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Cameron has an extensive career in the hospitality and tourism industry, having held senior management and executive positions in more than 30 hotel operations throughout Australasia and using this experience in leadership roles representing and advocating for the tourism industry. Currently Cameron is working with Alloggio, Australasia’s largest player in the holiday letting accommodation industry in the role of GM Operations
Cameron has held numerous leadership roles for the industry in regional tourism over the past 14 years having been Chair of the regional tourism organisations for the North Coast of NSW for this length of time including the appointment to the Destination North Coast as its inaugural Chair. He is a founding Director of the NSW Tourism Association and member of Cape Byron Trust. He is former President of the Northern Rivers branch of the NSW Business Chamber Regional Advisory Council and sat on the Council for the NSW Business Chamber. He was the inaugural President and instrumental in the formation of Destination Byron, the local tourism organisation for Byron Shire since 2011. He also sits on the Cape Byron Trust Board, the Northern Rivers Rail Trail Management committee,The Big Banana and has been a judge for the NSW State Tourism Awards. In 2016 Cameron was awarded "Outstanding Contribution by an Individual" at the NSW Tourism Awards, the industries highest acknowledgement in NSW.
In his commercial endeavors, Cameron was CEO and founder of Flash Camp, a revolutionary glamping operation offering "pop-up hotels" and temporary accommodation across Australia. Flash Camp won Gold at the 2015 NSW tourism awards for Specialised tourism services. He held the leasehold of Apartments Inn Byron, a multi-award winning 43 room hotel in the very heart of Byron Bay since 2009 and was CEO of Consolidated Domain Resorts, managing letting agreements for over 1000 rooms along the eastern seaboard, including 420 in the Tweed Coast region of Northern NSW.
Cameron has recently launched a new venture in the organic food waste sector dealing with the problem that food waste causes in landfill.
Cameron is available for consulting, knowledge sharing and guest speaker engagements on tourism management, hotel and accommodation management, digital use in tourism and local and regional tourism matters 
My career is characterized by positions requiring high level conceptual, lateral and strategic thinking abilities; excellent written and oral communications; exceptional leadership as well as outstanding personal abilities regarding flexibility and adaptability.
My career has evolved across the strategic, conceptual, analytical management continuum. Working by myself or in teams, my career as a successful business executive, is characterised by a high level of motivation, passion and commitment to deliver the highest quality of client service. My diverse work experience highlights my capacity and capability to assess and identify opportunities, prioritise activities and manage internal and external stakeholders.
These skills have underpinned my ability to effectively engage, foster and manage stakeholders and clients. Trust and respect are at the core of all successful business relationships, regardless of corporate, public or non government sector status, my ability to listen, learn, engage and collaborate has resulted in myself and my employer executing organisational objectives.
My ability to plan, track and continuously evaluate ensures that I am constantly aware of how projects are progressing and where, if necessary, changes need to be made. My organisational skills, particularly through electronic systems, ensure that other staff are able to, where necessary, easily engage with project plans and current and future activities.
Specialties:
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Account Management
- Business Development
- Relationship Management,
Project Management and IT Service Management,
Communication Skills
- Well developed oral and written communication skills
- Negotiation
- Liaison skills C-Suite executive (CIO, COO, CFO) and non-executive director with 25 years of global experience, across multiple geographies and industries.
EXPERIENCE AND CORE COMPETENCIES:
• An accomplished senior executive (CIO, COO and CFO) with 25 years of global experience in multinationals, banking, private equity, investment management, family offices and sovereign wealth funds.
• Significant functional experience in finance, investments, risk management, governance, legal, product development, investor relations, capital raising and strategy.
• Substantial sector experience in banking (retail, corporate, investment), investment management (across all sectors, asset classes and geographies), government (investment strategy, deployment of capital, and implementation of corporate and operational governance frameworks), and real estate (investment, management, and development, in commercial, residential, industrial, and retail real estate).
• Extensive experience in successfully leading highly motivated, skilled, and culturally diverse teams through favourable and unfavourable circumstances, both internally and externally, achieving and even exceeding benchmark performance.
• 25 years of rich experience as a non-executive director on several operational and advisory boards in trade and investment, financial services, technology, funds management, family/private offices, property, education, healthcare, and medical research and endowments. I have also been an active and valuable member of the following board sub-committees: executive committee, audit, finance, risk, strategy, technology, projects, treasury, compliance, governance, operations, investments, remuneration and nominations.
KEY OPERATIONAL COMPETENCIES:
• Deep and longstanding relationships with government entities, required to facilitate efficient and cost-effective business.
• Principal responsibility for all matters pertaining to risk management and reporting, including interaction with regulators and government entities.
• Managing all aspects of corporate structuring and restructuring.
• Principal responsibility for all strategy, regulatory and prudential matters.
• Principal responsibility for developing and implementing multi-year business plans and budgets, securing board approvals in this regard, and forecasting and monitoring strategic results, profitability, and cash flow movements. 
