Tom Gibbons – Chief Executive Officer
Tom has been with the Group since 2006 with 18-plus years' facilities and cleaning experience. He has an intimate knowledge of enterprise-wide and operational risk-management principles and practices, business development skills and proven applications to service contracts.
Tom’s expertise in facilities management was honed with Myer Stores Ltd, where he was the National Security and Risk Manager for 72 department stores. He then joined a large national cleaning and soft services company to develop and lead a specialised security and risk management company. After that, he specialised in facilities management as the National General Manager for four years.
Tom is particularly skilled in developing innovative service solutions, with, and on behalf of, clients. He has instigated and developed several green-field outsourcing opportunities into highly successful and rewarding contracts that work for all involved.
Ian Steabler – General Manager NSW & ACT
Ian brings an accumulated 20 years of Corporate experience in the fields of Protective Services, Risk & Safety Management, Project Management and Security Management Planning as well as Advance Diploma qualification in Security Risk Management including Certification in Fraud Investigation.
More recently Ian headed up the Security Division of a National Integrated Service Provider. During this time Ian successfully introduced Integrated Security Solutions and Risk Management Strategies across a diverse range of Clients including Commercial Corporate, Retail, Warehousing and Distribution and Events.
Hailing from Sunderland in England's North East, Ian has served in both the British and Australian Military. Ian received specialist training, and has engaged in active service in both conventional and specialist operations.
Ian brings significant National and International Operational experience to the Group.
Arthur Mallios – General Manager VIC & TAS
Arthur Mallios has been in the cleaning industry since mid 2000 and has worked with some of the largest property service groups in Australia and globally. With experience in all facets of the cleaning industry, he has held various roles covering state and national business development, operations and general management of entire branch operations.
Working for major international service providers in the cleaning industry has given Arthur wide exposure and experience across many property service sectors, including commercial, retail, events, education, leisure, health, industrial, open space, national contracts and working with governments across all levels.
Arthur’s primary focus is expanding the Group’s market share in established markets, as well as developing business and service opportunities in new market segments.
Andrew Stephens – Chief Financial Officer
Andrew comes to the Group with strong backgrounds in Finance, Accounting, General Management, Information Technology and Commercial experience. He has worked with several multinational companies in varying financial and commercial leadership capacities. He has drawn his experience from several industries including Health, Transportation, Luxury Goods, Industrial Equipment Service, Electronics and Agriculture. He is a qualified Financial and Management Accountant and holds several professional memberships both local and international.
Andrew joined the company in December 2005 as Project Chief Financial Officer for Cleanevent International. He was based in Doha Qatar for the Doha 2006 Asian Games where his primary role was to start up the Qatar operations and prepare the organisation in Qatar commercially for games time.
Andrew headed back to Australia to a newly created role as Commercial Manager, CleanDomain, Australia. He has since been appointed CFO for Australia in Feb 08 with additional group responsibilities. Andrew has subsequently moved to a more regional focused CFO role. The CFO role today includes the provision of commercial and fiscal stewardship support to the regional Managing Director, development of the local finance team, system development and testing, internal and external stake holder management, profitability, efficiency, quality, customer satisfaction and compliance of venues and events including business processes improvement.
“Our customers of today are looking to better value their dollar spent. As an organisation, we are now in a better position to evaluate our customer needs and to ensure workable solutions that translate back into value adds for our customers”
Michael Robinson – General Manager Human Resources & Risk
Michael joined the CE property Services Group in August 2006, accepting a position heading up the organisation's human resource and recruitment functions in Australia.
Michael began his career in the leisure industry, his more recent roles being General Manager and Licensee for multiple sites in a prominent hotelier group. A Bachelor of Business graduate, Michael brings to the organisation 12 years operations knowledge in the events and leisure industry.
Since August 2006, Michael has developed the HR & Risk functions through the provision of sound engagement, development and retention strategies.
“Our employees are the interface between the ideals of the executive team and our customers and therefore a sound business case can be made for providing quality service to our employees in the same way a sound business case can be made for customer service. When employees and their work are valued, their satisfaction and productivity rises, and they are motivated to maintain or improve their good work and deliver service excellence to our customers.”