Profiles

David Mayman

Partner: Business Development, Alliances, Investments and Acquisitions

David is responsible for the overall development and execution of the LSS business strategy. He has also played the pivotal role in investments, venture acceleration and harvesting for successful companies including Marketboomer, FulfilNET and Australian Local Search. David is based in Europe and is experienced with the European capital markets.

David's background has been in management consulting and business management at senior levels in a variety of industries.

Paul Harvell

Partner: Commercialisation

Paul's role at LSS is to assist our investee companies to commercialise their technologies in an accelerated manner.

Paul is a board member of Marketboomer and FulfilNET and has been responsible for developing and implementing their sales, marketing and commercialisation strategies. Paul has grown a major international advertising agency servicing blue chip organisations.

Andrew Wilkinson

Partner: Product Commercialisation & Strategy

Andrew is responsible for product strategy, development and management and plays a key role in developing new opportunities with alliance partner relationships. Andrew is widely considered an expert in the search and new media sectors.

Andrew was co-founder of Australian Local Search and, in the past, ran Yellow Pages OnLine and the new product development division for Sensis, Australia's incumbent Yellow Pages business.

Murray Longe

Partner: Commercial Development

Murray is responsible for commercial development and contractual negotiations with current and existing partners and affiliates. He has extensive strategic commercial and business development experience within the online and other technology-intensive industries.

Richard Burgmann

Partner: Technology Development

Richard's role is to work with the other partners to determine the technological requirements and risks for our investee companies. He manages LSS's internal group of developers (responsible for much of the ALS technology licenced by News Limited) who work on investee and LSS direct technology development and proof on concept. His hands-on approach is based on a record of solid technical and leadership expertise gained through twenty years of IT experience.

Richard's strengths include an extensive understanding of contemporary IT issues and technology combined with a familiarity of the key business drivers of Finance, Marketing, Risk Management, Audit and Strategy.