About Connection Research

Connection Research was founded in 2005 to conduct research into changing technologies in the home and in the commercial space. In 2008 our emphasis expanded into environmental and sustainable issues, at the domestic, consumer and corporate levels.  

We believe sustainability to be the most important issue facing individuals, business and society in the 21st century. Our research activities are directed towards supporting our clients in understanding the key issues involved, and in developing strategies to confront those issues.

We conduct customised and syndicated market research projects, with a strong emphasis on primary research, and use this data to provide continuous in-depth analysis, benchmarking and consulting services, across four practices; Community Sustainability, IT Sustainability, Carbon an Compliance, and Building Industry and Trades. We pay particular attention to energy efficiency in all these areas, and to the effects on every aspect of the energy supply chain. 

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The Connection Research Team

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William Ehmcke, CEO  

William Ehmcke is the CEO of Connection Research. William is best known for founding IT market research company Meta Group in Asia Pacific. Meta Group was acquired by leading IT analysis group Gartner in 2004.  William joined Connection Research in February 2009 and together with founder and Research Director Graeme Philipson is taking the company into new areas as yet untouched by traditional market research in Australia.     

Contact details:

Direct: +61 2 9467 9822 

Mobile:  0411 861 445 

Email:   williame@connectionresearch.com.au    

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Graeme Philipson, Research Director
Graeme is founder of Connection Research. He has been in the IT industry for 30 years, most of that time as a technology market researcher and journalist. He is author of Connection Research's innovative Connected Home reports, and heads up the company's research activities in the digital technology, home automation, and the sustainable technology and electrical industries.

Graeme was a founder of Strategic Publishing Group (SPG), and founding editor of MIS magazine. He built SPG's research arm across Asia Pacific before its acquisition by Gartner, when he became Gartner's Asia Pacific Research Director.

Contact details:
Direct: +61 2 9467 9811
Mobile: 0418 609 397
Email:  graemep@connectionresearch.com.au 

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Cassandra Philips, Portfolio Manager

Cassandra has been with Connection Research for over two years, and is responsible for the Sustainability Research Portfolio as well as the company's sales and marketing activities. This has involved the successful liaison with federal and state departments on key issues relating to sustainability and Australian consumer, household and business behaviour. She has developed an extensive knowledge base of energy, water and waste national behaviours and trends and successfully develops and manages the Connection Research Community Sustainability portfolio. Cassandra has over 16 years experience in management, ICT, sales and business development. She is also a member of the Residential Energy Management Forum (Copper Development Centre). Cassandra brings to her position of Sustainability Portfolio Manager with Connection Research a wealth of knowledge and a solid background in Sales, Marketing, ICT and Business Development.

Contact details:

Direct: +61 2 9467 9833

Mobile: 0405 350 806

Email: cassandrap@connectionresearch.com.au

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Angus Macaskill, Senior Associate 
Angus Macaskill has over 30 years’ business experience in the ICT, market research and publishing sectors.  In the ICT sector, Angus’ mix of technical, project management. sales and marketing, and management know-how was gained from roles in global ICT corporations such as Siemens-Nixdorf, ICL and Fujitsu.  

Angus has managed a wide range of market research projects – at Strategic Research, at Inform Business Development and at GfK Marketing Services. Angus has just completed a 3-year stint as APAC Vice President of Client Service for online research outfit Lightspeed Research. He has worked extensively in the larger APAC economies as well as in the UK, New Zealand and Australian markets. 

Previously, Angus set up and managed the New Zealand arm of Strategic Publishing Group (SPG) and was the founding editor of MIS New Zealand magazine.  Later, as a senior leadership team-member at SPG, he worked with Connection Research colleague Graeme Philipson in growing the Strategic Research division across Asia Pacific, in addition to broader strategic responsibilities as a director of SPG.  

Contact details:
Phone: +61 2 9467 9800

Mobile:  0417 280 001

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Bhuvan Unhelkar, Senior Associate
Bhuvan Unhelkar (BE, MDBA, MSc, PhD; FACS) has spent more than two decades as a strategic as well as hands-on professional in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) industry. As Founder and Consultant of MethodScience.com he has notable practical consulting and training expertise in business analysis, software engineering (modelling, processes and quality), enterprise architecture (including SOA), green IT and the environment, project management, collaborative web services and mobile business. 

His domain experience includes financial, insurance, government, banking, retail, as well as telecommunication organisations wherein he has created industry-specific service-oriented architectures, process maps, transformation maps, quality strategies and business transformation approaches. Bhuvan's hands-on experience has lead to the creation of many seminars and industrial courses over the past few years in the aforementioned areas, which have now been delivered to business executives and IT professionals globally. Training courses delivered through MethodScience have been consistently ranked high and acclaimed by the participating professionals from the industry.

Contact details:
Direct: +61 2 9467 9800
Mobile:  0413 821 454 
Email:      bhuvanu@connectionresearch.com.au

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Maximilian Philipson, Research Analyst
Max recently graduated from Bond University in the Gold Coast with a Bachelor of Communications, majoring in Media Studies. Now living in Sydney, he plans to expand his knowledge of the Green IT industry and continue developing his market research skills. He is playing an integral part in Connection Research's new survey initiative Residential Energy Management 2010.

Contact details:

Direct: +61 2 9467 9855 

Mobile:  0411 589 493 

Email:     maxp@connectionresearch.com.au

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Walter Monitor
Mascot

Walter Monitor is our company mascot. He is very wise, and a source of great knowledge about all things sustainable and environmental.

Walter monitors the green landscape, and misses nothing. He is our inspiration and our mentor. He is of the species varanus salvator (water monitor) – found throughout South-East Asia and the Indian subcontinent, and at Connection Research.

Varanus salvator is a large species of monitor lizard capable of growing over 3 metres in length. Maximum weight can be over 75 kg, but most are half that size. Their body is muscular with a long powerful laterally compressed tail. Water monitors are one of the most common monitor lizards found in Asia. (Source: Wikipedia).

If you are in the green space, Walter is watching you. He knows. He sees. He monitors.