Allan Rodrigues

Composite_Allan.JPGManaging Director, 
The Business Farm Pty Ltd Melbourne, Australia.

Director, The Business Farm Ltd (New Zealand)

Director ARC Ltd, Director The Business Binnacle Ltd

Visiting adjunct Lecturer MBA & executive  programmes, New Zealand

Allan heads the 'large business' and Australian practice of The Business Farm which provides strategic, operational and financial planning and implementation support to large companies and large infrastructure projects, operating under risk and uncertainty. (see our Australian website: www.thebusinessfarm.com.au He has currently returned to  New Zealand and oversees the strategy operations/finance and valuation practice of the firm in Australia and New Zealand.


Allan migrated to New Zealand in 1995 where he has been a successful senior manager and professional management consultant, until he left to head the Australian practice of The Business Farm in November 2007. He specialises in strategic plans and business plans that align strategy, finance and investment-decision making under conditions of high risk and uncertainty, earnings valuations, contingent claim valuations, real options valuations, performance management, scorecards, destination statements, strategy mapping, joint ventures, exit strategies and succession planning.

Allan specialises in aligning strategy, operations and finance and in strategic investment-decision making under conditions of high risk and uncertainty. He also works on commercialising projects at the high end of finance including earnings valuations, valuations of licences warrants (contingent claim value), real options valuations, performance management, balanced scorecards, joint ventures, exit strategies and succession planning.

Allan has been a management advisor with a number of companies on the de-aggregation of supply/value chains, global optimisation contracts, cross docking and delay manufacturing operational strategies, and the in the management of uncertainty on the supply-value chain.

In the area of performance management, Allan has recently designed the fourth generation of Balanced Scorecards linking third generational Balanced Scorecards to the value of the company. The tool he has designed to facilitate this 4th generational change is called the 'The Business Compass', which is designed to measure performance, act as a 'value advisory service and map the footprint of the company on the environment and the community; a front runner in scorecard management.

Allan Rodrigues and Michael Saunders of Tenon Group Pty Ltd have jointly designed an IT Portfolio Value Management Model to manage the value and performance of IT investments in large companies. The model is called the "IT Binnacle' and consists of a diagnostic tool to assess the maturity level of organisations with large IT portfolios, an intervention cum improvement plan to improve maturity levels and a set of advanced financial valuation tools to value the IT portfolio.  

Allan’s early background includes a career as a senior naval officer in the Indian Navy. His experience includes the command at sea of three major warships, the training head of the Naval Academy, followed by senior management tenures as a General Manager/Vice President of IndusInd media, a national multi-system cable broadband operator in India (a wholly owned subsidiary of the multinational Hinduja Group)  

Achievements:

  • Review of the strategy for the development of a major port and freight hub in New Zealand
  • Start up General Manager of Indusind Media with a market penetration of three million homes
  • Real Options Valuation of the New Zealand national electricity grid;
  • Design of a ring fencing strategy for a  ‘Regional Petrol Tax’ for Auckland Region;
  • International bench marking assignment for a major bank for all classes of products and services in the personal banking sector;
  • Strategic planning and several repeat assignments on strategy and investment decision making for an international satellite services provider
  • Valuation of the worldwide market place for the satellite occasional-use carriage of news and sports for an international satellite services provider and an international broadcaster 

Major Qualifications:

  • Master of Science (University of Madras, Chennai, India) – awarded the Joseph Lentaigne medal for academic excellence;
  • Master of Business Administration (Elective Finance) Henley Management College, Oxfordshire U.K. (Overall A Grade)
  • Alumni of the National Defence Academy for officer cadets, Poona India, and the Defence Services staff College Wellington India

Previous positions:

  • Executive Director, The Business Farm New Zealand
  • Associate Dean. Head of the School of Graduate Studies, AIS St Helens, Auckland
  • Senior Manager (Strategy & Finance) New Zealand Institute of Economic Research
  • KPMG contractual and Independent Management consultant Strategy & Finance
  • Management Consultant _ Management Support Group 
  • GM and VP – Indusind Media & Communications (Hinduja Multinational Group)
  • Indian Navy, Retired Commander (cleared promotion to Captain)

Contact: Tel: +64 (9) 480 8972
Mobile: + 64 27 7007 444
Email: allan.rodrigues@thebusinessfarm.com.au

Email: allan.rodrigues@thebusinessfarm.co.nz