Enough Experience to Know What Works
Chad leads the business. He didn't come from a software background — he came up through the operational side of fleet management, tyre technology, and heavy vehicle logistics across every state and territory. The kind of work where you learn what breaks and why, not just what the brochure promises.
When Geotab established its Australian operation, Chad was brought on as Vice President of Sales and Marketing — responsible for opening the Adelaide office, building the national reseller network, and establishing Geotab's market presence across the country. That role gave him a front-row seat to a pattern that kept repeating: operators investing in capable technology and getting poor results because of how it was implemented and supported after the sale.
Before Geotab, he co-founded Vanworks — a commercial vehicle fleet maintenance business in Adelaide, built from the ground up. Workshop, team, processes, all of it. They became known in the market by focusing on what actually mattered to fleet operators, not what was easiest to deliver. He went on to manage Teletrac Navman's SA/NT territory, run mobility solutions at Bridgestone Australia, and as General Manager at Airtec Corporation, led the effort to achieve TCA type approval for their SmartOBM on-board mass products.
Through Pollex Consulting, Chad and the team have built compliance tools for the BMA Alliance and Safer Together programs — purpose-built solutions that leverage Geotab's platform and partner ecosystem to help fleets maintain site access compliance. Pollex operates as a managed service provider for Geotab telematics and partner solutions, and the capabilities developed there feed directly into what Telematics Australia delivers.
That background matters because it means we understand the full stack — telematics, tyre management, on-board mass, compliance, and the daily reality of running vehicles in Australian conditions. But the business today is built on systems, partnerships, and tools that scale well beyond any one person's knowledge. When you work with Telematics Australia, you're backed by a methodology and a technology capability — not just a bloke who's been around the traps.
