Ian Wilson

Managing Director

Sydney

Ian Wilson has a wide range of managerial and board experience in different sectors. He has developed a reputation in strategic planning, marketing and organisation development and it is these skills which he brings to assignments in the professional search market to the significant benefit of his clients. These clients include major national and international organisations and his assignments have included searches at the Managing Director, General Manager and Department Head levels. He has a strong interest in structure, management and governance and frequently advises clients in these areas as part of his search assignments.

Over a recent ten-year period he has been Chief Executive of large organisations, and has a strong operational management and strategic planning background in public and private companies and professional service firms in Australia and New Zealand.

With degrees in engineering and management his career has spanned the industrial sector, public service and the professions in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. He has held managing director, chief executive or general manager positions in all of these sectors and has managed companies as small as $1 million turnover venture capital funded operations to $100 million organisations.

His early career was in engineering and technical management roles in aero engine development with Rolls-Royce. He then switched career paths into telecommunications with Telstra and headquarters distribution and network planning roles with Australia Post. For five years he was Head of Strategic Planning for Price Waterhouse, moving it onto a more focused business platform across 43 offices in the Asia-Pacific region.

In the graphic technologies sector as General Manager of the Graphic Technologies Division of Edwards Dunlop, he restructured the five companies comprising the operations in Australia and New Zealand onto a streamlined, more profitable basis enabling onward sale of the division. He was then appointed as Managing Director of a venture capital funded, start-up chemical company in the printing industry to spearhead the commercialisation phase of manufacturing and global marketing of its Australian developed and patented technology.

Ian is Chairman of the Carson Group, a Trans-Tasman specialist project management company and was recently an independent Director of a trans-Tasman patent attorney firm.