Our People

Robert Day, Chairman and Founder – EMS

Robert’s early background is in Agriculture, graduating from Hawkesbury Agricultural College and then 15 years corporate experience with The Shell Company (Australia), managing a large retail rural division for 12 years and 2 years with Shell gas.

Prior to founding EMS, Robert owned and operated a recruitment company for 5 years, gaining great insight into the daily complexities of servicing and tracking clients and casual staff. During that time, Robert pursued his vision of developing a revolutionary system that would simplify the complex experience of engaging casual and contract staff from multiple agencies.

Robert also owned and operated a large horticultural farm in the Riverina area during which time he was:

  • Deputy Chairman Murrumbidgee River Management Board
  • Vice President Griffith Citrus Growers
  • Secretary Riverina Horticultural Council
  • Committee Griffith Golf Club
  • Government Adviser on Horticulture
  • Board of the IREC (Irrigation Research & Extension committee)

Tony Dixon, Director – EMS

Tony has more than 20 years experience in the real estate industry. His career has encompassed senior roles across all facets of real estate investment including development, asset & portfolio management, corporate advisory and most recently investment and funds management.

His experience has covered both listed and private equity real estate markets, with transaction experience across Australia, the United States, Europe and Japan for major real estate groups in Australia such as BT Funds Management, Leighton Holdings, Macquarie Bank, Investa Property Group and Dexus Property Group.

Most recently Tony was COO of New City Australia Funds Management, the Sydney subsidiary of a Japanese based private equity real estate investment group.

Ramana Mareddy, ICT Strategy and E-Commerce Manager

Ramana is specialised and well knowledged in E-commerce technologies, online marketing trends, and E-commerce securities.He has four years broad range of experience in E -procurement, supply chain management and online ordering a number of multinational corporations. His early background was a PHP programmer and web developer. Ramana’s valued input to EMS is to oversee and manage the strategy employed to create, implement and perform continuous enhancements on the core cloud portal.

His vast experience having worked with Melbourne Institute, Compass Group and Sutherland Global Services is complimented with a Bachelor of Computer Science and a Masters in Information Systems from the University of Ballarat.

Joe Perri, Marketing and Public Relations Consultant

Joe has over 25 years experience within the corporate environment. Joe provides communication, promotional and marketing relations solutions for clients in the corporate, SME and non-profit sectors that help them achieve their strategic business aspirations.

Joe Perri’s goal is to help clients more clearly define their overall communication objectives and then implement the most appropriate strategy to reach their target audience more effectively.

Every day, Joe Perri draws on his experience to enable clients to improve their business relationship, communication and brand / profile with customers, shareholders, distributors, the media and staff.