Tony Surtees - Director
- Tony was Yahoo!'s founding Vice President and General Manager of Yahoo!’s Commerce Group. The Commerce Groups global network of web based business units including Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! Store, Yahoo! Auctions, Yahoo! Classifieds, Yahoo! Small Business and Yahoo! Paydirect. Pursuing growth through new business development and acquisitions, Yahoo! became the world’s leading personal finance, shopping and classifieds portal sites.
- Following Yahoo, Tony was appointed to the role of CEO of emaimai.com, and transformed a US-owned Hong Kong-based Chinese language on-line auction site into an international mobile payment (m-commerce) service, utilizing existing assets and technology delivering a new digital verification service for wireless payments. To see an interview on CNBC click here. To see a description of emaimai's business click here.
- Tony has also been founder of two Australian based businesses. He is a past NSW State President
of the Australian Marketing Institute, is a regular professional and
guest public speaker in the US, Asia and Australia addressing numerous
investment and industry forums. To see Tony's public speakers profile
click
here.
- In 2003 SCG made a substantial investment in INSiTE.com.au.
- Tony holds a B.Comm from UNSW and a M.S. from the Graduate School
of Business, Stanford University. He is also an active committee member of Stanford Australia Alumni, a guest Lecturer for The Australian Film Radio and Television School, Laboratory of Advanced Media Production and an occasional speaker at Macquarie University Graduate School of Management.