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Mooloolaba QLD 4557

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Hands On Consulting

Infotech director Mike Vanderkelen has more than 30 years experience as a marketing and communications consultant, writer and journalist specialising in business to business communications.

He has consulted to clients in a broad range of industries including information technology and communications, building products and services, manufacturing, hospitality and tourism.

Mike has specialised in the information technology and communications industries. His hands-on consulting skills ensure he remains conversant with the key industry, technology and human issues determining the evolution of the IT&C industry. He formed one of the industry’s first marketing and communications consultancies in Sydney in 1978. Based in Queensland since 1995 he consults to clients in national and international markets.

Those clients include developers and vendors of hardware, software and consulting services in such industries as: manufacturing, telecommunications, ERP, Internet technology, knowledge management, security, electronic commerce, GIS, systems and ancillary equipment.

Having graduated as Bachelor of Arts from Melbourne University and later undertaking post-graduate studies in both journalism and data processing, Mike began his career in IT&C when he joined the editorial team and helped launch Pacific Computer Weekly in 1971. PCW was the first newspaper to service the computer industry in Australia and New Zealand.

Mike has been actively involved in supporting the development and public acceptance of the public relations and marketing communications profession through his membership of the Public Relations Institute of Australia of which he remains a member. Until his relocation to Queensland he was an active member of the PRIA’s Registered Consultancies Group, a body whose charter is to elevate the use and acceptance of public relations.

Mike has addressed numerous business forums on marketing and communications. He has also co-authored and presented a course on dealing with the media in an emergency for the petroleum and mining industries.

He holds a commission in the Australian Army. His interests include food and wine, art and architecture, reading and furniture restoration.