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Geoff founded the School of Private Equity, Strategy and Entrepreneurship (SPESE) in 2007 from his strategy consulting practice which started in 1998. His aim is to help individuals and organisations create value by aligning their expertise with social needs, particularly using the online medium.
Before moving into private practice, Geoff was on the faculty of the Australian Graduate School of Management from 1998 to 2007, where he taught and wrote in strategy and entrepreneurship. He now has an honorary position of University of NSW Fellow. He was also a member of McKinsey and Company's internal strategy faculty, for training McKinsey consultants worldwide, from 2002 to 2006.
Geoff designed and taught custom executive courses and facilitated strategy development in private practice for corporate clients; previous clients include Edcon (South Africa) and Bain Capital (UK), Telecom New Zealand, National Australia Bank, Jobsupport, the Australian Venture Capital Association, Jirsch Sutherland, Deloitte, and Westpac. For an updated list, see previous clients.
Geoff was a Visiting Associate Professor to UCLA's Anderson Graduate school of Management in 2002 and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1997. Previously he was on the faculty at Emory Business School in Atlanta from 1993 to 1997 and consulted with the Boston Consulting Group's Chicago office. He has authored articles on strategy in the American Economic Review and the Strategic Management Journal, is on the editorial board of the Journal of World Business and has authored and co-authored with practitioners several cases on entrepreneurship, private equity and strategy in Australia. He was a referee for the American Economic Review (Princeton University), Review of Economics and Statistics (Harvard University), the Strategic Management Journal (Purdue University).
Geoff holds a PhD in Strategy and Economics (1993) from University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), and an Honours Degree in Financial Economics from Macquarie University (1985).
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Carrie Waring has consulted to nonprofit organisations in Australia, Hong Kong and the United States for the past 12 years. She holds an MS from the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University in Urban Studies/Nonprofit Administration. Since completing her Masters, Carrie has worked as a strategy, operations and fundraising consultant to clients like the Georgia Centre for Nonprofits, AIDSWalk Atlanta, Our House (Atlanta), Billings House (Atlanta), Vision Australia, Jobsupport Inc., and Kidsafe NSW. Through the consultancy O'Keefe and Partners, she worked with Peninsula Hospice Service, Amnesty International, Re-Engineering Australia, Ronald McDonald House Charities, The Royal Hospital Women's Foundation, Brisbane, YMCA Australia, Epilepsy Association and ChildFund Australia.
Carrie holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA and worked for several years as an environmental engineering consultant in the United States before focusing solely on nonprofit organisations. |
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Sam Burshtein is a principal with Metis Ventures, a consulting
company focused on management of innovation and technology
commercialisation. He is an international executive and lecturer, with
more than two decades of global professional and academic experience in
strategy and management of innovation, spanning Australia, Israel, US, and
Asia.
As Senior Lecturer in Innovation at Macquarie University, he helped
establish an academic program focused on management of innovation, technology
based entrepreneurship, and research commercialisation.
Having commenced his career in the software industry, he worked in IT
consulting, technology marketing, and R&D management in Australia prior to
co-founding ISEMI, the Institute for the Study of Entrepreneurship and
Management of Innovation in Israel. After completing his MBA at the
Kellogg School of Management, he worked in Boston as a strategy consulting with
The Boston
Consulting Group and later held a
position in venture capital investment management with Carmel Ventures, a global venture capital fund. Mr Burshtein also
served as an advisor to several ICT and biotechnology firms and non-profit
research institutions, and has co-founded several successful ventures.
Companies he was involved with as a founder, advisor, or investor created more
than US$400 million of capital market value.
A University Medal graduate in finance from univesity of Technology Sydney, Sam also holds an MBA in entrepreneurship & strategy from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a Masters of Applied Science in bioinformatics from the Univesity of Sydney. He is presently completing a PhD in innovation management at Swinburne University's Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship. |
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Our competitive advantage |
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What makes the School of Private Equity, Strategy and Entrepreneurship unique?
1. We take a strategy view
Most other service providers in the private equity and entrepreneurship area come from a legal or accounting background. Our background is management strategy. We aim to add integrated value to the businesses we are involved with, rather than a functional view.
2. We start with education and seek alignment of incentives
Most other providers start with a fee for advisory services, with all the in-built conflicts of interest. For example, lawyers tend to take the extreme positions to protect their client, which makes it difficult to work together with counterparties in a cooperative way. We start with education as we want to empower the decision maker. Later we seek alignment of interest by partnering with the different groups.
3. Our education is outcomes based to provide a complete service.
Most trainers teach a course and leave you to sort out the mess. Our training is built about providing a complete service to achieve your desired end outcomes. Our training is mostly learning by doing - preparing documents and plans so you are ready to act with confidence, with us ready to provide support and complementary services if necessary.
4. Our program design skills are world class
We have designed programs for leading providers such as McKinsey and Company, the Australian Graduate School of Management and the Australian Venture Capital Association.
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Australian Graduate School of Management - previous faculty member 1998-2007
www.agsm.edu.au
McKinsey and Company - global learning faculty member 2000-2004
www.mckinsey.com
Kalori Group - associate
www.kalorigroup.com
Anacacia Capital - Jeremy Samuel (guest)
Anacacia Capital
Ara Capital - John Peacocke (guest)
Ara Capital overview
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The SPESE private equity course is terrific and world class.
Michele Phillips, investor, RedFish Capital
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