Blue Bear Head

✔️ Brand Strategy & Market Differentiation – Developed and executed growth strategies for direct-to-consumer brands, helping them establish strong market positions, increase customer engagement, and create lasting brand equity.
✔️ Technology & Market Expertise – Stay ahead of emerging trends, develop high-performance teams, and support clients in navigating competitive landscapes while securing record-breaking revenues.
✔️ AI-Driven Solutions & Automation – Designed and implemented AI-powered analytics, automated workflows, and data-driven marketing strategies to streamline operations, optimize acquisition and retention, and drive sustainable business growth.

Managing Director

Techstars

✔️Mentoring at the Sydney Accelerator for Techstars, where I guide and support entrepreneurs in scaling innovative tech solutions. 
✔️Focused on driving measurable growth and delivering impactful outcomes, I collaborate with founders to refine strategies, optimize execution, and accelerate product development. Leveraging my experience in the tech industry, I help teams navigate challenges and achieve operational excellence in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment.

Mentor

Sumerian Records

✔️Developed and launched an OTT platform with 200+ licensed films and short-form music videos, branded as Albumovies for Hit Parader's On Demand Video Streaming Services.  These cinematic epics premiere ahead of album releases on digital platforms, offering exclusive first looks to fans and generating revenue through transactional video on demand.
✔️Hit Parader's On Demand Video Streaming Services will be available on Multiple Platforms: Web, iOS, Android, Samsung Smart TVs, Roku, LG Smart TVs, and Amazon Fire TV as a free streaming service.

SVP | Video Streaming & Digital Partnerships

Amazon

✔️ Led Amazon’s Working Backwards innovation sessions for top APAC brands including Qantas and Optus—helping senior leaders translate customer insights into launch-ready ideas using Amazon’s signature framework.
✔️ Selected as the primary negotiator for high-stakes agreements with key stakeholders—aligning teams around a unified messaging strategy and optimizing the deployment of large-scale budgets.

Innovation Advisory Programs APAC

✔️Received the best possible performance reviews after spearheading the worldwide Launchpad Innovation Grants program that provided clients with new creative advertising/media initiatives.
✔️Selected to establish Private Label brands in Australia with a new exclusive local product line, all while offering internal consulting to other business development staff with similar efforts. as well as importing additional selections from overseas to drive operational scale with Amazon Basics.

Head of Marketing Business Development APJ

✔️Established a high-performing team that orchestrated strategic efforts, partnerships, and initiatives. Reworked onboarding to increase staff retention.
✔️Expanded the company's market presence, product and service presence, and overall revenues, ranking among the top of all leaders within the region.

Head of Sales and Business Development

✔️Grew revenue by 200%+ by hiring and overseeing a high-performing advertising sales team. Collaborated with HR to support the development of other teams companywide.
✔️Strengthened executive relationships through weekly reviews and voice-of-the-customer sessions, becoming the principal contact for the most complex advertising requirements.

Head of Search Advertising, Europe

✔️Secured key industry alliances and negotiated some of the largest deals in Europe as the primary stakeholder liaison, including partnerships with Axel Springer.
✔️Diverted $42M+ of advertising revenue from Google and Facebook (over objective) after initiating cost-saving marketing measures that incorporated modern marketing methodology.

Principal Business Development, Mobile Advertising Technology

Senior Account Executive, Video Games & Consumer Electronics

Fable Food Co

Investor

AMASS

Investor & Advisor

Surreal

Surreal aims to become the entertainment industry's go-to infrastructure.

Seed Investor

Zillow Group

West Coast Sales

LendingTree

Director of Sales

Global Technology Leader | Seasoned Startup & Board Advisor | Formerly at Amazon, Zillow, Lending Tree

💥 Most people chase tactics. I build leverage.

If you’re a founder, operator, or high-performer scaling in today’s AI-fueled market, you need more than playbooks. You need frameworks that hold under pressure.

🔹 12+ years inside Amazon
— Launched global brands on Prime Day
— Built Amazon Advertising ops across EMEA, APAC & NA
— Trained execs using the “Working Backwards” system Jeff Bezos built the company on

🎬 Then came streaming deals, rights, and launches at Sumerian Records
📈 Now I advise founders, execs, and teams ready to grow smarter (not louder)

🧠 Author of It’s All Trash Til It’s Cash — Amazon’s blueprint for builders who don’t want to fake it.

Let’s build bold. Let’s build better.

📩 DM me if you’re scaling a company, a career, or a new chapter.

Chadd SJ Ciccarelli

One of the projects I’ve been working on this year is The Oddi Poddi podcast with Adrian Oddi.

I've know Adrian for a few years now. What I love about this show is that it didn’t start as a “content strategy” or a brand exercise. Adrian just wanted to have real conversations about the stuff that actually matters to him: performance, health, family, resilience, money, setbacks, and what a good life really looks like when things don’t go to plan. 

Somehow that simple idea has cut through. In its first year, The Oddi Poddi  has landed in the top 5% of video podcasts on Spotify in Australia.  I’m lucky I’ve been able to play a small role behind the scenes with the team helping Adrian get there, but I’m genuinely proud of what he’s pulled off in such a short time.

