Over the past 22 years, Joe has provided leadership to some of the world’s most successful cloud service, SaaS, ISP and web development companies - each one originally a start up.
In 2011 he SecondX - Interactive Cloud TV.
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As Co-founder, CEO and President of uCIRRUS Corporation (2007 - 2011), based in San Mateo Calif., Joe built a successful US corporation with world-class investors (Intel Capital, South Korean Telecoms, ATA Ventures, customers (MySpace, Microsoft, Fox News) and Management (Peter Richards - CEO, Dr. Ray Huetter - CTO & Paul May CFO). The company can be founds at ucirrus.com
As Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO of Workstar (2003 - 2007), Joe led Workstar to becoming the leading provider of HR SaaS Solutions in Asia-Pacific with flag ship clients including McDonald’s Australia, New Zealand & Singapore. During his time at Workstar, Joe grew revenues from $300K in FY 2004 to $19M in 2007. During this time, Workstar was the fastest growing company in Australia. The company can be found at workstar.com.au
In 1997 he was co-founder and Managing Director of Marketboomer first and largest online SaaS procurement exchange in Australia and now the most successful online SaaS hospitality exchange internationally. Marketboomer now operates in China, Ireland, Indonesia and Australia. The company can be found at marketboomer.com
In 1994, he was the co-founder & CEO of Axis Media and Australia’s first Australian web development company. Axis Media was also the first web site developer in Australia to win a TOP-100 Web Site award from PC Magazine USA for the Sydney Futures Exchange web site. This company has since been acquired.
In 1992, he was Ozemail’s second employee. Responsible for a wide range of tasks including product development, systems engineering, network engineering, network infrastructure planning, customer support and investor presentations. Ozemail was Australia’s first ISP. The company has since been acquired.
In 1990, Joe was a network engineer with Australian Consolidated Press (ACP), the largest computer-based publishing network in Southern Hemisphere. This company can be found at acp.com.au
