The Connection Research Team
William Ehmcke
CEO
William Ehmcke is the CEO of Connection Research. Ehmcke is best known for founding IT market research company Meta Group in Asia Pacific. Meta Group was acquired by leading IT analysis group Gartner in 2004.
William joined Connection Research in February 2009 and together with founder and Research Director Graeme Philipson is taking the company into new areas as yet untouched by traditional market research in Australia, such as Green IT and research and analysis, and the carbon and compliance space.
"There's a gap in the market in the areas we are covering, and I believe we can make a mark," says Ehmcke. "Also, there's a lot of scope for research and analysis in these areas. There is also scope for research and analysis in the emerging carbon compliance area. We aim to be there".
Contact details:
Direct: +61 2 9467 9822
Mobile: 0411 861 445
Email: williame@connectionresearch.com.au
Graeme Philipson
Research Director
Graeme is founder of Connection Research. He has been in the IT industry for 30 years, most of that time as a technology market researcher and journalist. He is author of Connection Research's innovative Connected Home reports, and heads up the company's research activities in the digital technology, home automation, and the sustainable technology and electrical industries.
Graeme was a founder of Strategic Publishing Group (SPG), and founding editor of MIS magazine. He built SPG's research arm across Asia Pacific before its acquisition by Gartner, when he became Gartner's Asia Pacific Research Director.
Contact details:
Direct: +61 2 9467 9811
Mobile: 0418 609 397
Cassandra Phillips
Sustainability Portfolio Manager
Cassandra has been with Connection Research for over two years, and is responsible for the Sustainability Research Portfolio as well as the company's sales and marketing activities. This has involved the successful liaison with federal and state departments on key issues relating to sustainability and Australian consumer, household and business behaviour. She has developed an extensive knowledge base of energy, water and waste national behaviours and trends and successfully develops and manages the Connection Research Community Sustainability portfolio.
She has over 16 years experience in management, ICT, sales and business development, and was an ICT Manager for over 8 years. She was HWNS branch manager and national program director for over three years, which included responsibility for the HWNS Auto-Dialler campaign and the integration of over 400 auto-dialler personal computers and software into the HWNS telemarketing centres throughout Australia. She is also a member of the Residential Energy Management Forum (Copper Development Centre). Cassandra brings to her position of Sustainability Portfolio Manager with Connection Research a wealth of knowledge and a solid background in Sales, Marketing, ICT and Business Development.
Contact details:
Direct: +61 2 9467 9833
Mobile: 0405 350 806
Email: cassandrap@connectionresearch.com.au
Bhuvan Unhelkar
Senior Associate
Bhuvan
Unhelkar (BE, MDBA, MSc, PhD; FACS) has spent more than two decades as
a strategic as well as hands-on professional in the Information and
Communication Technologies (ICT) industry. As Founder and Consultant of
MethodScience.com he has notable practical consulting and training
expertise in business analysis, software engineering (modelling,
processes and quality), enterprise architecture (including SOA), green
IT and the environment, project management, collaborative web services
and mobile business.
His domain experience includes financial,
insurance, government, banking, retail, as well as telecommunication
organisations wherein he has created industry-specific service-oriented
architectures, process maps, transformation maps, quality strategies
and business transformation approaches. Bhuvan's hands-on experience
has lead to the creation of many seminars and industrial courses over
the past few years in the aforementioned areas, which have now been
delivered to business executives and IT professionals
globally. Training courses delivered through MethodScience have been
consistently ranked high and acclaimed by the participating
professionals from the industry.
Contact details:
Direct: +61 2 9467 9800
Mobile: 0413 821 454
Email: bhuvanu@connectionresearch.com.au
Camilla Kold-Christensen
Senior Associate
Also recently joining Connection Research is Camilla Kold-Christensen. Ms Kold-Cristensen has extensive marketing and research experience in her native Denmark, and is a marketing graduate from the University of Western Sydney.
Contact details:
Direct: +61 2 9467 9844
Mobile: 0412 971 622
Email: camillak@connectionresearch.com.au
Maximilian John Roger Philipson
Research Manager
Max recently graduated from Bond University in the
Gold Coast with a Bachelor of Communications, majoring in Media
Studies. Now living in Sydney, he plans to expand his knowledge of the Green IT industry
and continue developing his market research skills. He is playing an
integral part in Connection Research's new survey initiative Residential Energy Management 2010.
Direct: +61 2 9467 9800
Mobile: 0411 589 493
Email: maxp@connectionresearch.com.au
Fraser Shaw Morris
Market Researcher
Fraser, a recent graduate from Loughborough University in the UK, joins the Connection Research team looking to expand his skills into the Sustainability market. He is co-author of Connection Research's report Business Energy Consumption in Australia 2010.
Contact details:
Direct: +61 2 9467 9800
Mobile: 0415 731 232
Email: frasersm@connectionresearch.com.au
Walter Monitor
Mascot
Walter Monitor is our company mascot. He is very wise, and a source of great knowledge about all things sustainable and environmental.
Walter monitors the green landscape, and misses nothing. He is our inspiration and our mentor. He is of the species varanus salvator (water monitor) – found throughout South-East Asia and the Indian subcontinent, and at Connection Research.
Varanus salvator is a large species of monitor lizard capable of growing over 3 metres in length. Maximum weight can be over 75 kg, but most are half that size. Their body is muscular with a long powerful laterally compressed tail. Water monitors are one of the most common monitor lizards found in Asia. (Source: Wikipedia).
If you are in the green space, Walter is watching you. He knows. He sees. He monitors.