We’ve also had some incredible guests along the way including Aidan Anderson, Barry Du Bois, Gabriella Pomare, to name a few.  Each guest brings their own take on how to think, show up, and put yourself back together when life knocks you flat.

If you’re trying to get your body and mind back in the game, rebuild after life’s clipped you at the knees, keep your family solid while you still swing big, or make sense of money and work without torching yourself, there’s an Oddi Poddi episode on Spotify that’ll help you see it differently and actually do something about it.

Former Amazon Exec | Global Sales & Partnership Leader | AI & GTM Strategy | Market & Branding Expansion Advisor | Author of “It’s All Trash ’Til It’s Cash”

ONErpm

Founded in 2010, ONErpm is a global music company with 26 offices and studios in 16 countries. Encompassing distribution, label solutions, content production, publishing, and an innovative marketing group that includes in-house advertising and influencer agencies, ONErpm has a proven track record of providing local and global support to artists and creators at any stage of their careers.

ONErpm’s proprietary technology offers creators and content owners alike a multitude of distribution/supply chain tools, business intelligence, accounting, and global payment solutions, facilitating day-to-day operations in an increasingly complex, global, and dynamic music business environment. With an eye toward maximizing the value of music, ONErpm is a leader in new revenue opportunities and operates one of the largest YouTube Multi-Channel Networks (MCN), whose channels collectively generate over 12 billion views every month.

Director of Business Development APAC

Akela Agency and Consulting

Akela Consulting offer comprehensive yet practical business solutions developed through an expansive background in commercial and entrepreneurial endeavours. Our consultants have extensive experience internationally across a broad range of industries including business affairs, retail and service industries, startups, legal, entertainment, and event management. 

Our aim is to implement best practices to streamline tailored solutions to strengthen business growth. We provide creative solutions to improve business planning and strategy, increase profit, scale streams of income, marketing automation, navigating local and federal government legislative requirements, and international industry practices. Boasting an expansive skillset and proven systems for success, our team have successfully built, developed, and exited numerous businesses across a myriad of industries.

Dinner For Wolves

Dinner For Wolves is an independent record label with key partnerships across distribution, publishing and retail services with a focus on delivering quality service to all label and artist partners. Recent artist releases include: The Screaming Jets, Reef, Electric mary, The Violent Hearts

Companies objective to is to provide opportunities to artists to provide strong management and label services.

Director

Ingrooves Music Group

Business Development and Label Services Consultant 

Responsible for all operational concerns for the companies Australasian and Sth East Asian division, including managing existing retailer relationships, exploring business development opportunities, forging new partnerships and handling label relations throughout the territory.

Signed and worked with EDM label OneLove, which had a global hit with Shouse’s “Love Tonight”; Common Folk Records (Ziggy Alberts); New Zealand reggae legends Katchafire, The Chats, The Screaming Jets, and more.

Ingrooves Music Group (UMG) is committed to powering creativity in today’s dynamic music marketplace by providing the best distribution, marketing and rights management tools and services to content creators and owners. We develop state-of-the-art, cost-efficient and scalable technology platforms, and our partners benefit from our experienced, knowledgeable people, our unparalleled commitment to label service and our progressive marketing solutions that drive results. We aspire to be the most transparent and solution-driven partner for all of the labels & artists we work with. We believe this approach helps us and our partners succeed today and for years to come.

Ingrooves was founded in 2002 with a mission to create the “digital record label of the future”. As one of the first independent distribution companies to partner with iTunes, the start-up began to build its retail network. In its early days, The San Francisco Business Times profiled the company and called INgrooves “a powerful growing force to decentralize the power base of the music industry”. Partnership by partnership, INgrooves has ultimately built a global retail network of over 600 services & storefronts.

Director, Sth East Asia / Australiasian Operations and Project Management

East Wednesday Pty Ltd

Whole Lotta Love (Lounge bar - Lygon St, Brunswick) - Business Sold in July 2016
http://www.wholelottalovebar.com/

East Brunswick Tattoo 
http://www.eastbrunswicktattoos.com/

Rick is the acting managing director of the company who's business focus includes:

- Staff direction and management
- Brand development, web site traffic growth and social media planning
- Accounts
- Business development

RB Promotions and Management

Entertainment and Athlete Project Management / Consulting

RB Promotions provide Licensing, Distribution, Publicity, Bookings, Sponsorship, Management & Event Planning Services for artists and athletes, venues, and special-event functions.

RB Promotions are available to consult on entertainment projects in regard to conception, logistics and successful planning.

Australian Tour Merchandise (ATM)

Consultant

Amphead Music / The Orchard

Digital distribution partner to the Orchard / Australian physical distribution

General Manager and shareholder of Amphead Music , Australia's largest marketer and
distributor of digital content in Australia/NZ, the Pacific and South East Asia, making up approximately
1/3 of Apple iTunes total content and also a leader in physical distribution, licensing, publishing and
international touring in the region.; the exclusive license holder of The Orchard, one the worlds leading digital content distributors for Australasia, The Pacific and South East Asia with a catalogue of 1.5 million songs and over 3,000 hours of video. The Orchard is represented in 29 countries and controls an unparalleled catalogue of music and digital marketing encompassing thousands of labels and every conceivable music genre and era. Dealing globally with over 250 Telecommunication Carriers and 150 major online retailers.

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