Management Team
John O'Brien
John O'Brien is Managing Director of Whitesmiths Pty Ltd. He founded the company in 1986 and has guided Whitesmiths from its initial specialisation in developing and marketing integrated embedded system software development tools in the 1980s to establishing a software services division in 1989. John initiated Whitesmiths' involvement in the telecommunications industry in 1991 through the start-up of Optus. Today, Whitesmiths focuses on mission critical applications for the telecommunications industry and has implemented key solutions with telecoms carriers in Australia, Asia and Europe.
John was a founding member and President of the Australian Apple Programmers and Developers Association. He is President of the Penrith Rugby Union Club, a life member, and their longest active player. He has also held many senior administration positions in the Sydney Rugby Union, New South Wales Rugby Union and the Australian Rugby Union.
Carol Stammeijer
Carol is responsible for Sales and is the Commercial Director. She has held senior management positions with a number of major telecommunications companies. Prior to joining Whitesmiths she was Regional Sales Director for Openwave Systems Inc. with responsibility for growing the companyπs business in Australasia. She also worked for Hewlett-Packard, Singapore for 3 years, as a Regional Management Consultant in Customer Relationship Management.
Carol was part of the Cable & Wireless plc team that managed the start-up and launch of Optus in 1991. Carol was responsible for Optus Mobile customer service policy, standards and the management of the associated business systems solutions. This was later expanded to cover Sales and Marketing solutions for both mobile and wireline businesses. Prior to joining Cable & Wireless, Carol worked for Nokia OY and Hutchison Telecommunications in the UK. Carol has a BA Honours in English and Economics from Sussex University.
