Welcome
Gerd Schenkel
MEDIA COVERAGE
Helping Organisations Succeed in a Digital World
Current appointments
Partner
Financial Services/ Telco & Digital/ Technology/ Advanced Analytics
Since 2021
Chairman
A fintech listed on ASX (ASX:CCR)
Since 2019
Non Executive Director
A mortgage insurance provider listed on ASX (ASX:GMA)
Since 2021
Helping Organisations Succeed in a Digital World
Past appointments
Project Leader
Based in Sydney, Los Angeles and New York
Chief Executive Officer
A payment fintech with a banking license (ASX:TYR)
Executive Director - Telstra Digital
Established and lead one of Australia's largest digital team and program
2011-2016
Founder and Managing Director
Launched Australia's largest home-grown digital bank for National Australia Bank
2008-2011
General Manager Customer Strategy & Cross-Marketing
Director Strategy (Australia)
Reading (listening) list: Exploring our reality
My favourite blogs, podcasts and books
Are we living in a simulation?
Elon Musk makes the case
How do we break the simulation?
George Hotz has a plan
How does the universe work?
Genius Stephen Wolfram explains
Is reality real?
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Maybe not ...
Do we have free will?
Sam Harris' concise summary
Is there a god?
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Richard Dawkins says "no"
What is conscious-ness ?
Annika Harris summarises
Parallel universes and reality
Brian Greene takes you on a journey
From Big Bang to Quantum fields
Frank Wilczek - a modern day Einstein
Superintelligence - Future of AI
Nick Bostrom
Reading (listening) list: Business
My favourite blogs, podcasts and books
How to negotiate
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Learn from hostage negotiations
Latest goss in digital
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Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway
Products that don't suck
Clayton Christensen
Opinions about digital
Scott Galloway unfiltered
Daily tech news
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Wall Street Journal
Reading (listening) list: Current issues
My favourite blogs, podcasts and books
Universal basic income
Andrew Yang
Where our society is going
Sam Harris
Legendary documen-taries
Louis Theroux
Celebrating the Apollo program
13 minutes to the moon
Daily (US) news summary
Up First - NPR
The story of Klaus Fuchs, atomic spy
The Bomb - BBC
Industry news
Leadership in a Digital World
Academic training
Columbia Business School
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
New York
University of Sydney
Visiting Scholar: Robotics
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At the Mechatronics department, I wrote a thesis on control architectures of mobile robots.
Northwestern University
Graduate Engineering Studies: Robotics
I completed graduate coursework in Engineering and wrote a thesis on "Passivity of sampled control systems". Some of this work was published in Academic journals, here and here. These papers were cited over 600 times.
Universität Stuttgart
Master of Science
(Engineering/ Robotics)
I obtained my Master degree in Engineering.
Some of the things I did at Tyro.
MAKING THE MOST OF THE DIGITAL ECONOMY.
Telstra CEO Andy Penn about "becoming a world class technology company"
at the 2015 Australian Digital Summit
Telstra CEO David Thodey about "becoming a digital organisation"
at the 2014 Australian Digital Summit
On a panel about "startups vs. corporates"
at the 2014 Australian Digital Summit.
Our views about how Australian organisations can make the most of the digital economy.
Telstra's digital transformation journey.
Some of the things we've done for our Telstra customers.
Telstra CEO David Thodey about digital potential.
How we get our customers involved at Telstra.
SOME PRESENTATION MATERIAL
Sharing Telstra's digital transformation journey.
Hosted a panel at the 2015 Australian Digital Summit.
How we think about the Digital Revolution
Interview about Design Thinking.
Fireside chat at Sydney CDO Club conference.
MEDIA COVERAGE
Some news we published at Telstra
Five years of digital transformation.
OTHER ORGANIZATIONS I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED WITH
I was on the inaugural Advisory Board of this new accelerator, launched in 2014
International shopping platform
I helped source the initial investment in 2011
Electronic prescribing provider
I was on the team that launched the original business, then called "Amicore". This started as a JV of Pfizer, Microsoft and IBM in 2001
TALK TO ME :)
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FUN
Vietnam motorcycle tour 2015
