Biagio La Rosa Managing Director
In his role as Managing Director, Biagio is responsible for business management and strategy, product development, vendor selection and partner relationships. A combination of visionary and evangelist, Biagio is is one of Australia’s iconic IT professionals.
Prior to Generation-e Biagio pioneered the corporate IT world in Australia and New Zealand. Biagio held senior positions in IT giants such as 3Com, Anixter, and Extreme Networks. Much of today’s infrastructure both here and across the Tasman Sea, bears his mark. Mission critical networks are still ticking along at TABCorp, Crown Casino, Carter Holt Harvey, TelstraClear, Commander (PlesTel) and NEC. For the last 20 years Biagio has been building infrastructure based around “the cloud” for Australian business and his commitment to evolving technologies continues today.
FAVOURITE QUOTE: “We are plumbers.”
Victor Khong Chief Operations Officer
Victor Khong manages the professional engineering team. Responsible for the smooth overall operation of Generation-e and its growing services business, Victor's role extends into finance and administration.
A senior professional with a strong technical lineage, and equally strong customer commitment, Victor has amassed 18 years’ experience in IT products and services, with roles in project management, pre-sales, product management, professional services management, and new business development. Victor’s career consists of previous roles with heavy weights such as HP, Alpha West, Touchbase, 3Com, Anixter, and Ipex. He instigated and managed a burgeoning professional services business for 3Com in the Asia Pacific region. This involved kick starting the services project through to achieving ISO9000 certification for the entire region. Victor effectively oversaw complex, large budget projects in China, Korea, Japan, and South East Asia.
Victor graduated with a Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) from Monash University.
FAVOURITE QUOTE: “Put it in the spreadsheet.”
Elly Temelcos Chief Strategy Officer
A seasoned marketing professional with 17 years’ experience in business-to-business communications, Elly primarily manages the marketing department. In addition, she provides strategic direction and planning for growth initiatives in other facets and departments of Generation-e.
Elly spent a number of years with the scientific equipment manufacturer, SGE as an international marketing manager and product manager, managing both end-user and channel models. She forged highly profitable OEM relationships with global parent companies in the US, Germany, Japan, and the UK. In addition she managed marketing communications for the company’s 10 offices and a global channel of 60 resellers in both English speaking and non-English speaking countries. Elly has lectured to companies, training organisations and tertiary institutions in marketing, public relations, and business management. A unique blend of artistic flair and scientific reason, her words have circled the globe with a body of work that includes all media.
Elly has Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees from the University of Melbourne as well as a post-graduate qualification in Marketing from RMIT. She is also a graduate of the prestigious AWARD School of advertising and the Summer Film School.
FAVOURITE QUOTE: “We don't do print.”
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