The Strategy Group

Dr Jeffrey Tobias – Managing Director

Jeffrey Tobias’ career in the application of information technology has spanned the worlds of academia, big and small business, government and research. In each environment his leadership, clarity of thought, creativity and drive have generated cutting edge advances and successes far beyond expectation. His broad and deep experience and extraordinarily wide skill set are almost certainly unique within the region.
Dr Tobias is an accomplished strategist, with years of commercial and business experience. He is a respected team leader and manager, with a history of motivating and leading teams in many and varied disciplines. One of his many strengths is his ability to communicate with people at all levels.
During his career, Dr Tobias has incubated and grown a medium size business to $100m in revenue, participated in public service policy formulation, led the Smart Internet Technology CRC as CEO, both sought venture funding and managed funds, built vertical markets in the healthcare and retail spaces, and used his entrepreneurial skills to start, grow and successfully sell a number of commercial operations.
His most recent role was leading the global Innovations Practice for IBSG, Cisco Inc’s executive consulting arm. This practice worked with some of Cisco’s strategic global customers to assist them in accelerating their innovation capability worldwide.
Dr Tobias is adjunct faculty at the Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales, and at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Dr Jeffrey Tobias – Managing Director

Jeffrey Tobias’ career in the application of information technology has spanned the worlds of academia, big and small business, government and research. In each environment his leadership, clarity of thought, creativity and drive have generated cutting edge advances and successes far beyond expectation. His broad and deep experience and extraordinarily wide skill set are almost certainly unique within the region.
Dr Tobias is an accomplished strategist, with years of commercial and business experience. He is a respected team leader and manager, with a history of motivating and leading teams in many and varied disciplines. One of his many strengths is his ability to communicate with people at all levels.
During his career, Dr Tobias has incubated and grown a medium size business to $100m in revenue, participated in public service policy formulation, led the Smart Internet Technology CRC as CEO, both sought venture funding and managed funds, built vertical markets in the healthcare and retail spaces, and used his entrepreneurial skills to start, grow and successfully sell a number of commercial operations.
His most recent role was leading the global Innovations Practice for IBSG, Cisco Inc’s executive consulting arm. This practice worked with some of Cisco’s strategic global customers to assist them in accelerating their innovation capability worldwide.
Dr Tobias is adjunct faculty at the Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales, and at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Sydney, Australia.