Services
You have a product leadership gap and can't wait to fill it permanently. Dave steps in at CPO or Head of Product level — stabilises the team, resolves the immediate issues, puts the right operating model in place, and sets up your permanent hire for success.
Things aren't working for the product team and you're not sure why. Dave assesses the existing setup and works with leadership to transform to a best-practice product operating model that puts the team in a real position to succeed.
Looking to acquire a product? Dave assesses product quality, its ability to acquire, retain and monetise customers, tech debt, and team strengths — so you know exactly what you're getting.
If your product team is stuck on a discovery or delivery challenge or struggling to adopt AI in a way that unlocks substantial customer value, Dave provides practical, hands-on coaching that builds capability and gets teams moving. For executives who need to sharpen their product leadership, Dave provides specific and practical advice.
About Dave
Dave is a product executive with 20 years of experience across Australian and international tech companies.
Most recently Dave was Chief Product Officer at Hireup, Australia's largest NDIS marketplace. He led product, design, and marketing through significant growth — scaling the disability business and expanding into aged care, whilst navigating the NDIS regulatory environment.
Before that Dave was Head of Product at ImmoScout24, Germany's leading property platform, based in Berlin. He led product, design, research, and marketing for the New Homes business during a period of double-digit growth. Dave also drove the rapid growth of ImmoScout24's mobile apps to market dominance across Germany.
Earlier in his career Dave led mobile product at REA Group during a fiercely competitive period with Domain. He started at Sensis as online directories were being dismantled by Google Maps — an early lesson in what happens when innovation disrupts markets.
Dave works primarily with mature and scale-up product companies in regulated industries, be it PropTech, HealthTech, Vertical SaaS and Marketplaces. He is based in Melbourne, and is available across Australia and remotely worldwide.
Skills
- Regulated industries
- Marketplaces
- PropTech and real estate platforms
- HealthTech and Disability/Aged Care platforms
- B2B SaaS and B2C products
- International expansion
- Scale-up growth (50–500 employees)
- Executive product leadership (CPO / HoP)
- Product strategy and vision
- Organisational design and team scaling
- Cross-functional leadership
- P&L accountability
- Operating model transformation
- Coaching
- Product discovery techniques
- Lean and agile delivery at scale
- Mobile growth and optimisation
- Product analytics and data
- AI/ML product applications
- Platform and marketplace dynamics
Contact
Get in touch for a free consultation.