Wayne Gerard
Co-founder and CEO
RedEye
Wayne Gerard is the co-founder and CEO of
RedEye, an Australian technology company founded in 2012 to help large complex asset owners and critical infrastructure operators improve asset safety and performance.
Today
RedEye has 6 offices globally and helps organisations in power, water, mining, healthcare, infrastructure and government manage over $250bn of complex assets and critical infrastructure.
RedEye has two purpose cloud and mobile based solutions RedEyeDMS their Asset Data Management Platform and RedEyeWFM their Work Management Platform.
RedEye’s solutions complement and integrate with client’s ERP, EAM and other core business systems. All clients have solutions like SAP, Maximo, Ellipse, Infor, Oracle, and SharePoint, they adopt RedEye to make their asset data available, usable and valuable.
RedEye’s team and partners have developed deep domain and subject matter expertise delivering numerous asset data management projects across the world’s most complex and critical assets.
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1. Most rewarding part about your job?
Being a founder and growing a company from an idea into a global tech company that solves an import problem is really cool. The most rewarding part of my role is being able to create jobs, we’ve employed 38 people direct from university giving them their first jobs, we’ve helped people from more traditional industries translate their skills and find exciting new careers in the tech sector, we employ just under 100 people across six offices globally, its nice to know where making a difference.
2. Who do you most admire?
I admire people who put other first. We’ve seen so many examples of this kind of selflessness this year, the first responders during the Christmas fires in Australia, the front line workers during COVID-19, people, my own team who jump out of bed to help a client solve a problem in the middle of the night. It’s one of the reasons our first value at RedEye is "I’ve got your back"
3. Something that your social media followers don’t know about you?
I’m an introvert, I love my personal time; running, hiking, motorbike riding and snowboarding are perfect forms of meditation for me.
4. Proudest moment so far?
I love getting great feedback from our clients, it makes me really proud to know we’re making a difference. The only thing better than that, is watching our team grow and develop, it always brings a huge smile to my face when I see a young project manager, software engineer or account manager complete a task or deliver a project that they didn’t think they had the ability to do.
5. Best advice you ever received?
“Don’t give up” as an entrepreneur and founder, you’ve got to have tenacity and determination, growing a business is really hard, you are often stepping from one challenge to the next, remaining positive, remembering why we started RedEye
and the focusing on the people and organisations we’re serving gives me the energy to keep pushing on when things are hard.