Reg Coutts is the owner and director of Coutts Communications and is Professor Emeritus of the University of Adelaide. Reg is Chairman of the Telecommunications Society of Australia (TSA) www.tsa.org.au and Director of the Telecommunications Board of the Australian Computer Society (ACS) www.acs.org.au.

Reg came to the University in 1993 as Professor of Telecommunications at the University of Adelaide where he built the industry sponsored Centre for Telecommunications Information Networking (CTIN) undertaking contract research and consultancy for the telecommunications industry. Prior to the University, Reg had seventeen years experience with Telstra in Melbourne covering research through to business management. From 1988 at Telstra Reg was the National Manager for Strategy and Business Development for the Telstra mobiles business and developed business opportunities and managed the relationship with Government and the regulator.

Reg graduated in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering completing his PhD in communications engineering in 1976. Reg is a senior member of the IEEE, a Fellow of the IEAust and a Fellow of the ACS.

Since the early 90’s Professor Coutts has been involved in technology commercialisation and was inaugural Chair of the Board of Studies of the innovative Masters in Science and Technology Commercialisation (MSTC) now part of the Education Centre for Innovation and Commercialisation www.ecic.adelaide.edu.au and continues to work with ECIC and technology start ups. Reg has also been a Director on a number of Boards of start up ventures including m.Net www.mnetcorporation.com and AITEC www.aitec.edu.au both of which are trading successfully today.

Professor Coutts has had over 30 years experience in the telecommunications industry and is the key innovator behind the new venture Red Button Technologies.

www.couttscommunications.com
reg.coutts@redbuttontechnologies.com.au
Cell Phone +61 414 477 766

Justin is an “industrial and technology entrepreneur and marketer”. For the last 13 years he has worked in his consulting practice JWPM Consulting, http://www.jwpm.com.au which he set-up in 1994. Justin works with companies that sell B2B (business to business) and companies that market technical products and services. He now consults to and advises a wide range of clients across Australia.

In 1994 Justin participated in an MBA style program as a part of the National Enterprise Workshop series http://www.saenterpriseworkshop.com/ and completed an intensive Entrepreneurship Program. Justin has continued his involvement with Enterprise Developments Incorporated delivering an annual marketing course to workshop participants. He has considerable experience analysing and working with business start-ups.

Over the last 5 years Justin has worked in a business development and marketing role with an electronic engineering and manufacturing firm that sells alerting systems and products to aged care, hospitals, emergency services and to local government. Justin participated in the design and tendering of radio paging, nurse call, CCTV, radio pendent based alerting systems, intercoms, access control systems and private mobile telephony systems targeting customers throughout Australia. He has a good working knowledge of the technology particularly radio communications networks (both hardware and software) that support security and alerting systems.

Prior experience includes: ATCO Industries (Group Manager Marketing); ATCO Homes (National Sales and Marketing Manager), Adelaide Casino (Marketing Manager, Advertising Manager), Young and Rubicam Advertising (Cato Johnson Division), Leo Burnett Advertising, and News Limited.

Justin has contributed to the refinement of the Red Button product concept and developed the Red Button Technologies brand.

justin.wearne@redbuttontechnologies.com.au
Cell Phone +61 414 744 481