Headquarters:
Level 6/697 Burke Rd, Camberwell, VIC 3124
Year founded:
1995
Number of employees:
150
Phone:
1300 433 982
Email:
help@campion.com.au
Website:
campion.com.au
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/company/campion-education
“We put our customers at the centre of our business, responding to brokers in a proactive and timely manner and working with the customer to understand their unique risk profile and tailor appropriate solutions”
Erica Kofie, QBE
James Cathro
Managing Director
Carlo Ruiz-Matthyssen
General Manager, Sales, eLearning, and IT
Ruth Richardson-Clark
Chief Financial Officer
Leadership
James Cathro oversees the entire Campion Group. He’s been the managing director for more years than he likes to remember and has driven growth to create a complex and innovative organisation that operates across education, books and technology while keeping a strong and consistent focus on the needs of students and schools.
Managing Director
James Cathro
Carlo Ruiz-Matthyssen has over 35 years of experience delivering key business risk, technology, and sales strategy and transformation using complex data, analytics and software. He spearheads Campion’s sales, eLearning and IT direction and is the owner of Campion’s digital ecosystem, including the groundbreaking MyConnect2 platform.
General Manager, Sales, eLearning, and IT
Carlo Ruiz-Matthyssen
Ruth Richardson-Clark cares deeply about creating sustainable value for stakeholders and forming environments where people are empowered to innovate, collaborate and deliver great outcomes for themselves, the business and stakeholders. She brings over 20 years of senior experience from across industries to lead the finance team at Campion. She is a chartered accountant and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Chief Financial Officer
Ruth Richardson-Clark
“We put our customers at the centre of our business, responding to brokers in a proactive and timely manner and working with the customer to understand their unique risk profile and tailor appropriate solutions”
Erica Kofie, QBE
“We continue to see cyber as a key opportunity and will be further developing customer-centric solutions across various geographies and segments in line with our growth aspirations”
Erica Kofie, QBE
Leadership
“We continue to see cyber as a key opportunity and will be further developing customer-centric solutions across various geographies and segments in line with our growth aspirations”
Erica Kofie, QBE
“We put our customers at the centre of our business, responding to brokers in a proactive and timely manner and working with the customer to understand their unique risk profile and tailor appropriate solutions”
Erica Kofie, QBE
Leadership
Robert Morley
General Manager, Operations
With 20 years of experience in senior roles across a variety of industries, Robert Morley leads Campion’s excellent operations team and is responsible for the end-to-end supply chain and health and safety for the business. Over an intense eight weeks in the summer, his team ensures many hundreds of thousands of student parcels are delivered out of Campion’s 15 warehouses in time to have Australia’s children supplied for the start of the school year.
General Manager, Operations
Robert Morley
Susannah Bowen
General Manager, Marketing
Susannah Bowen’s marketing experience crosses books, education and technology. She is passionate about understanding brands and customer needs, creating amazing communications and using data for continual improvement. In addition to leading marketing at Campion, she is an industry associate in publishing and communications at the University of Melbourne and co-author of three books, including How to Market Books, sixth edition.
General Manager, Marketing
Susannah Bowen
Campion Education is proudly family-owned and is the largest supplier of education materials, including print, digital and stationery resources, in Australia. It works with close to 3,000 schools in Australia, getting more than 600,000 students ready for school each year through a matrix of operations including home delivery, digital provisioning and 15 retail stores.
Clients and other businesses find Campion has a laser-like focus on what’s best for school communities, whether that be staff, teachers, parents or students. Service is the firm’s overriding priority, and its internal culture is centred on whatever is necessary to make things run smoothly, whether that be visiting a school, dropping off a sample or spending hours untangling a problem.
Illustrating how engrained this proactive attitude is, national sales manager Rob Moschetti explains, “We’re dedicated education specialists, so we understand what schools need at every point in time. Right through our organisation we service schools – even the managing director manages a number of school accounts. That means there is a breadth of knowledge right across our organisation and expertise in working with schools, from the principals and heads of teaching and learning, the business managers, the teachers and heads of department and the front office staff. We do whatever is needed to make it happen for the schools we serve.”
