Our People 
Our growing team are led by our founding partners:
Dick Preiss
Margie Richards
Sammy Pinkus
Mark Bain
Matt Giddens
Dick Preiss, BSc
Dick has provided business system solutions for over 35 years. He has helped hundreds of past clients with financial, wholesale distribution and manufacturing solutions.
Dick's successes include:
- 8 years with another NAV supplier: he sold and nurtured their entire Navision NAV client base,
mainly in manufacturing and distribution systems
- Wang Australia: retail/wholesale timber and hardware systems, manufacturing and distributions systems
- BMC Software: mainframe utilities
Dick is our Sales Director.
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Margie Richards, BAppSc (Comp) CPIM
Margie Richards has over 30 years experience in the IT industry. For the last 10 years she has exclusively implemented and supported NAV. She is an accredited NAV Applications Specialist.
Her experience with ERP products included 30 years implementing and supporting a variety of Tier One and Tier Two products.
She has provided solutions for a variety of industries including:
- Travel
- Sporting footwear and clothing
- Food
- Steel fabrication
- Fabric
- Engineered foams
- Pharmaceuticals
- Agricultural equipment.
Margie is one of our Senior Applications Consultants.
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Sammy Pinkus, BAppSc (Comp) MACS, MCT
Sammy is one of Australia's longest serving and leading NAV implementers. Why else would Microsoft choose Sammy to train all new and existing NAV consultants in Australia? The training includes both technical and application aspects of NAV.
Sammy has over 21 years of IT experience. He is certified as both a NAV Applications Specialist and a NAV Developer Specialist. He has experience in industries such as travel, warehousing distribution, manufacturing, importers and "job-shops".
Sammy is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer.
Sammy is one of our Senior Applications Consultants.
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Mark Bain BBus (BIS) (Dist) CPIM MACS
Mark is recognized around the world as being a NAV expert. He has been a member of a number of national steering committees involving NAV implementations and is a former director of a Tier Two Chartered Accounting firm.
Mark's successes include:
- Project management and implementation of Australasia's first NAV e-commerce solution. This work received an award from Microsoft for the best NAV implementation of 2002 and received press coverage for innovative use of IT in BRW and The Australian newspaper.
- Rescue of a 125-user NAV distribution and manufacturing implementation that was in danger of failure.
- Project management of a number of Australia's largest rollouts of NAV for companies with multiple sites both in Australia and around the world.
Mark is our Director of Operations.
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Matt Giddens BBus (Acc) ACM, AIMM
Matt uses his unique client perspective to project manage and to perform business analysis and consulting for a diverse range of NAV clients. He has implemented NAV as a client and now brings that perspective to AES.
His has had roles such as Financial Analyst and Group Operations Manager for companies including:
- Kodak
- Johnson and Johnson
- Swedish Match, where the implementation of Navision NAV was unique in the Australian market
- SMS Management and Technology
He has been involved with clients in industries diverse as:
- Fast moving consumer goods
- Steel fabrication
- Greenlife
- Bulk liquid storage
- Travel
- Discrete manufacturing
- Textile/Footwear/Clothing
- Importation and wholesale distribution
Matt is our Director of Client Services.
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