Marc Sheldon

At SwitchDin, we build the foundations for a smooth energy transition. We give energy companies the tools they need to securely integrate and manage diverse mixes of small-scale distributed energy resources (DERs) to optimise system-wide outcomes for everyone. We do this by working with players across the energy sector, with clients and partners that include not only utilities, but also equipment manufacturers, solar installers and energy end-users themselves.

Provide expert consulting and implementation services in renewable energy market from negotiations with government for large-scale projects to implementation of projects, leveraging network of industry and government contacts in renewable energy generation and storage (electrical and thermal).

After selling and negotiating sonnen group’s largest government contract, I designed, developed and implemented a Greenfield manufacturing facility to satisfy Australian & Asia Pacific demand. This included recruitment of the management team and administrative staff for the company as well as development and implementation of a warehouse and logistics system. To enable the rapid startup, I also recruited, built and facilitated training a sales and support call centre and associated online ordering system.

Provided innovative, differentiated marketing and strategy services to technology sector, with non-invasive marketing strategies to build customer relationships, trust and product acceptance. Projects include: - Long-term relationship marketing campaign to drive sales for Scality, Inc. - Large-scale events with up to 5,200 guests for Scality, Inc., Cisco Systems, Intel, Red Hat, M3AAWG, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenStack, IBM, Canonical etc. - On-site and off-site exhibition management for HPE

Scality, a world leader in object and cloud storage, builds storage tools to make data easy to protect, search and manage anytime, on any cloud. Supported the CEO and senior management team in devising and executing their business and go-to-market strategy.

Market-leading supplier of high-capacity email servers to service provider market, managing email traffic for more than 400 million users. Responsible for global marketing activities & business development in Asia Pacific markets. Developed product marketing & sales strategy built on client service, trust and dependability, closed first major account with over 250,000 subscribers, follow-on significant worldwide sales to global operators. Bizanga successfully sold to Cloudmark (now part of Google) in 2010.

Lectured, tutored and mentored EMBA students in Entrepreneurship.

LINE was a Hutchinson Whampoa subsidiary based in Hong Kong, providing supply chain management, freight visibility, and document management services to Hutchison Port Holdings’ customers and their customers. Led LINE's operational activities worldwide with full P&L responsibility including integrating and running newly acquired document management operations, business development, and change management.

UUNET Asia Pacific was one of three regional business units of UUNET, largest Internet Network Provider with more than 50% of global Internet traffic, operations in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Japan and additional customers in other regional locations. Ran Asia Pacific activities of UUNET with full P&L responsibility. Grew regional operations to profit with 650 staff and annual revenues from zero to over US$300 million.

Co-founded EUnet which grew to the largest business Internet service provider in Germany with 70 staff and more than US$14 million annual revenue. Focused on Sales and Marketing activities, sold and closed outsourcing contract with Microsoft Network for German market. Successfully sold EUnet to UUNET in 1996.