Marcus Callon.

Chief Customer & Product Officer - XPON Technologies Group (ASX:XPN)

Executive leadership of customer, product and commercial strategy for a next-generation customer-experience and data-platform business.

• Owns the product roadmap and commercialisation for the Wondaris customer-data platform.
• Connects customer insight, product direction and commercial outcomes across the listed entity.

Chief Product Officer - XPON Platforms - XPON Technologies Group (ASX:XPN)

Product leadership across the group's two growth products - the Wondaris customer-data platform and the Holoscribe digital-publishing platform.

• Built and led the product function from the ground up across Wondaris and Holoscribe.
• Drove product through the company's ASX listing and commercial scale-up phase.

Chief Operations & People Officer - XPON Digital - XPON Technologies Group (ASX:XPN)

Led operations and people for XPON Digital, the group's UK-based software solutions and consultancy division, with a distributed team across the UK and Vietnam.

• Owned gross margin and most operating expense outside of sales on the P&L.
• Built the operating model from sales through delivery to support, underpinned by a tribe, chapter, squad model and shared culture of excellence.

Co-founder & Chief Product Officer - Focal Labs

Co-founded a service-based startup enabler supporting MVP development and commercial momentum for early-stage concepts.

• Held the founding product remit across the Focal Labs ventures (Shorthand, Immersive, Holoscribe).
• Owned concept-to-MVP-to-launch and commercial validation for portfolio ventures.

Co-founder & Chief Product Officer - Holoscribe

Co-founded an early-stage digital-publishing and immersive-reality venture from concept through seed funding. Exit 2020 - acquired by XPON Group.

• Led product, people and innovation across venture-building.
• Took the venture from concept through seed funding to acquisition.

Strategy, Innovation & Transformation Advisor - 4impact

• Member of the transformation working group. Defined and led a progressive growth and turnaround strategy.
• Supported validation and growth of new businesses within the group.
• Operating-model redesign with empathy, not cost-cutting.

Acting Chief Financial Officer - 4impact

• Stepped into a cashflow-challenged, superficially profitable business.
• Rebuilt finance operations as part of the value stream - a CFO/COO hybrid, not a separate back-office.
• Restored cashflow visibility and operating discipline.

Engagement Project Manager - Earthquake Commission (EQC, NZ) via 4impact

Led the client stakeholder engagement for an end-to-end claims management system for New Zealand's Earthquake Commission.

• Worked with the CIO and Executive General Managers on the claims function; partnered with central NZ government IT.
• Managed a delivery team across New Zealand, Australia and Manila over an 18 month engagement.
• Engagement won via competitive tender.

Co-founder & Product Lead - Shorthand

Co-founded, built the team and led product for an enterprise digital-publishing platform taken from concept to international commercialisation.

• Clients: BBC, Guardian, ESPN, The Times, Financial Times, Hearst and Trinity Mirror across the UK, Europe, Australia and the US.

Co-founder & Product Lead - Immersive (later Shorthand Social)

Co-founded and launched an innovative publishing platform for journalists and freelance storytellers.

• Took the concept from MVP to beta launch in under six months; 1000+ users and 500+ stories in the first six weeks.
• Rebranded as Shorthand Social.