The people behind Standard Lifeboat
With a broad business background spanning the most rapidly-changing half century the world has known, your facilitators
Peter Blaxland,
Frank McMahon and
David Livingstone combine a wealth of knowledge of most aspects of modern commercial activities.
Peter Gregory Blaxland
Background
With 50 years experience in trade consulting, specialising in customs tariff, valuation and preference advice, Peter is the éminence grisof Standard Lifeboat. Quite an achievement, given all the facilitators being quite "gris". His training and certification by the global leader in quality assessement, the Geneva-based SGS(the Société Générale de Surveillance), providing certainty of quality outcomes.
Peter has been involved at management level in Customs, Airfreight, Container Transport, Warehousing and Distribution in his various rôles as a Divisional Manager, Warehousing and Distribution of TNT-Rudders Ltd, Managing Director of Interport Storage Australia Pty Ltd, Director, Interport Sydney Pty Ltd and Interport Jetair Pty Ltd, and was the first business mentor to David Livingstone on his appointment as General Manager of Interport Jetair in 1972 - and ever since.
Principal Qualifications
- Licensed Customs Broker
- Third-party Quality Assurance Assessor (SGS trained)
Other Qualifications & Achievements
- Fellow of the Customs Agents' Institute of Australia
- Fellow & Life Member of the Customs Brokers and Forwarders Council of Australia
- Federal Vice-President, Federal Treasurer and NSW President of
the Customs Agents' Institute of Australia(ret.) - Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management
Frank McMahon
Background
Frank has extensive business and technical experience in operational and senior management positions, and in consulting, in Australia and the UK:
- Associate in executive recruitment across a range of industries;
- Group Technology Manager and a member of the executive management group John Fairfax Holdings; also held management positions in corporate planning, group restructuring and capital investment, and production development. Director of several operating subsidiaries and industry bodies;
- Senior management consultant with Touche Ross & Co, in the UK, North Africa, and Australia;
- Manager software development and various software development roles.
Frank's association with David Livingstone began with working closely, as customer and vendor, on an aggressive program of technological innovation in newspaper editorial, advertising and pagination within the John Fairfax Group, leading to a friendship and the professional collaboration today.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Arts - University of Sydney (Sydney, AU)
- Dip. Accounting and Finance - Association of Certified Accountants (London, UK)
David Stanley Livingstone
Background
With more than 50 years in management, 35 years of that in information technology, David was the inaugural President of the Australian Computer Industry Association, has an undergraduate degree in Business Administration with a major in Information Technology, and is a Masters candidate in Business Management.
David is co-founder of
The officeFocus™ Condominium, the members of which provide specialist technical support, Web 2.0 development, graphic arts and management services to not-for-profit and commercial organisations.
Qualifications
- Graduate Certificate in Business Process Design & Implementation - University of Sydney (Sydney, AU)
- Information Management Diploma - University of Sydney (Sydney, AU)
- Bachelor of Business Administration in Information Technology - Forbes College (Princeton, NJ)
- Master Mariner (Uniform Shipping Laws Code - Class 3 Trading, Ret.)
With more than 50 years in management, 35 years of that in information technology, David was the inaugural President of the Australian Computer Industry Association, has an undergraduate degree in Business with a major in Information Technology, and is a Masters candidate in Business Management.
Other Qualifications & Achievements
- Author: Sleuth™ Global Container Shipping & Transport Management Systems (Pick/Information)
- Author: InTouch!™ CRM/Sales Management Software (MS VB/Access/Windows)
- President: Shipmasters Guild (IFSMA)
- Secretary: Vaucluse Yacht Club
- Secretary: OPEN Inc.
- Consultant/Lecturer:
- Australian Chamber of Manufactures
- Melbourne Chamber of Commerce
- Small Business Association of Victoria
- Customs Agents Institute of Australia