Tasso Papachatgis
Best advice ever received:
“Good leadership stretches people and gets them out of their comfort zones and passionately engaged”
Chair Since: 2016
Current Non-Executive / Board positions
- Advisory to Australian Life Insurance (ALI)
- Advisory to Adpost Group of Companies
- Advisory board member to Virtunet Pty Ltd
- Advisory to Cardiac Responder
Experience
- Impactful leadership and experience across a wide range of industries
- Mergers & Acquisitions, Building workplace culture of diversity and accountability
- US, Aust Asia regions
- Growth, Change Management
- Innovation specialist, Strategic Alliances
- Harvard Business School and INSEAD Executive Education Programs
Former Positions
- GM – Sales and Marketing – GE Capital
- Former CEO – Australian Life Insurance
- Director Head of Macquarie Mortgages – Macquarie Bank
- Managing Director – Commercial Sales & Distribution – Berri Juices
- Director – Aust Asia Consulting Division – IMG
- Senior Sales & Marketing Management
roles – 10 years across the Coca-Cola Group - Retail Management and Advisor/Conversion – Woolworths Ltd
Tasso is an award-winning Sales and Marketing Director and CEO who has a passion for driving change initiatives focused on improving sustainable business financial performance and models. He has worked in senior executive management roles in various industries, including financial services, consulting, retail and FMCGs for over 30 years.
Tasso is renowned for his effective management of limited resources and reallocating them to improve the financial performance of a business.
Tasso has a proven methodical approach to influencing and delivering significant and sustainable innovative company and market growth charters with a strong track record and a personal profile that creates productive alliances and company engagement between internal and external stakeholder needs.
Currently running Zakata Consulting which he established in 2010, a boutique business consultancy that provides strategic advice to achieve sustainable growth, and that truly improves the financial performance of a business.
Tasso holds tertiary qualifications in Marketing and Management, including an MBA and a Masters of Marketing from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management.