Speak to the Experts : Speak to Your Team

General Manager

Alan Edmond BEC

It is my great pleasure to be the General Manager of the SSBEC and to have a role in planning, overseeing, encouraging, directing, inspiring, participating in and promoting all we are, all we can be and all we have to offer at the SSBEC.

Having had extensive roles in commercial management, having run my own business and having consulted widely to businesses over the years, I am pleased to bring my qualifications and experience to a team with a “can do” attitude.

Senior Consultant Business Development

Ian Burton

As a Business Adviser my role is to help you analyse your business venture, whether you are in a conceptual stage or well established.  

I will work with you to ensure you understand your business, make informed decisions and also assist in identifying new markets.

From personal experience I know what it is like to establish and grow a business, so know first hand the hurdles you may encounter.

I have access to the Business Enterprise Centre Networks locally and nationally with international networks as an Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) accredited Business Counsellor.

Business Advising is only one of my roles as the Senior Business Development Consultant for the Southern Success Business Enterprise Centre. In this position I also have a role in supporting the Business Development of the region.

Having lived, worked and played in the Southern Region for 50 plus years I have a passion in seeing the region prosper. Being Chair of the Southern Adelaide Employment & Skills Formation Network and founder of the Southern Business Associations Alliance I am proactive in advocating for businesses to work together to ensure the voice of small business is heard.

Consultant Business Development

John Koutsikas

I am well known in the southern region through my working background and personal retail business in the area.

Over the last ten years I have become an experienced Business Advisor through working with small to medium sized businesses in the Adelaide Hills, Fleurieu Peninsula and now here in Onkaparinga.

I am very passionate about the creative and environmental industry, Food, ICT, retail, personal and professional services. I especially enjoy assisting young entrepreneurs grow their businesses.

Being an experienced facilitator and trainer, I am also able to help you look at business issues relating to your whole team environment.

I have formal qualifications in International Marketing Management, viticulture, aquaculture and tourism.

Please give me a call if you need information or advice on getting the most out of your business, whether it is a new venture or your existing business.

Business Services Consultant

Yvonne Baillie

I have two roles. I spend two days in organising events and co-ordinating workshops and cover many internal processes and procedures such as the website and managing volunteers and student placements. I spend my other two days giving basic business advice to intenders and people who have recently started a business.

I am working towards achieving APEC certification which will assist me as I take on a more active business advisory function. It is helpful that I set up and have run my business since 1993. At the moment the business is leased to another organisation.

Life experiences include: RAF, extensive travel for work contracts, nurse manager, researcher, trainer, carer, mother, grandmother, partner, board member of a state arts body and volunteer for a national organisation.

I enjoy learning and some formal qualifications include BA Lib, RMN, RNMH, Cert IV Training & Assessment, although it may be that communications is the most useful. Let me know how I can assist you.

Accounts / Administration

Anita Johnston

I started as a team member for the Southern Success Business Enterprise Centre in May 2004 and am now a permanent part time team member specialising in an Accounts/Administration role.

I enjoy the daily challenges that come with overseeing the internal operations of the SSBEC. I like to ensure things run smoothly. This involves tasks such as payroll, accounts payable and receivable as well as assisting with budgets and cash flow.

I also use my skill set for our family business which we established in 2001.

This year I have become a committee member for the Southern Women in Business. I am enjoying this role as it is a fantastic and fun way to meet other like minded business women in the southern region as well as helping establish new client contacts for my business.

Administration

Karen Young

My role enables me to be your first point of contact, giving initial information and making an appointment with a business adviser that can best meet your needs.

I am responsible for administration management within the organisation and also support business advisors’ ensuring the appropriate information is delivered to our clients

I love seeing people come in with business ideas, and as they visit time and time again, their idea becomes stronger and hopefully grows into a vibrant new business.

I have always been active in helping the community and am currently involved with the Country Fire Service, both locally and at a State level.

As a sole trader, I appreciate the role that we play for people who are establishing a new or ongoing business venture.

Currently I am undertaking Cert 4 in Business Management, to give me a firmer understanding of business requirements.