Zezan Tam
Executive Leadership Coach at Zezan Tam Coaching
Zezan Tam
Executive Leadership Coach at Zezan Tam Coaching
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Executive Leadership Coach
2022 - Current
I’m an executive leadership coach. I work with people who want to play and win at their whole life, beyond just work. I help them enjoy the life of their wildest dreams, a life of freedom, empowerment, growth and joy amongst the twists and turns of life. If there is any part of you that is feeling like something is missing, or wanting something more out of life, let's talk! ztcoaching.com
Principal
2022
Independent consulting in strategy, operational and management execution excellence, strategic due diligence, product management, leadership, startups, growth. My clients have spanned large ASX50 corporates, fund managers, and private companies including startups and scaleups.
Fellow / Investor
2021
AfterWork Ventures is a community-powered VC fund that invests in pre-seed and seed stage startups in Australia and New Zealand. afterwork.vc
VP Strategy
2020 - 2022
Relectrify supplies advanced battery management and inverter solutions, which increase the lifetime and reduce the cost of battery storage for homes, industry, the grid, and beyond. Suitable for both second-life and new batteries, Relectrify's technology is the subject of an extensive patent portfolio, has been successfully demonstrated in a wide range of applications including with American Electric Power, Nissan US, 4R Energy Japan, Counties Energy New Zealand and VW Group Germany, and is seeing uptake across numerous product categories. As VP Strategy, I worked with the executive team to execute Relectrify's strategic goals, including strategic partnerships, business development and corporate fundraising. I drove Relectrify's multimillion Series A fundraising from US, Japanese and South Korean venture capital funds.
Chief Operating Officer
2019 - 2019
Luggage designed in Melbourne, and made for everyone. As COO, I worked closely with the founders to hyper-scale the business into a global travel brand, including executing a A$10.5m combined debt and equity funding round.
Accelerator Program Coach
2019 - 2019
Providing coaching and advice to the inaugural cohort of early stage companies in Skalata Ventures’ Seed Investment Program
Advisor to the CEO
2018 - 2019
I continued to advise the CEO on matters of strategy and setting up his team to execute on that strategy, in particular helping him with hiring the right talent. This advisory capacity ended with the successful hiring of a new COO and CTO.
Head of Strategy
2018 - 2018
I joined Fulfilio on a contract basis to help the CEO define and execute their strategy. Broadly speaking, this involved defining the strategy of the business, translating that strategy into clear objectives, matching those objectives and underlying metrics to Senior Leadership Team (SLT) members, and setting up tools and processes to hold those SLT members to account towards those objectives. Along the way, I helped the CEO restructure the SLT to better execute on those objectives, as well as actively 'dove in' to assist SLT members to achieve their objectives.
Product Manager
2016 - 2017
I joined Redbubble in 2014 when it was an A$60m turnover business, and was a part of the extended leadership team in various roles across Strategy, Product and Growth that led it through IPO and beyond, leaving it as a ASX-listed A$300m business with continued strong growth. In mid-2020, Redbubble passed the $1bn market capitalisation milestone. PM Global Acquisition - 2017 PM of our growth and acquisition focused team, with a focus around Organic Search acquisition, Paid Performance marketing at scale, and international market growth. PM Artist Services - 2016 PM of our Artist Services team, with a focus on the health and growth of the artist side of the Redbubble marketplace.
Director of Business Development
2015 - 2015
As Director of Business Development, I led the formation of a new business line for Redbubble in licensed artworks.
Chief Of Staff
2014 - 2014
I was Chief of Staff, working directly with then COO and future CEO Barry Newstead, to organise and scale the leadership team for the next phase of growth.
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer
2013 - 2016
Co-founded and running the business aspects of PPT Productivity, a PowerPoint software plug-in developed by ex-top tier strategy consultants for strategy professionals to turbocharge their presentations. In October 2016, I sold my stake in the business to my co-founder and stepped back from the day-to-day operations of the business.
Associate
2011 - 2013
Worked across grocery retail, mining, construction, financial services and government clients, in the areas of supply chain cost out, negotiations, category performance analytics, category management, HR, budgeting, and forecasting. Worked in various Australian cities as well as in Copenhagen, Denmark.