This key time in Campion’s year is aided by onboarding 1,500 casual staff all across Australia, which enables the business at its peak to pack 10,000 orders daily. The depth of experience in schools is seen in the longevity of Campion’s team. Managing director James Cathro assumed his role 25 years ago.
Despite its rich heritage, Campion has innovated and added a powerful digital platform to its offerings. MyConnect2 software brings together all the digital resources and e-textbooks students and teachers need with seamless access, secure data transfer and fantastic learning and accessibility features. It is the leading digital eBook platform in Australia.
Continuing their desire to keep innovating, ongoing development is in the area of new accessibility tools. MyConnect2 includes functions such as Immersive Reader, which help support students who have learning challenges such as dyslexia or where English is their second language. Continual investment in the platform to remain the leader in edtech for Australian schools will see enhancements to tools for school staff such as self-reporting and systems integration and continual improvement in security. However, that doesn’t mean Campion is wavering in its core commitment.
Moschetti says, “We have the experience to understand what’s important to schools – having students ready to go on day 1. We support hundreds of thousands of families each year and help schools deliver the best learning outcomes for students across Australia, and we are proud of the role we play in the education of Australia’s children.”
“We continue to see cyber as a key opportunity and will be further developing customer-centric solutions across various geographies and segments in line with our growth aspirations”
Erica Kofie, QBE
Rob Moschetti
National Sales Manager
Keith Schlosser
Global Chief Information Officer
Dan Draper
Group Chief Underwriting Officer
Simon Williams
Chief Strategy & Distribution Officer, Arch Insurance International
and Active Underwriter, Syndicate 1955
Kylie Quinlivan is general counsel and company secretary of hipages Group and a member of the executive team. This is her second role as general counsel of an ASX-listed company. Quinlivan is a top-tier trained corporate lawyer with over 17 years of experience in public and private M&A/transactional work, fundraising, and corporate governance. She is commercially oriented, curious, and with a demonstrated ability to understand complex matters quickly and communicate simply. Quinlivan is excited by hipages’ growth potential, its entrepreneurial spirit and conviction for creating a unique culture. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce/Laws (Honours) and a Master of Laws from the University of Sydney.
General Counsel and Company Secretary
Kylie Quinlivan
Keith Schlosser is global chief information officer at AXIS Capital, where he leads the company’s global information technology and data strategy. He is also responsible for driving change throughout the organisation by delivering high-quality, future-oriented IT services in line with AXIS Capital’s business strategy. Schlosser has more than 30 years of insurance industry experience, spanning roles in information technology, business solutions, marketing and sales. Prior to AXIS, he served as chief information officer for Chubb’s Overseas General Insurance division, where he spearheaded a number of growth, innovation, digital and change initiatives. Before that, he served as CIO at The Travelers Companies international division. Schlosser was also a vice president for marketing technology and web communications at AIG.
Global Chief Information Officer
Keith Schlosser
Dan Draper was appointed group chief underwriting officer in September 2022. He had previously served for more than two years as group head of underwriting at AXIS. Prior to that, he had been group chief risk and actuarial officer at VIBE. Before joining VIBE, Draper spent eight years with AXIS, holding a number of leadership roles that included group chief actuary, chief risk analytics officer, and insurance segment chief risk officer. Before that, he held managerial positions at the Financial Services Authority, XL Capital, and EY.
Group Chief Underwriting Officer
Dan Draper
Kimi leads the Estate Planning and Wealth Protection team and is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. She understands the complex and delicate nature of family estate planning, the technical requirements around probate and estate administration, and the importance of preserving wealth for future generations. Her advice is accurate, commercial, strategic and tailored to each situation.
Partner
Kimi Shah
Kimi leads the Estate Planning and Wealth Protection team and is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. She understands the complex and delicate nature of family estate planning, the technical requirements around probate and estate administration, and the importance of preserving wealth for future generations. Her advice is accurate, commercial, strategic and tailored to each situation.
Partner
Kimi Shah
Kimi leads the Estate Planning and Wealth Protection team and is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. She understands the complex and delicate nature of family estate planning, the technical requirements around probate and estate administration, and the importance of preserving wealth for future generations. Her advice is accurate, commercial, strategic and tailored to each situation.
Partner
Kimi Shah
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