The Team:

Siegmund (Ziggy) Frankenfeld

Ziggy has spent over 20 Years in executive leadership (CEO/CFO) roles in both privately owned and listed corporations. He started off his professional career in corporate finance after qualifying as a chartered accountant. He rose to the level of Finance Director at one of South Africa’s largest IT companies, namely Datakor limited (now part of Dimension Data) before going on to found Unihold Business Solutions an IT infrastructure and systems house. Unihold was sold to Siemens Business Services in 2001, after which he spent a number of years as a turn around CEO, working on underperforming software companies. He migrated to Australia in 2004 where he joined Sirius Telecommunications initially as COO and later as CEO. He commenced with a career in consulting 2006.

He is currently chairman of the Advisory Board of Elco Food Company (Importers of “Dodoni” – the Greek Feta) and runs of Ziggy Frankenfeld Consulting where he specialises in Strategy Planning, Leadership Development, Executive Recruitment and Business Mentoring. His experience includes working with industry leaders in IT, Retail, Franchising, Consulting, Distribution, Law, Accounting, Architecture and Manufacturing. Ziggy has a keen interest in strategy and negotiation styles and uses NLP in to motivate growth-oriented high performance teams.

Ziggy Frankenfeld Consulting is a licensee of PACE Corporation’s 1PBP™ (One Page Business Plan) and Brian Tracy’s Leadership and Sales Training Solutions. The 1PBP™ is different from most strategic planning systems in that it moves from the theoretical into the practical world of getting things done by linking personal performance with corporate objectives. Most strategies fail on implementation and not on ideas. This process ensures there is full accountability and involvement by all key executives.

Ziggy was a member of YPO (Young Presidents Organization) between 1997 and 2005, having joined in Johannesburg, South Africa and later in Melbourne, Australia. During this time he was privileged to serve twice as moderator of his forum and participated in numerous international, national (Southern Africa and Australia/New Zealand) and chapter events as well as a stint on the Johannesburg chapter executive as communications chair. He is currently working with YPO and WPO (World presidents Organization) as a trainer and facilitator.

Experience:

Director, Ziggy Frankenfeld Consulting Pty Ltd - July 2006 to present

Chief Executive, Sirius Telecommunications Limited - June 2004 to June 2006

Managing Director, CCS Software Pty Ltd - February 2002 to January 2004

Chairman/ Managing Director, Unihold Business Solutions Pty Ltd - February 1997 to February 2002

Finance and Operations Director, SPL Limited - May 2005 to February 1997

Financial Director, Datakor Limited - October 1989 to April 2005

Senior Manager, Ernst & Young - January 1986 to September 1989

 

BIO –     Associates:

              

               John [Jed] Davis

               CPA, Post Grad. Dip. Marketing.

Jed is the founder of Brandspank, a consultancy specializing in Innovation and Brand Building and works closely with ZFC.

Jed has held senior Marketing and General Management positions with major multinationals including - H.J.Heinz (Director of Innovation, Category Managing Director Infant Feeding and Global Manager Convenience Meals) - The Mars Group (Marketing Sales Director Masterfoods and Marketing Manager Dog Food) and Carnation (Nestle) (Marketing Director) as well as buying, building and selling a successful business in Plastic Housewares branded Trent (in competition with Decor and Willow).

Jed has lead teams that originated some of Australia's favorite products and brands some of which have been launched internationally. Most notable are Dolmio, the MasterFoods Squeezemate innovation in Food Service, the Trend Microwave  Egg Poacher and the Heinz Very range of Soups. He has radically revamped floundering Brands when they  were in serious trouble, such as KanTong, Heinz Baby Food, Heinz Soups and GoCat and launched Smacko's in Australia.

Jed has developed an aggressive Portfolio Management concept of "Brand Roles" as a result of his extensive exposure to Multiple Brand Portfolios and is a firm believer in "competing with yourself".

At Mars - managing the Mars Petcare Dog Food portfolio and developing the Dolmio sub-brand portfolio.
At Heinz - setting up the multi-brand strategy for soup that enabled Heinz to take competitive share whilst protecting the base business, and YET.
At Carnation (Nestle) - he rationalized and collapsed a meaningless portfolio of Catfood brands to provide "focus" and resources to dramatically rebuild the GoCat brand.

His Global and international experience includes; Heinz - Global Manager Convenience Meals; Mars - Global Co-ordinator Dolmio & Pan Asian Strategist MasterFoods; Carnation (Nestle) - One of three members of the Pan European Petfood Rollout Team; and various trans-Tasman roles.

In a consulting capacity Jed works with clients such as Red Bull, MasterFoods, Heinz, the Visy Group (and their customers), Advertising Agencies George Patterson's and Nitro and aggressive SME's.

The thrust of Jed's work is about advising and assisting in the areas of -Growth leadership, Business Turnarounds, Product and Brand Development and rebuilding Flagging Brands & Portfolios.

Jed has also worked as a Market Researcher and in Advertising (where he worked on businesses as diverse as Data general, Beaurepaires, Denny's Restaurants, AAMI Insurance and Westpac (Bank of Melbourne). He has a Post. Grad. in Marketing, has lectured in Marketing Management at Monash/CIT and is a judge on the packaging Council of Australia awards.

Jed is a member of the Australian Society of Certified Practicing Accountants, having started his career at Irish Young and Outhwaite (Chartered Accountants) then moving to management accounting roles at Gillette.

Mobile: +61 418 251 121
Email:     jed@brandspank.com.au