Topic: Leadership – Acquisition and Innovation!
Speaker: Anders Egehus, CEO of Svitzer Australasia
When: Monday July 26 from 12:45-14:00
Location: Boral
Format: Lunch Presentation and Q&A

Anders Egehus, current CEO of Svitzer Australasia, will join us to talk about leadership around two central topics:

1) His leadership experience when he led an organisation through a large acquisition during 2007.
2) His experience on how keep innovation alive in a large corporate environment.

A bit about the speaker and the company:
Anders has over the last 3 years been running Svitzer Australasia – a tugboat company with revenues in excess of 200 million A$ and more than 1,000 employees. Svitzer operates more than 140 vessels and is the largest maritime employer in Australia. Svitzer acquired Adsteam in 2007 which was a top 50 company listed on the Australian stock exchange.
He has vast global experience having worked in a variety of settings – from Africa, India, Denmark, Australia and Korea. Anders has an executive MBA from Chicago Booth so those interested in hearing more about the school, join the talk. Anders has just been promoted and will be moving back to Denmark as the new global COO of Svitzer.
Svitzer globally earns more than 1 billion US dollars in revenue. Svitzer is part of AP Moller – Maersk group with annual revenues in excess of 60 billion US dollars.

Topic: Entry, Growth, and Exit: Entrepreneurial Success in Australia’s Healthcare Sector
When: Monday July 12 from 13:00-13:55
Location: Boral
Format: Informal Lunch Presentation and Q&A

Next Monday at lunch, Simon Moore, an alumnus of ours currently enrolled in the Exec program, will be enlightening us with the trials and tribulations of launching and growing Vivir, a health care services group.  Simon recently exited the company successfully, so his presentation will run the gamut of an entrepreneur’s experiences from start through finish.  Join us in Boral for a short presentation followed by Q&A.

Proof-of-concept centers are giving universities the money and other support to take unproven ideas and make them appeal to venture capitalists.

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Here is a glimpse of fabulous ideas that we’ve collected on Business Idea Generation Night; it was a massive hit! thanks to all who participated and shared their creativity. Rob and Anders are working on these and planning the next steps to convert some of these dreams to reality!! watch this space for updates…..

Restaurant

• Hooters restaurants in Australia; Uters
• chicken wing restaurants
• themed pub/sports bar
• drip coffee stands
• Japanese deli franchise restaurant
• CBD vending machines that dispense high quality dinners to professionals working late
• female Hooters that sells desserts; male waiters
• bar in the CBD
• lounge/cafe/restaurant around UNSW that caters to late night study, hangout; karaoke rooms, TV rooms, arcade, no booze
• delivery service that picks up food from all restaurants; like Sherpas in Shanghai

Intimacy

• device that permits couples separated by long-distance to maintain an intimate relationship; two component device that is connected through the Internet
• software that accompanies the above device
• lingerie stores in Sweden
• topless cleaners

Other

• e-rent: bid online for rental property; 360 degree view
• something around customer service
• pay at the pump petrol stations
• military base stores; all the comforts of home
• frothed milk machine that creates instant frothed milk for coffee
• software/hardware at stores that sends customers e-receipt to mobile device or email; bluetooth technology perhaps
• AGSM-based market research company that compiles mkt demographic reports
• automatic live help on the Internet at the online payment process; someone’s friend has made this software
• rent out (or sell??) lightweight, durable, watertight, boxes for shipping/moving goods
• “Wicked”-style vans for US mkt
• holistic life company that provides life planning for working professionals, B2B biz
• corporate sports league (dodgeball, volleyball, kickball, etc.)
• boarding school for gifted athletes
• coupon book
• hostel somewhere in Australia
• Australian ketchup squeeze packets to North America
• Japanese hyperelectric (?? sorry took bad notes on this one) toilet seats

This year, PitchFest will be run as a double feature with the iChallenge. iChallenge is a new event by the ASB that is a business pitch competition for high-school students. PitchFest is a business pitch competition, open to any UNSW student. It is also the launch event for the Peter Farrell Cup Challenge, UNSW’s signature business plan competition. Details to be announced soon