Roland Butcher BA
CTO, Managing Director and Founder
Roland Butcher graduated with a degree in graphic design in 1984 from Curtin University. He is the Founder of Live and has been a Director since the company was formed in April 1996. He has over 20 years experience as a director of photography, working closely with highly qualified stills photographers. This first hand experience with professional photography and methodologies and equipment enabled Roland to appreciate the problems faced by photographers in acquiring publishing quality imagery. This understanding of a huge unmet need in the market led to the realisation of the LiveLens technology. Roland has operated his own communications design consultancy since 1991, producing world class design communications collateral for leading Western Australian businesses. His many achievements have earned him recognition as one of Australia's leading design consultants.
Roger Plumb MSc MA
COO and Director
Roger Plumb has a Masters in Management from London Business School that covered all aspects of financial management. He has over 20 years of business experience and a successful track record in commercialising technology. He has the capabilities to manage the marketing and financial aspects of the project including identifying target markets and developing strategic marketing alliances, financial management and organisational development. Roger Plumb has successfully commercialised new technology, most notably a low-pressure liquid chromatography technique from the Institute of Child Health in London. This was developed by Drew Scientific into a laboratory instrument for diabetic blood testing and was sold worldwide. Roger was a board member of Drew Scientific. The company achieved a full London stockmarket listing in 1993, valued at approximately AUD 70 million. More recently Roger worked as an investment director at PricewaterhouseCoopers Venture Partners, which invested in and helped commercialise early stage technology businesses. One of his investments, Research Now, listed on the London Aim market in August 2005 valued at approximately AUD 45 million. Roger Plumb has a background in IT and managed IT development projects for a number of years at IBM, ICL and Drew Scientific. More recently as a management consultant his work has been exclusively project related, almost always to a fixed price contract, so he has had to project manage the delivery of services to meet client expectations within budget.
Professor Steve Hannah BSc, MBA, FIEE, CEng,FIE(Aust), CPEng, PE
Executive Director
Professor Steve Hannah is a highly qualified executive with over 25 years of international experience in real-time control systems, electronics, IT and communications with an extensive track record in management, business development and engineering. He holds a degree in electronic engineering from the University of Hull (UK) and achieved an MBA from the University of Nottingham (UK), through studies there and at the University of Pittsburgh (US). Steve Hannah's professional positions have included Design Engineer and Director for Television Installation Services Limited (UK); President, Transmitton Inc. (US); Director of Sales and Marketing for Transmitton Ltd. (UK); Managing Director of Unidata International Ltd.; and General Manager of Honeywell Pacific. Steve is currently General Manager of Calibre Controls Pty Ltd., a large engineering consultancy, based in Perth. He has extensive business development experience in Europe, the Americas and across the Asia- Pacific region. Steve has negotiated significant contracts in such diverse commercial environments as the USA, India, Chile, China, Singapore, Indonesia and others. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, UK (FIEE), Fellow of Engineers Australia (past Vice President) and is a Registered Professional Engineer in the UK, US and Australia.