Reuben Brown

Chief Operating Officer @ Zenno Astronautics

About

A senior executive and leader with 20+ years’ experience across global financial service and deep-technology sectors.

Country

New Zealand

City

Auckland

Industry

Aviation & Aerospace

Skill

Analysis, Management, Project Management, Data Analysis, Report Writing, Business Strategy, Strategy, PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel

Experience

Chief Operating Officer

Zenno Astronautics

2021-2 - Present · 5 yrs 8 mos

• End to end actualization of company strategy • Stand-in CEO, as required

Strategic Projects Manager

University of Auckland

2014-12 - 2021-2 · 6 yrs 3 mos

Auckland

• Created and led the execution of the faculty’s strategic projects • Grew international customer base by 15%. • Co-founded Auckland Program for Space Systems and innovation and entrepreneurship hub (UnleashSpace) • Increased Māori and Pacific enrolments by 20% with new recruitment programmes

Strategy Contractor

Sole Trader

2013-11 - 2014-11 · 1 yr 1 mo

• $33M funding acquired from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment • $20M depreciation case successfully mediated • Developed strategic roadmaps for transforming research programmes

Project Manager

University of Auckland

2010-11 - 2013-11 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Auckland

• Created and led funding strategies for engineering groups • $2M in funding obtained across 25 projects • Increased international research income for the university by 15% over 3 years

Analyst Team Lead

Inland Revenue NZ

2009-4 - 2010-11 · 1 yr 8 mos

Auckland, New Zealand

• Led analyst team through 750 tax cases • $20M worth of ineligible tax credits negotiated • Evaluated business and technology operations of 50 IT, service and engineering companies

Project and laboratory manager

BASF

2003 - 2009-4 · 6 yrs

Mannheim Area, Germany

• Managed 40 new product development projects with over €2M in budgets • Introduction of technologies that saved over €1M per year • Organisation and management of lab and 4 staff