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Team

| Meet the brilliant minds driving innovation and success at our companies.

Alex Tao

Chief Executive Officer

Alex has over 30 years’ experience in business development, infrastructure project management, engineering, and global supply chains. Through Ausinland, which he founded in 2016, Alex is applying his expertise and passion for trade facilitation to international companies looking to expand their markets in Australia and China. 
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Aston Marks

Director Ausinland

A passionate visionary, Aston Marks brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise that will provide your business with a competitive edge.  
Having worked in a manufacturing environment since a young age, he can share extensive experience in providing your organisation with a design and manufacturing service that is world class, and at a competitive price.
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Jeff Simpson

Chief Financial Officer 

Jeff has highly valued experience in a wide range of industries and professions gained from a career spanning several decades. He brings to Ausinland the vast knowledge accumulated from his involvement in the chartered accountancy and internal audit professions and senior financial and operational executive roles in businesses associated with the infrastructure, insurance, renewables and agriculture sectors.  
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Nathan Everett

CEO Collaborative Distribution Networks

Specialising in operational excellence, process improvement, strategy, execution and distribution expansion. Deep knowledge gained in Capital Equipment Industries through 27 years of experience.
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David Li

CEO Hunan Huikai Machinery and Electrical Equipment Co. Ltd

With over three decades of experience, David has made significant contributions in various industries, including mechanical and electrical manufacturing, tunnel support, highway slope protection and medical devices.
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Alex Tao

Chief Executive Officer

Alex has over 30 years’ experience in business development, infrastructure project management, engineering and global supply chains. Through Ausinland, which he founded in 2016, Alex is applying his expertise and passion for trade facilitation to international companies looking to expand their markets in Australia and China. 

Alex is particularly skilled at opening up new distribution channels, identifying business development opportunities and providing supply chain solutions to optimise outcomes for all stakeholders. His involvement in numerous major infrastructure projects across the globe has provided him with a wealth of experience covering market development, engineering, manufacturing, construction, transportation, planning, and risk management.

Alex is applying these skills by partnering with the industry and leading global companies such as CRCHI, the world’s leading tunnel boring machine company, to provide tunnel boring, drill and blast equipment, rail systems technologies and agricultural equipment into the Australia and New Zealand markets.

Alex has degrees in mechanical engineering and economics. He is a member of the Australian Tunnelling Society and the Australasian Society for Trenchless Technologies. He has held various executive and project leadership roles in companies that have operated in China, Africa and Australia. 

Aston Marks

Director Ausinland

A passionate visionary, Aston Marks brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise that will provide your business with a competitive edge.  
Having worked in a manufacturing environment since a young age, he can share extensive experience in providing your organisation with a design and manufacturing service that is world class, and at a competitive price.
He is a strong advocate for implementing the Lean Management approach of running an organisation. This supports the concept of continuous improvement and an ongoing effort to improve products, services and processes.

Jeff Simpson

Chief Financial Officer 

Jeff has highly valued experience in a wide range of industries and professions gained from a career spanning several decades. He brings to Ausinland the vast knowledge accumulated from his involvement in the chartered accountancy and internal audit professions and senior financial and operational executive roles in businesses associated with the infrastructure, insurance, renewables and agriculture sectors. 

Jeff is passionate about good governance and applies his unique set of business skills to businesses at strategic, financial, commercial, business development, operational efficiency and social outcome level.

Jeff is strongly committed to a collaborative approach as he sees best outcomes being achieved where there is cooperation rather than competition.

At a governance level he is a thought leader in enterprise risk and opportunity management good practice and how it can be strategically and practically applied to organisations to help optimise outcomes for all stakeholders. Jeff has written risk and audit guidelines for government agencies.

He has shown leadership and bravery in raising matters when others have turned a blind eye. His actions have been a catalyst for change and improvement of outcomes for all stakeholders.

Jeff’s experience has facilitated growth of several SMEs in the civil construction sector enabling them to rise as leaders in their industry. His strategic and cooperative approach helps to bring people together and work to the common objectives of: 

  1. Achieve sustainable profitability
  2. Grow the value of the business assets of the shareholder, alliance partners and customers
  3. Build a future we all look forward to.

Jeff is also passionate about helping Indigenous businesses better participate in sectors including civil construction, mining and renewables. His work in Ausinland and other businesses has an on-going focus on finding opportunities to help make a difference. 


Nathan Everett

CEO Collaborative Distribution Networks

Driven by collaboration and fueled by partnerships, Nathan approaches his professional journey with a refreshing authenticity. Unlike a previous elaborate biography that sought to highlight his supremacy in the field, Nathan’s approach is refreshingly straightforward. His genuine passion lies in assisting businesses in problem-solving and devising processes that prevent recurrent issues.

Nathan’s true fulfillment comes from streamlining operations and resources within businesses, effectively eliminating wastage. His forte lies in formulating and executing strategies and action plans that yield tangible outcomes. Interestingly, he finds solace in diversions like crafting marketing materials and websites to add variety to his tasks.

Nathan’s career has been enriched by the wisdom of numerous mentors, each echoing the values of collaboration, communication, and consistency as the bedrock of effective leadership. These very principles steer his own business ventures. While perfection isn’t his constant companion, he diligently pursues enhancement through persistent evaluation and refinement.

David Li

CEO Hunan Huikai Machinery
and Electrical Equipment Co. Ltd 

With over three decades of experience, David has made significant contributions in various industries, including mechanical and electrical manufacturing, tunnel support, highway slope protection and medical devices. During the formative years of Maccaferri China, David played a pivotal role in marketing, team development, product delivery and project implementation, laying a strong foundation for the company’s establishment and rapid growth in China.
David has also demonstrated his expertise in corporate restructuring by assisting a medical enterprise in Guangzhou with organizational alignment and team restructuring in preparation for its IPO.

Since joining Huikai as a Director and CEO, David has led the company to new heights. Under his leadership, he has assembled high-performing teams, strengthened supply chain management, enforced stringent quality control measures, enhanced operational efficiency and optimized customer-centric services. These strategic initiatives have significantly bolstered the company’s business and facilitated rapid growth.
David Li’s commitment to excellence and broad industry experience make him a valuable asset in various sectors, ensuring continued success in his professional journey.


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