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Our judges have started and studied all kinds of businesses all over the world.
Global Judges
- John Butler
- Andy Freire
- Heather Gorringe
- Charles Matthews
- Steve Felice
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John Butler, Ph.D. John Sibley Butler holds The Gale Chair in Entrepreneurship and Small Business in the Graduate School of Business (Department of Management). He is the Director of the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship and the Director of the Institute for Innovation and Creativity (IC2). More
Andy Freire Andy Freire is co-founder and CEO of Axialent. He is an entrepreneur in both business and social realms. After working at Procter & Gamble, he founded and led Officenet, a company that revolutionized the industry of distribution (retail) of office supplies in Latin America. When he was eighteen, he created the Fundación Iniciativa for the promotion of leadership among Latin American youth. More
Heather Gorringe 2008 Global Small Business Excellence Award Winner Heather is the founder of Wiggly Wigglers and gets to do all the jobs nobody else wants to do. When she's not recording company podcasts, keeping the Wiggly Community together or sorting out the next catalog, you'll often find her on the telephone looking for great new products. More
Charles Matthews, Ph.D. Dr. Matthews is an internationally recognized scholar and teacher in the field of entrepreneurship. His teaching and research interests include: strategic management; small, entrepreneurial and family-owned ventures; and leadership succession in family/privately held firms. More
Steve Felice Steve Felice serves as senior vice president and president of Dell's Small and Medium Business group. In this role, he is responsible for operations, sales and marketing activities serving small and medium business customers worldwide and leads one the company's top five global initiatives. Prior to his current role, Mr. Felice was president of Dell's Asia Pacific and Japan region. More
Australia Judges
- Kevin O'Kane
- Graeme Newey
- Brian Gibson
- Margaret Drever
- Chris Witt
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Kevin O'Kane General Manager Small and Medium Business Dell Australia and New Zealand Kevin O'Kane, General Manager, Dell Australia and New Zealand, manages the Small and Medium Business sectors. Kevin joined Dell in 1999 as a Strategy Consultant in the Office of the Chairman strategy group based in Austin, where he lead a variety of market opportunity and organizational assessments. Later he transitioned to Tokyo Japan and led the transition of the Home and Small Business Brand teams from country structure to regional structure, leading teams in 6 countries across APJ. Following that he took responsibility for advertising across APJ for the Home and Small business units. He then transitioned to Sydney as the General Manager for SMB and has led the team to greater than 30% year on year growth. Kevin has previous experience in Consulting with Accenture and Booz Allen Hamilton at a variety of client engagements focused in high tech and telecom. Kevin holds a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Ohio State University.
Graeme Newey With extensive experience over that past 20 years in the IT industry, Graeme Newey has a comprehensive range of both technical and business skills which have been accumulated in various roles and aspects of the IT technical certification & training sector.
He is also co-founder & director of EXCOM Education - the number 1 authorised technical training organisation in Australia, which has also recently expanded to become an international provider and compete on the world stage. EXCOM has established a record of excellence in its field over time, being recognized & accredited by all the major global technical software vendors, and winning many regional & global awards for innovation & best practice. EXCOM is also actively involved in influencing the direction of IT industry technical certification through participation in several high-level vendor & community advisory bodies, where the directors' experience in this sector from its very beginning has positioned them with world class knowledge, understanding & vision.
Brian Gibson Professor of Accounting at The University of New England in Armidale, NSW, Australia.
He has extensive teaching experiences that include entrepreneurial and small business finance courses at the University of Newcastle and the University of New South Wales. Prior to, and for some time concurrently with, his University appointments, Brian operated an accounting and management consulting practice in the Newcastle area. Brian's major research interests are associated with the means by which owners of small enterprises gather and utilise information to aid in the management of their businesses. He has contributed to two books on finance related issues and has published in the Journal of Small Business Management, Small Business Economics, Small Enterprise Research, Australian Tax Forum, The Journal of Small Business Finance, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Accounting and Business Research as well as having an extensive conference and other publications list. Brian is the current editor of Small Enterprise Research, the Journal of the Small Enterprise Association of Australia and New Zealand and is a Past President and Wilford White Fellow of the International Council for Small Business.
