CV for Chris Lipscombe
Profile
- Experienced business manager, with IT, business development, marketing, graphic design and publishing skills
- Strong focus on identifying, designing and delivering projects with tangible business outcomes
- Experienced in international business-to-business marketing and management
- Confident and persuasive public speaker and communicator
Capabilities
- Strategic planning and business leadership
- Team-building, motivation and management
- Project management (resources, budget, timeframe, stakeholders, outcomes)
- Marketing services management (PR, advertising, direct marketing, promotions)
- Graphic design and production (traditional and electronic)
Achievements
- Developed a nationwide publishing and communications program for New Zealand aid and development agency Corso, with high visibility and success
- Set up own graphic design business, providing writing, editing, design and print broking services to businesses, government departments and non-profit organisations
- Provided art direction and production management for books published by New Zealand Government Printing Office as part of new publishing venture Government Publishing
- Designed and implemented a European publishing database for Digital Equipment Company (UK), dramatically reducing time to market for local versions of hardware and software products
- Prepared and advised on worldwide implementation of electronic publishing standards for Digital Equipment Corporation (US), successfully reducing production and inventory costs
- Built a customer database and initiated direct marketing programs for PC, UNIX, and networking businesses within Digital Equipment Corporation (NZ)
- Set up own marketing consultancy, providing strategic marketing, database marketing and data analysis services to NZ businesses
- Managed book design and illustration for Reed Publishing (NZ) Limited, including development of new electronic publishing initiatives
- Identified new business opportunities for multimedia company DVP and provided web solutions to corporate customers in NZ, in association with Telecom New Zealand
- Built a successful web development business for Wang New Zealand Limited and went on to integrate and manage an acquisition as Wang's Knowledge Management Division
- Provided marketing communications services to business, corporate and government clients as part-owner and director of Mission Hall Design Group Limited
- Set up Ensignz International to deliver strategic marketing consultancy services in Singapore and Dubai.
- Successfully negotiated $2 million contribution from central government to the construction of a sound stage in the Wellington region as part of a NZ Trade & Enterprise Major Regional Initiative.
- Established a successful funding programme for music videos, building on Wellington’s reputation for film production to increase local video production and deliver marketing benefits to local musicians and artists.
- Established an Asia Industry Partnerships programme, introducing companies from the Wellington region to partners in China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore.
- Devised, funded and launched NZ’s first animation and visual effects symposium, AnimfxNZ.
- Created regional and national economic development teams to accelerate fast, affordable broadband access and business use throughout New Zealand.
- Successfully negotiated cornerstone funding from a Tokyo-based investor for Wellington games developer Instinct Entertainment
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Arts (History), University of Canterbury, 1976
- Post-graduate Diploma in Business (Marketing), Auckland University School of Business, 1994
- Master of International Relations (Distinction), Victoria University of Wellington, 2008
But wait, there's more . . .
Seriously, if you want more information, or you have any questions, drop me a line at chris@redeye.co.nz.