CargoWise

Richard's skills combine a unique 17-year understanding of the industry with 30 years in both software development and business management. He has a deep technical understanding of Electronic Data Interchange standards (EDIFACT, ANSI, XML etc) and e-Commerce and combines this with a strong commercial grip on industry issues.

Richard actively works to assist the industry in a number of voluntary forums. He consults voluntarily to scores of industry associations and attends the many International Customs Service sponsored technical forums that are required in order to develop business and systems processes to suit the International regulatory environment.

He is keenly and actively involved in commercial and non-commercial activities that develop the capabilities of the international supply chain and the providers that work within it.

Having completed his Masters of Business in Information Technology (MBIT) at the University of Technology, he is now deeply involved in research into data management in the international supply chain and is working towards a PhD in this area. This research is adding to the body of work on supply chain management and is feeding back into products and development at CargoWise.

When not developing software, researching the supply chain or spending time with his family, he enjoys playing jazz guitar.

Melinda Elmowy

General Manager, Sales & Marketing

Melinda Elmowy is the General Manager Sales & Marketing for the CargoWise group.

Melinda began her career at Seaconlink in 1994, a forwarding software development company whilst studying marketing part-time.

In May 1999, CargoWise purchased the business of Seaconlink and Melinda was employed as the Seaconlink Product Manager. After migrating the Seaconlink customers to the CargoWise product Melinda took on the role of VP Global Marketing and in 2008 the VP Global Sales & Marketing role.

With 15 years experience promoting software to logistics service providers, Melinda globally leads the direct sales operations, brand strategy and marketing activities.

Gene Gander

VP Business Development - Americas

Gene joined CargoWise (formerly Fountainhead) in November 2001. Previously, Gene worked as national sales manager for Innovata, an airline schedule content and technology provider. Before that, he was cargo product manager for the Americas at OAG. He also has extensive freight forwarding experience in sales, operations and management. Gene is responsible for sales and business development in North America.

Mike Coney

VP Business Development - Asia

Mike began his career serving in the Navy for almost 9 years before being trained as a Diamond Buyer. Recognizing that the job market for diamond-buying ex-Naval Officers was unlikely to expand, Mike acquired an MBA and began a 20 year career in freight forwarding working in a number of management roles.

Mike joined CargoWise (then Eagle Datamation) as Regional Manager Asia stationed in Singapore. At that time CargoWise had 3 users in Singapore and 2 in Manila.

Mike has since grown this customer base to more than 270 users across 17 Asian countries. Mike now works out of Sydney (Head Office).

Debbie Boyce

VP Business Development - Australasia

Debbie began her career in the International Trade and Transport industry in 1982. She has worked in numerous forwarding capacities operationally and in a sales capacity for both Forwarding and Ships agencies.

In 1999, Debbie joined the CargoWise sales team initially serving the Brisbane market and later the Sydney market.

Debbie has become an integral member of the CargoWise sales team and has helped grow the business in Australasia. She continues to be passionate about her work, the Company, its products and the industry. Debbie continues to work out of the Brisbane office and now manages the Australia and New Zealand sales team - as well as key accounts.

Steve Corbet

VP Business Development - EMEA

Steve is based in the UK, and has been involved in the IT industry since 1974 starting work as a trainee programmer for BMW - who were involved even then in early Distribution and Supply Chain prototypes.

In 1980's Steve moved into the Software House arena, working in Project Management and Consultancy roles throughout Europe and Africa. Since 1988 he has worked within the Logistics and Distribution marketplace in Business Development roles encompassing both New Business Sales and Account Management.

Since the 1990's he has been involved in Sales and Account Management with BAX, DHL, GeoLogistics K&N, Maersk, NYK, Rennies, Schenker and Yusen Air & Sea.

Steve joined CargoWise in October 2006 to spearhead the sales and business development in EMEA, targeting our regional and global account base.

Melanie Kelsey

VP Global Implementation Projects

Melanie Kelsey is the VP Global Implementation Projects and is based in our Sydney office where she commenced employment in 2000. Melanie from the Freight Forwarding industry started her career at CargoWise in 2000 on our help desk.

After a year and a half on the help desk Melanie was offered the Help Desk Manager role and then onto various roles in Documentation, Training Scheduling and Project Management for both development and implementation.

In January 2008 Melanie moved into a global role where she now heads up our global implementation team.

Tania Wilson

VP Global Training

Tania Wilson is the VP Global Training for the CargoWise group and is based in our Sydney office.

Tania's early career was as a bookkeeper working with manual and coputerized systems, including a position at Tangent International Business Systems, an international freight & customs brokerage software development company. It was here that Tania was exposed to software development and the trade, transport and logistics industry. Tania's role at Tangent involved specifying system design for the international freight and accounting modules, demonstrating, training and providing support of the software systems that Tangent developed. During the early 1990's Tania was promoted to Office Manager and Director of Tangent.

In May 1995, when CargoWise purchased Tangent, Tania took on the role of Freight Forwarding Product Manager and Software Support Manager. Tania's career with CargoWise over the last 13 years has involved various management roles within the organization including On Line Learning materials, Implementation Project Management, and Training. Tania has assisted the company to grow our training team from 3 people in the late 90's to a team of over 20 product specialsts across 7 offices, and will continue to grow this team in line with our expansion in to new markets.

Karen Bremner

VP Global Customer Service

Karen has been involved with the freight forwarding industry for more than 20 years. Some of her time was spent working with Cooltainers a refrigerated container operator, Seaport Shipping and Brambles International Cargo. Karen began her career at CargoWise in 1997 in the Customer Support team and has since had a number of roles including Installations & Logistics and Software Training & Scheduling. In July 2007, after 12 months as the Customer Service Manager - ASPAC, Karen was appointed Customer Service Manager - Global to help manage the integration of the team into a global 24x7 customer service model.