Margaret Drever President, Small Enterprise Association of Australia and New Zealand (SEAANZ) Associate Professor, Charles Sturt University Dr Margaret Drever FCPA is the Director of Accounting & Business Programs Charles Sturt University Study Centres, Sydney and Melbourne (Study Group Australia). She is currently one of the 2008 Vice Presidents for CPA Australia NSW Divisional Council and Chair of the NSW CPA Australia Universities Liaison Officers' Committee. She is currently the President of SEAANZ and Senior Vice-President - Programs ICSB. For a couple of years Margaret was the liaison for the SME committee for CPA Australia NSW Divisional Council. She has had extensive teaching experience at tertiary and postgraduate levels specialising in accounting theory, business finance and management accounting. Dr Drever has an undergraduate degree in accounting with a sub major in law from University of Western Sydney, postgraduate qualifications in education from University of Technology, masters in accounting and entrepreneurship and a PhD from the University of New England. Her doctorate provides an insight into small business liquidity over a number of industries. Therefore research interests focus on small business financial management issues, entrepreneurship and accounting education. Prior to taking an academic position Margaret worked as an accountant for Boral Limited and was a Director of a small engineering company.
Christopher Witt Mr. Witt's investment practice seeks value-capturing businesses built by experienced executives in the ICT, communications & healthcare technology sectors. His 15 years in line-level operations included management of acquisitions, distribution networks, marketing & sales, and strategic relationships. Chris brings an ability to assist Boards & Executives to sharpen their strategic focus, unlock value through clarity and execution, leverage the business into new markets, or commercialize those most promising development efforts.
The Kalori Group mission includes: direct investments in promising businesses; second, advice to Boards and Executives on value-capture and tactical strategy; third, delivers educational programs to develop stronger entrepreneurial skills across the organization. Recent success stories from The Kalori Group include medical software house Health Communication Network (ASX: HCN), and world-class super capacitor maker Cap-XX (LSE AIM: CPX). Other investments include Body Online, Hostworks, Mobile Innovations, Just White Shirts, GoWireless and Unique Solutions Inc. Mr. Witt has served on the Boards of numerous Australian and American companies as either Director or Alternate, including Health Communication Network Ltd, CVC Private Equity, Telebase Systems (acquired by Internet retailer CD Now), Digitran Corp (later NetMoves, Inc: NTMV-NASDAQ), and Unique Solutions Inc. Prior to founding The Kalori Group in 1998, Chris served as General Manager, Radio Products Group with Motorola; previously, he served in a number of Senior Executive positions within Telstra, both in Australia and the United States; and he served regional Bell System telecommunications company Ameritech Corporation in Chicago. Mr. Witt is the inaugural Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at UNSW. In this part time role he organizes an annual Innovation Frontiers conference, facilitates university research & sponsorship efforts, and coordinates government policy contributions. Chris also teaches through the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD), in Raising Capital (Part I & Part II). Before coming to Australia, he was a part-time Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering at DePaul University in Chicago. Mr. Witt is currently working on a book titled "The Blackjack Strategy -An Entrepreneur's Handbook" for small business owners. An MBA graduate from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, Chris also has a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering and Economics from Northwestern in Chicago, where he grew up. He is presently a Fellow of the AICD, and holds dual Australian and American citizenship.
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- No Purchase Required. To enter, go to www.dell.com.au/sbaward, fill in a Contest application, and submit the requested materials. Contest is available to small businesses that employ 100 or fewer individual employees or individual independent contractors (full or part-time) headquartered in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Some specific requirements will apply to entrants from various countries. See section [8] below for your country-specific rules. No government or quasi-governmental entities may enter. Person submitting application must be an officer or other authorised representative of the entrant. Businesses chosen to advance to the National Finalist round of judging described in section [5] will be required to verify the annual revenue submitted in their application. Winner and Finalists must submit unaudited financial statements from a certified practising accountant (CPA) by specified date or forfeit prize. A non-disclosure agreement (NDA) will be provided for both parties to sign to ensure privacy of financial data.
