Kane Hooper

Position history:

Jul 2024 - Current Chief Operating Officer

Oct 2022 - Jul 2024 Chief Executive Officer

Jun 2019 - Oct 2022 Chief Operating Officer

Apr 2016 - Jun 2019 Production Manager

reinteractive is a specialist Ruby on Rails, Generative AI and AWS consulting company.

During time at reiterative:

• Project managed 120+ software projects for companies including PwC, Australia Post, Westfield, Salesforce, NAB, Melbourne University, University of Sydney.
• Lead AI Engineer developing and training Generative AI models for customer projects.
• Directly managed 34 developers, 2 designers and 5 DevOps staff.
• Personally sold over $9 million in software development services.
• Achieved highest ever 12 month profit while CEO.

Position history:

Oct 2019 - current Lecturer MBA Global - Finance

Mar 2019 - Jul 2019 Lecturer Agile Project Management

Jun 2018 - Feb 2019 Course development Agile Project Management

Apr 2016 - Apr 2018 Course development Work Integrated Learning

During time at Deakin:

• Developed the first Australian University course on Agile Project Management.
• Received the highest Australian University award for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning for this course.

A fintech accounting and consulting firm, implemented automated bookeeping and accounting technology solutions to achieve increased efficiency for companies.

• Project Managed technical rollouts of automated accounting solutions for clients.
• Directly supervised teams of accountants and bookkeepers.
• Maintained quality control of monthly reconciliations and yearly tax returns.

While at Executive Success I worked as an Interim CEO for 4 turnarounds and consulted executives from 22 different companies.

Turnaround CEO positions:

National General Manager - Labourforce International

General Manager - Chris & Marie's Plant Farms

Group General Manager - Investors Direct Financial Group

General Manager - MTP Kitchens

CEO and Consulting results:

• Mortgage broker: Increased loans processed from $5 million to $18 million a month over 5 months.
• Retail: Increased sales by $3 million p.a. Over 200% on previous years sales.
• Investment Firm: Increased annual sales by $8 million (400%) and profits by $4 million (800%) over 12 months.

• Managed budget implementations, employee reviews, training, schedules, and contract negotiations.
• Contributed to the profitable sale of the company for the owner.