Our board of directors
The Ecos Corporation Board comprises the following
people:
Sam Weiss
Sam Weiss has worked at Board level in Australia,
Asia, Europe, and the United States and is highly
regarded as a Company Chairman, Non-Executive Director
and Corporate Advisor who can create shareholder value
through superior strategy, capital and financial controls,
premium brand building, people management and strong
corporate governance.
Sam is Chairman of OrotonGroup Limited, the leading
Australian fashion brand retailer, and of Ecos Corporation,
a Sydney based consultancy firm that helps large
multi-national corporations create value through
sustainability. He is Deputy Chairman of GLG Corp
Limited, a leading supplier of casual quality knitwear
to very large US retailers, such as Wal-Mart and
an independent Director of Canterbury of New Zealand
Limited, the New Zealand based rugby apparel firm,
and Open Universities Australia, Australia’s
national broker of open and distance education in
the university sector.
In recent years Sam has been a corporate advisor
to the Marsim Group, a leading premium property
developer in NSW and Queensland and to Vsource,
the pan-Asian business outsourcing services provider
based in Malaysia.
Over the course of his career at large multi-national
corporations such as NIKE, where he was the COO
of Nike Europe, and Gateway Computers where he was
VP, Asia and Sheridan, Sam has developed strong
leadership skills and has a consistently proven
ability to generate significant revenue and margin
increases.
Recognised for his communication and presentation
abilities, Sam is highly regarded as a mentor who
can help Boards, management teams and individuals
grow and develop their personal and professional
skills.
He is an experienced, hands-on, turn-around manager
with excellent strategic planning, consumer brand
marketing, team building, technology, marketing,
and supply chain management skills. Sam has a specialist’s
understanding of the Internet and E-Commerce environments.
Sam did his undergraduate degree at Harvard University
and received a graduate degree from Columbia University
in Business Administration. He is the Vice President
of the Harvard Club of Australia, an active mentor
to senior level executives in the not-for-profit
sector with Social Ventures Australia and a Director
of The Benevolent Society and The Sydney Festival.
He is a Fellow of The Australian Institute of Company
Directors and a member of The Sydney Institute.
Sam is a graduate of the Sydney Leadership Programme.
Sam and his wife Judy have two children. They make
their home in Sydney.
Paul Gilding
Paul has spent over 30 years working on sustainability
issues as an activist, a business leader and a
commentator.
From 1975 to 1995, Paul worked as an activist
on a range of social and environmental issues,
becoming the International Executive Director
of Greenpeace in 1992. In 1995, Paul established
Ecos Corporation (www.ecoscorporation.com), advising
leading corporations on sustainability including
DuPont, Ford, Anglo American, ANZ and IAG.
In late 2005 Paul also became CEO of Easy Being
Green, an Australian company which up until September
2007 used carbon trading to drive mass consumer
action on energy efficiency. Unfortunately, due
to the collapse of the carbon price in the NSW
Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme in 2007, Easy
Being Green was forced to close its doors. In
the 18 months that it operated, Easy Being Green
cut more than 4.3 million tones of CO2.
Paul is a member of the Core Faculty of the
Prince of Wales’s Business and the Environment
Program run by Cambridge University (www.cpi.cam.ac.uk/bep)
and is the founder of it’s Australian program,
writes regular columns for The Australian newspaper,
is a Founding Director of the internet based youth
charity The Inspire Foundation (www.inspire.org.au),
is a Director of the Australian Business Community
Network and is member of the Foundation Council
of the Australian Davos Connection (www.ausdavos.org).
In 1992 the World Economic Forum (WEF) appointed
Paul as a Global Leader for Tomorrow, followed
in 1993 with an Australia Day Award for Outstanding
Achievement for services to the environment. In
1994, he was listed by Time International in its
“Time’s Global 100 Young Leaders for the New Millennium”
and in 1997, he received the prestigious Tomorrow
Magazine Environmental Leadership Award.
Paul is married with 5 children.
MICHAEL GALE
Michael is one of the three co-founders of Gramercy
Venture Advisors. Prior to Gramercy Michael spent
the previous eight years as CEO of Double Impact,
a leading San Francisco venture catalyst.
Michael has helped in the development, funding,
growth and exit of over 100 early stage technology
companies from around the world. He has extensive
international experience in building, funding
and managing start-up companies.
Prior to Double Impact, Michael was Managing
Director of Macromedia's Asian operation during
the three years leading to its very successful
NASDAQ listing in December 1993.
As well as his involvement across the full range
of activities at Gramercy Venture Advisors and
Gramercy Private Equity and serving on the various
group Boards and Investment Review Committees,
Michael is also Chairman of Chat Ventures (New
York) – www.chattheplanet.com,
WebND Technologies (Beijing) – www.huanxun.cn
and www.isino.com,
Trusted Delivery (Melbourne) – www.trusteddelivery.com
and E Ball Games (Melbourne) – www.eballgames.com.au
. In addition Michael also sits on the Boards
of Digital Marketing Solutions (Bangkok) – www.dmsasialimited.com,
My Place Online (Adelaide) – www.myplaceonline.com.au
and Byron Organics (Byron Bay).
SILVIO SALOM
Silvio Salom is a proven chief executive, change
agent and entrepreneur. His expertise in successfully
growing technology companies has been acquired
and proven through considerable experience. Silvio
is an experienced chief executive and non-executive
Board member of private and public companies.
He has operational expertise with start-ups, as
well as with large, rapidly growing companies.
Silvio has deep strengths in technology commercialisation,
international expansion, mergers and acquisitions,
capital raising and publicly listed operations.
The focus of Silvio's work has been as a technology
supplier to Aerospace & Defence, Telecommunication,
Aviation, E-commerce, Enterprise and Training
markets on a global basis.
In 1987 Silvio founded Adacel Technologies Ltd,
in Melbourne, as a private company to service
the aerospace and defence markets with leading
edge technology solutions. Silvio built Adacel
to be a $100m world leader in its markets, listing
the company in 1998, acquiring a major global
player in North America and transitioning the
business to the USA. Silvio is Managing Director
of Adacel. In 1990 Silvio co-founded Lochard Pty
Ltd to deliver best-of-breed environment monitoring
solutions to airports. Silvio remains a non-executive
director of Lochard and today, the $20m company
is the clear leader in its global market. As with
Adacel, Silvio used advanced technology to secure
customer preference and acquisition of a USA major
to realise global market leadership.
Silvio currently serves as Chairman of Gramercy
Venture Advisors, as an ITC Advisory Board member
for the CSIRO, in the Cooperative Research Centres
for Intelligent Decision Systems and Smart Internet
Technology and as a non-executive director of
LogoMedia Inc, a company Silvio founded in Boston
to address the on-line machine translation market.
He has also served as a director for Melbourne
University Private, Vice Chairman of Airport Industries
Australia and as founding Board member of the
IT&T Skills Hub.
