About

Currently Sustainment & Support Readiness | OneSKY Program Manager at Airservices Australia, and a board director.

The Pattern

Reepal Shah is a Melbourne-based Program Director and board director with 20+ years leading complex transformation across aviation, defence, banking, retail and logistics, and the creator of the Integrated Transformation Execution Framework (ITEF).

The common thread across my career is complex, cross-functional transformation — building program structure where it doesn't exist, and rebuilding it where it has failed. My work now applies that experience to governance design and board-level oversight, where the structural conditions for success or failure are set.

The central premise of my work: most transformation failure root causes sit upstream of where post-mortems place them. My frameworks and advisory work focus on identifying those structural risks early — before they become visible in delivery metrics.

Career Chapters

2024–present

Government, Aviation & Defence

Airservices Australia

Sustainment & Support Readiness | OneSKY Program Manager (Aug 2026–present): Plans and integrates sustainment, supportability and operational readiness across CMATS, ADOT and BVCS.

Support Solution Implementation Lead / Program Integration Lead (Feb 2024–Aug 2026): Led support readiness and cross-program integration, RAID and executive reporting, and supplier governance. Established the Airservices–Defence Joint Support Procedures from scratch. Delivered $8M in cost optimisation over two years ($5M in Year 1, $3M in Year 2) through schedule alignment, resource optimisation and reduction of delivery inefficiencies. Active NV1 security clearance.

2024–present

Board & Governance

Current:

  • Board Member, Destination Phillip Island Regional Tourism (since May 2026) — Member of the Audit, Finance, Governance and Risk Committee. Prepared the board's Digital Governance, IT & Artificial Intelligence Framework paper (September 2026).
  • Non-Executive Director, Avenue Neighbourhood House at Eley Inc. — Elected unanimously at the AGM on 25 August 2026.

Former:

  • Non-Executive Director, Mulgrave Country Club (April 2024–July 2025) — Chair, Strategy & Systems Planning Committee; member, Governance & Risk Committee. First formal board appointment.

Member, Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD).

2022–2024

Cross-Sector Validation

Visy & Independent Advisory

Head of Operations Excellence, Visy Global Logistics (Aug 2022–Jul 2023): Led Lean transformation across logistics and freight forwarding in five countries, establishing a sustained operating cadence for continuous improvement. Established a program framework across five countries. Redesigned a key customer's order-to-cash process, cutting the invoice cycle from 75 days to under 30.

Followed by independent consulting across supply chain design and operational workflow (to 2024).

2019–2022

APAC Leadership

NCR Corporation

APAC PMO Director, then Executive Director, APAC Product Operations (May 2019–Jul 2022): USD 75M P&L accountability for the Transaction Services portfolio across 14 countries. Led a 100+ person delivery and PMO organisation. Developed Southeast Asia's Total Installation Services offering (approximately USD 15M annual revenue opportunity). Consolidated five Southeast Asian delivery teams from 36 to 21 people (USD 200K annual savings). Standardised portfolio governance and executive reporting.

2017–2019

South Pacific PMO

NCR Corporation

SPA PMO Director / Head of Project Management, South Pacific (Jun 2017–May 2019): AUD 35M customer-deployment portfolio. 25-person program, project and coordination team across Australia, New Zealand and India. Grew PMO revenue by 20% in two years. Partnered with BCG on supplier strategy and total cost of ownership.

Led the Next Generation Banknotes (NGBN) program: 22,000+ NCR devices upgraded across Australia for the Reserve Bank of Australia's polymer banknotes, for Westpac, ANZ, NAB, Bendigo Bank, Coles, Kmart, Woolworths, Big W and 7-Eleven, with no executive escalation. Recognised by NCR Global Executive Leadership as the benchmark for complex field-based programme execution.

2011–2017

Scale & Commercial Accountability

NCR Corporation

Program Manager, rising to SPA Program Director: First P&L ownership. This period saw the beginning of ITEF thinking — building program frameworks that held beyond the immediate delivery cycle.

2005–2011

Foundation

ANZ, Coles Group, BoAML, NCR/Fujitsu

Technical implementer to Project Manager at ANZ (Technical Analyst from 2005), Coles Group (four years), Bank of America Merrill Lynch and NCR/Fujitsu.

Governance Capability

  • Current boards: Destination Phillip Island Regional Tourism (AFGR Committee), Avenue Neighbourhood House
  • Cross-agency/regulatory: ASA–Defence Joint Support Procedures; NV1 active
  • Safety-critical program governance: CMATS, ADOT, BVCS
  • Technology governance: 14-country ERP rollout, PMO design, digital transformation oversight
  • Risk management: Risk dashboards, escalation paths, cross-stream coordination
  • Commercial/financial governance: USD 75M+ P&L, BCG co-delivery, revenue accountability
  • Operational governance: LEAN, 5S, DVM boards, CI framework across 5 countries

Credentials

  • NV1 Security Clearance (active)
  • Member, Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD)
  • PRINCE2 (APMG International)
  • AgilePM Foundation (APMG International)
  • ITIL V3 Foundation
  • Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

Open to conversations.

Senior executive roles, advisory work, and board or committee appointments.

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