each other.After leaving school, Phil starting out in mainstream banking and quickly developed a passion for lending. Following overseas secondments, he returned to Australia and developed an interest in the property market and soon joined key lenders in the property finance and joint venture field.He then became a director of G.B. Nathan & Co. a merchant bank which had interests in money market, lending, joint business ventures and tax based finance, along with importation of vehicle parts into Australia. Following the sale and subsequent breakup of Nathans, he returned to business banking and headed up a regional department for one of Australia’s largest banks.From companies which make electrical components to some of Australia’s top wineries, Phil has delved into their businesses and provided solutions for their commercial requirements. He has also developed several of his own businesses with diverse activities from agriculture, including developing an export market in Japan, and tourism. He has sat on the boards of several Sydney property development companies which have completed projects in Sydney’s C.B.D. and has completed his own smaller developments. Phil is a strong advocate of community involvement and is a key trainer for the NSW Rural Fire Service, consisting of 70,000 volunteers. He is qualified to control major incidents including fire, flood and many types of transport accidents. Phil’s involvement with such a wide variety of industries has provided him with a great adaptability to quickly focus on key issues facing emerging companies.
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