Executives

Board of Advisors
The DigitalDM Advisory Board encompasses key industry players from its investor groups.
 

Neil Hucksteppe 
Director and CEO

Neil started his career in the travel industry, rising to senior roles with a number of global hotel groups including Intercontinental Hotels Group and Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group. His long-term interest in the digital space moved him into senior roles at Anasazi Inc, CNN and most recently as executive director and investor in Leonardo Media BV. 

In 2008, Neil joined DigitalDM as CEO and a major investor.

Neil is based out of the DigitalDM Singapore office.

David Tonkin 
Director

David has successfully launched a number of travel related businesses. He co-founded the first Flight Centre (1982), established Sydney Business Travel (1989), Just Flights (1991), Fare Finder (1992), Travel with Kidz (1996) and travel.com.au/lastminute.com in Aus/NZ (1998). David was CEO of Travel.com.au from January 1999 to August 2002 and was instrumental in raising A$23.5 million in the IPO.

In March 2002, David launched Express Travel Brochures (ETB), which commercialised 3D page-turning software into a single industry vertical. In 2003, David became a major investor in DigitalDM.

David works through the DigitalDM Sydney office.

David De Franceschi
Research and Development Director

David manages technical development and key client solutions.
He previously worked at BII Software, a multimedia games developer. He has broad multimedia and design experience.

Lesley Kent
Production Manager, Sydney office

Lesley manages the Sydney production centre.
She has extensive experience in the print and digital design industries.

Eric Lee
Production Manager, Singapore office

Eric manages the Singapore production centre for international clients.

Technical and Production Teams

DigitalDM has both technical and production teams in Sydney and Singapore. It has additional expansion capacity 'on call' in other global markets.