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.
Simon Foster - Customer Services & Support Director
Simon Foster is responsible for managing the delivery of support services, data centre operations and internal IT. Before joining us here at Blue Central, Simon held management positions at a number of leading digital media organisations, including VP, Technical Services, EMEA and Asia Pacific at DoubleClick and Director of Advertising Technology Services at Lycos Europe.
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James Leitch - Director of Products & Services
James Leitch is the Director for Products & Services in BlueCentral. James and his team are responsible for the creation, implementation and management of the hosted products and services across the shared & enterprise hosting and mobility connectivity business. James's team bridges between sales, marketing and operations in implementing new products, services and processes to help drive BlueCentral to become more Customer centric with greater operational sales and marketing efficiency.
James has 15 years experience in the IT industry in a range of disciplines including technical pre and post-sales, sales, product and business management around server & infrastructure technologies. James's background includes a successful career path at IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu-Siemens and Microsoft where he was responsible for driving growth of server & storage hardware & infrastructure solutions in the UK and also Australia.
James has joined BlueCentral to leverage his experience in server solutions, business and product management with an appetite to drive BlueCentral growth.
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Manjula Kularathne - General Manager of Security Products
Manjula Kularathne is responsible for developing the strategy for security products and services which will compliment the underlying BlueCentral technologies and business. Manjula was the Security Architect/ Manager for SOUL Converged Communications and also headed the Network Security Infrastructure division at Dialog Telekom PLC, a subsidiary of Telekom Malaysia Group.
Manjula brings to this critical role, over nine years of expertise in security architecture, best practices, compliance, risk management and managed security services from the Telecommunications industry.
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