LOGISTICS AS STRATEGIC ADVANTAGE

Matthew O'Callagan

Managing Director

Onyx Australia Holdings

Director, Active Supply Chain Solutions

Director, Active Managed Logistics Solutions

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Bach Economics,
 Monash University (BEc)

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Matthew’s Fourth Party Logistics (4PL) and Managed Logistics Services experience over the past 16 years makes him one of the region’s leading authorities having led multiple contracts in automotive and FMCG
 industries. Matthew has 25+ years logistics consulting experience in Australia and SE Asia, with a focus on analysing, designing and implementing efficient logistics networks.

Richard Barlow

Chairman

Onyx Australia Holdings

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BL LLB University of Rhodesia and MBA from the University of Cape Town.

 

After a period as a barrister Richard became corporate counsel for one of South Africa's largest conglomerates in the 1980's. He emigrated with his family to Australia in 1997 and was a founder in 1998 of Active Supply Chains Asia Pacific as well as an advisor to the JSE-listed DNA Supply Chains. He is a mergers and acquisitions specialist and has been instrumental in setting up the joint ventures that are the backbone of the Active Group

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Stephen Conradie

Director, Onyx Worldwide Holdings Ltd

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Bach of Law (University of Rhodesia)
 Bach of Laws (University of Rhodesia) (post-grad)
MBA (University of Cape Town) (post-grad)

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A visionary who can bring his concepts to life, Stephen has been one of South Africa’s industry-leading specialists in the logistics and supply chain arenas for over thirty years. Successful business builds were of XPS (mid-80s) which became the in-country agent for FedEx and of SMG (mid-90s) – the latter becoming the lead party in the JSE listing of DNA Supply Chains. He was also a founder of Active Supply Chains Asia Pacific

Craig Stanford

Managing Director - AMLS

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BE Chem (First Class Hons),

University of Adelaide

 

Craig leads several Managed Solution offerings for major clients, including industry leading B2C warehousing & delivery operations, and high level consulting operations for both long term & new clients: with a focus on manufacturing, FMCG, automotive & tyres, whitegoods and eCommerce. Craig has 25+ years business experience, largely in Operations, Planning, Solution Design, Sales, and Business Improvement