Mark Schroeder - Chief Executive Officer Mark Schroeder has spent 25 years in marketing and media. After attaining tertiary marketing qualifications and working in advertising in London, he moved to Australia in the early 1980's. Since then his career has traversed every facet of the marketing landscape including 5 years as Marketing Manager of the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts and 9 years specialising in the retail industry as General Manager of prominent advertising agency The Ideas Group working with clients as diverse as Australia Post, Rebel Sport, Barbeques Galore, Radio Rentals, Capt’n Snooze, The Athletes Foot, Priceline and many others. He led project teams delivering significant brand repositioning campaigns for a number of these retailers, founding the agency’s Sydney operation along the way. Besides his role with Emstream, he owns Swordfish Advertising and Marketing, a media buying and marketing consultancy. Susan Jersky - General Manager Susan has many years of experience in retail management and service in the music industry. Over this time of being intimately involved in music both professionally and personally she has developed a deep and extensive knowledge and love of an eclectic range of music. At the operational level, she has hands-on expertise in a wide range of business skills including building a successful business from start up phase. As the founder of Emstream, Susan brings her enduring passion and experience to the company with the aim of continuing to deliver innovative and improved services. Ivan Schwartz- Business Development Manager Ivan brings over 15 years of Retail automation experience to the Emstream business. Having emigrated from South Africa in 1979, Ivan completed a Business Studies degree at the University of Technology Sydney, specialising in Marketing and Advertising. He was involved with the successful turnaround and growth of Record Clubs of Australia and the World Record Club in New Zealand and is currently a Director of Harbour Business Solutions, a specialist Relationship Marketing Consultancy business based in Sydney. Over the past five years Ivan has been instrumental in developing and managing a number of innovative marketing programs across a wide variety of retail environments. This skill-set will be invaluable to the business in the deployment of both the Emvision and Emwaves platforms. Lefroy Verghese Lefroy Verghese (known also as DJ Ritual / Tape2Tape) has over 15 years experience in every facet of the music industry. This includes running 2 record labels and releasing music on both major and independent labels which continue to get support from artists across the world, to ushering in a love for beat orientated music in the mid 90’s in Sydney with some of Sydney’s music hierarchy. This coupled with having residency’s in Sydney’s most coveted clubs and running a successful record store for over 10 years ensures that Emstream secures the highest quality of music from both abroad and home. Christian Markham Christian has a proven track record in Information Technology Network Management and possesses key leadership skills with the focus on providing quality service to clients. Previous roles have included technical support for a range of platforms and applications, network architecture development and management and server support in both government and private enterprise. Christian has certifications in Scala, Cisco, Microsoft and Nortell platforms.