Senior Management
Anthony Banek - Managing Director
Anthony Banek is currently the Managing Director for the BlueCentral Hosting Solutions division of BlueFreeway Ltd. Anthony is responsible for overseeing the division's expanding business, including overall direction and strategy, new initiatives, technologies and market penetration.
Anthony has eleven years experience within the IT and hosting industry in the Asia Pacific region. He developed one of Australia's first internet based classifieds portals in 1996 and founded Australia?s first Microsoft? Windows based web hosting companies, Webtrader.
Anthony also founded Ozhosting.com Advanced a division of destra Corporation Ltd (ASX:DES), an Enterprise Hosting Specialist in 2001 which has now become the Enterprise Hosting specialist division of BlueCentral.
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Ross Dour - Chief Technology Officer
Ross Dour is the Chief Technology Officer at BlueCentral, responsible for the creation and implementation of technology strategy to compliment the underlying products and business. Under Ross Dour the BlueCentral technology initiatives are driven with a customer centric focus and form a central part of how Technology bridges between Sales, Creative, Operations and our Clients.
Ross has extensive experience in a range of project disciplines and project environments including experience in successfully managing large scale infrastructure and software projects in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Prior to joining BlueCentral Ross served as a senior consultant in a successful governance, risk and compliance firm as well as in product development and relationship management roles.
Ross brings to his role at BlueCentral a breadth of experience and a diverse background from his previous work in the United States, Asia and Australasia across a range of industries including Automotive, Gaming, Polymer Engineering, Medial Sciences and Utilities.
Frank Boffa - Customer Services Manager
Frank Boffa is the Customer Services Manager at BlueCentral, responsible for the management of customer service and technical support teams and a technical operations team that currently service over 8000 clients worldwide. The key driver for this role is to make a key contribution to the development of services based around emerging and existing technologies and assist the evolution to a customer service culture to ensure the highest levels of customer satisfaction in the product sets sold and used by our customers.
Frank has extensive experience in customer service disciplines and successfully developed and managed a number of teams within the data and telecommunication industry. Prior to joining BlueCentral Frank served as an senior Service and Operations Manager for Telstra Business Systems, BTAS and JTEC.
Frank brings to his role at BlueCentral over 20 years experience in the Customer Service arena and complements this with a diverse background as a Support Engineer and Sales.
Daniel Balfour – General Manager Mobility Products
Daniel Balfour is the General Manager for the Mobility division of BlueCentral. He is responsible for developing and implementing go-to-market strategies for BlueCentral's mobility solutions. This role signals BlueCentral's entry into the dynamic mobile communications market. He will be developing new product offerings and platform enhancements to ensure BlueCentral's Mobility services are best of breed globally.
Daniel's telecommunications background specialising in mobile messaging and communications products puts BlueCentral in a strong position to succeed in the emerging mobile business and mobile commerce markets. Daniel takes an active role in the industry and ensures BlueCentral is well represented within Communications Alliance and other industry bodies.
Daniel brings to his role at BlueCentral 9 years of experience in the mobile industry and has held product management and product marketing roles at Virgin Mobile prior to joining BlueCentral.
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