- Entrant will be required to demonstrate how the company has used information technology (IT) to deliver superior customer experience. They must 1) describe the innovative ways they use IT in their business to better serve customers(20% of score); 2) show how it has led to significant improvements in the experience of their customers (40% of score); 3) show how they use IT to better manage business operations (15% of score); 4) show how the innovative use of IT has affected the success of the business i.e. growth, profitability, cost reductions (15% of score); 5) tell how the company's use of IT creates a competitive advantage (10% of score). The judging panels made up of entrepreneurs, small-business experts and representatives from Dell and its partners will select up to 10 National Finalists per country, one National Winner per country, and one Global Winner.
- Award Submissions must be complete on or before 11:59 p.m. EST, April 3, 2009. All entries become the exclusive property of Dell and will not be acknowledged or returned. Judges decisions are final.
- In order to advance to Finalist judging, the top 30 to 50 entries per country, determined by Dell and its national partners, will be required to submit three customer testimonials and annual revenues for the past fiscal year. The additional information will aid in the Finalist and Winner judging sessions; see section [5] for additional details. Testimonials and 2008 revenues must be received between April 20 and May 1, 2009, at 11:59 p.m. EST. Ten National Finalists will be notified by email or phone by June 2009 and announced in July 2009. National Winners will be notified by email or phone by August 2009 and announced publicly in September 2009. (Note: individuals are not winners or finalists, only eligible companies as set forth in Rule 1.) The Global Award Winner will be announced in US Fall 2009.
- Judging Process and Prizes: Prizes will be awarded based on the results of three (3) phases of judging.
PHASE ONE: Each country's Finalist judging panel will determine up to 10 country-level Finalists (up to 130 National Finalists selected worldwide) to be considered for that country's National Winner Award. Each of these National Finalists will receive a Dell business-class laptop computer with a maximum value of US$1500 and training vouchers from EXCOM Education to the value of AU$2370.These prizes cannot be exchanged for any cash amount under any circumstances and the Finalist must abide by any regulations or terms of membership imposed by the national partner. See section [8] below for your country-specific Finalist Award value. The National Finalist selected as the National Winner (13 National Winners total) forfeits their US$1500 laptop award for the National Award value. PHASE TWO: The second phase of judging will determine the National Winner. The National Winner panel of judges will review the applications, testimonials, and revenue data for each National Finalist and determine a National Winner. The National Winners receive a day scheduled by Dell with Dell experts and other regional winners to share best practices, including conference time with Michael Dell, subject to his availability. Dell will make arrangements for the company owner plus two staff people (3 people per National Winner) to travel to a Dell chosen location within the region. Up to two nights of lodging, meals, ground and air transportation will be paid for by Dell (average value of "Day at Dell" travel package is between US$4,500 and US$10,000 per company, dependant on air travel costs). In addition, National Winners will receive US$25,000 in technology and services from Dell to be used in Winner's business. Presented as a credit to be used for up to US$15,000 in Dell Small-Business products only at Dell on-line prices at time of purchase prior to Oct. 31, 2010, as well as Dell professional services based on Dell's assessment of customer's business needs (up to a maximum US$10,000 at standard Dell rates) used prior to Oct. 31, 2010. Finally, the Australian National Winner receive training vouchers from EXCOM Education to the value of AU$9000, one year membership to SEAANZ, and registration for 2 persons to the annual SEAANZ conference in Wellington, New Zealand in September 2009. These prizes cannot be exchanged for any cash amount under any circumstances and the Winner must abide by any regulations or terms of membership imposed by the national partners. See section [8] below for your country-specific Winner Award value. The National Winner selected as the Global Winner forfeits their US$25,000 technology award for the Global Award value. PHASE THREE: The third phase of judging will determine the Global Winner. The Global Winner panel of judges will review the applications, testimonials, and revenue data for each National Winner and determine a Global Winner. The Global Winner will be featured in a global entrepreneur's summit, including conference time with Michael Dell, subject to his availability. Dell will make arrangements for the company owner plus one staff person to travel to the summit (location to be announced). Up to two nights of lodging, meals, ground and air transportation will be paid for by Dell (average value of summit travel package is between US$4,000 and US$8,000, dependant on air travel costs). In addition, the Global Winner will receive US$50,000 in technology and services from Dell to be used in Winner's business. Presented as a credit to be used for up to US$30,000 in Dell Small-Business products only at Dell on-line prices at time of purchase prior to Oct. 31, 2010, as well as Dell professional services based on Dell's assessment of customer's business needs (up to a maximum US$20,000 at standard Dell rates) used prior to Oct. 31, 2010. Finally, the Global Winner will receive a lifetime membership to the International Council for Small Business (ICSB) and engagement with Endeavor's network of business leaders and high-impact entrepreneurs in emerging markets worldwide. This membership cannot be exchanged for any cash amount under any circumstances and the winner must abide by any regulations or terms of membership imposed by ICSB. (Global prize value is approximately US$70,000). No cash or prize substitutions or transfer of prizes, except by Dell, who reserves the right to substitute a prize or prize component at its sole discretion with cash or another prize of comparable or greater value. Winner's technology and services purchases from Dell must be used in Winner's business; Dell reserves the right to limit Winner's technology and services choices to those that can be used in Winner's business. - Dell, ICSB, Endeavor and NFIB assume no responsibility for lost, stolen, delayed, damaged or misdirected entries or for any failure of the website during the entry period, for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer on-line systems, servers, access providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any e-mail or entry to be received by Dell on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website, or any combination thereof including any injury or damage to an entrant's or any other person's computer related to or resulting from entering or down loading any material in connection with this contest. Dell, ICSB, Endeavor and NFIB reserve the right, in their sole discretion to cancel or suspend this contest should a virus, bug or other cause beyond the reasonable control of Dell corrupt the security or proper administration of the contest. Any attempt to deliberately damage any web site or to undermine the legitimate operation of this promotion is a violation of criminal and civil laws, and should such an attempt be made, Dell reserves the right to seek remedies and damages to the fullest extent permitted by law, including criminal prosecution.
- Except where prohibited by law, Winners and Finalists consent to the use of entrant's name and logo and entrant materials (with the exception of confidential financial information) in publicity, advertising and promotional materials for Dell and/or ICSB, Endeavor, NFIB, EXCOM Education and SEAANZ without further compensation, and agree to cause entrant principals to appear, by name and photograph, in such materials. Submission of an entry further constitutes the entrant's irrevocable assignment and transfer to Dell, ICSB, Endeavor, NFIB, EXCOM Education and SEAANZ any and all rights, title and interest in and to the submission including, without limitation, the copyright and all intellectual property rights and the right to publish and exploit the submission in any and all media worldwide, without limitation and without compensation to the entrant, and entrant may or may not be attributed as the source of the entry material.
- Country Specific Requirements: Applicants from AUSTRALIA must be a for-profit, limited liability company, limited liability partnership or other partnership, or sole proprietorship formed pursuant to the laws of Australia, and in good standing in the relevant jurisdiction. Australian National Finalists receive a Dell business-class laptop computer with a maximum value of US$1500 and training vouchers from EXCOM Education to the value of AU$2370. Australian Finalist prize value is approximately US$3150. The Australian National Winner receives US$25,000 in technology and services from Dell to be used in Winner's business, training vouchers from EXCOM Education to the value of AU$9000, one year membership to SEAANZ, and registration for 2 persons to the annual SEAANZ conference in Wellington, New Zealand in September 2009 valued at approximately AU$2000. National Australian prize value is approximately US$33,000.
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Except where prohibited, you agree that any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of, or connected with, the Contest or any prize awarded shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, your rights and obligations, or the rights and obligations of the Sponsor in connection with the Contest, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Texas, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules (whether of the State of Texas or any other jurisdiction), which would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of Texas. Sponsors: Dell, Inc. One Dell Way, MS RR3-06, Round Rock, TX 78682 Endeavor, 900 Broadway, Suite 600, New York, NY 10003 ICSB, GWU School of Business, 2201 G. Street, NW, Funger Hall Suite 315, Washington, D.C. 20052 National Federation of Independent Business, 1201 F Street, NW, Suite 200, Washington, D.C. 20004 EXCOM Education, 150 Gladstone Street, South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3205 Small Enterprise Association of Australia and New Zealand (SEAANZ), PO Box: 9079, Marion Square, Wellington, Nth Island 6011. New Zealand |
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