Leadership at Jaybro Group

Adrian Palumbo joined Jaybro Group as Chief Operating Officer in July 2022 and was promoted to CEO in July 2023. Prior to joining Jaybro, he had a 25 year career with the Reece Group where he led growth and transformation across operations, supply chain, merchandising, marketing and digital. A globally experienced leader having worked across transformation, M&A and core growth in complex environments, Adrian has a track record of delivering growth and profit through his ability to identify strategic imperatives, engaging effectively with key stakeholders, and building empowered successful teams.

Jeremy Joyce is a visionary entrepreneur and the esteemed co-founder of Jaybro Group, a leading supplier to the civil construction and infrastructure sector. With over two decades of industry expertise, Jeremy’s passion for innovation and dedication to customer service have propelled Jaybro to remarkable success. Jeremy Joyce is a visionary entrepreneur and the esteemed co-founder of Jaybro Group, a leading supplier to the civil construction and infrastructure sector. With over two decades of industry expertise, Jeremy’s passion for innovation and dedication to customer service have propelled Jaybro to remarkable success.

Paul joined the board of Jaybro Group in July 2021 following its acquisition of Delnorth, a leading supplier of infrastructure safety products to local government authorities, state departments of transport and public/private utility networks. Paul started in accounting at EY, before moving into a 10-year career in investment banking with RBS (London), Merrill Lynch and Nomura (Sydney). In 2015 Paul formed the Delnorth Group and led its growth up until its 2021 sale to Jaybro, where the business continues to thrive.

Renee is an experienced Senior Finance Leader with proven success operating in both Corporate and Divisional roles spanning building materials, property, marketing services, agriculture and consumer products. Renee has a track record of delivering complex strategic and transformational initiatives and motivating and developing teams to outperform their expectations. Renee is a Chartered Accountant and holds an MBA from MBS. She commenced her career with KPMG, spending 6 years working in professional services and subsquently spending 13 years in Senior Finance roles in ASX listed companies. For the last 4 years Renee has been working with investments held by Private Equity Funds.

Rebecca is a dynamic IT professional with a passion for driving growth and innovation in the technology sector. With over 18 years of industry experience, she joined Jaybro Group in November 2020 to lead and oversee their Data and Technology team. Rebecca's expertise spans various domains, including cybersecurity, process efficiency, and the strategic implementation of cost-effective technologies within the organisation. As an energetic and proactive leader, she is fully committed to taking the company to new levels of IT excellence. With her innovative mindset, passionate approach, and meticulous attention to detail, Rebecca serves as a catalyst for change and continuously drives improvements within the organisation.

Steffen joined Jaybro Group in May 2023 and leads the Marketing & Digital Strategy. Steffen is a result-oriented entrepreneur and growth leader with 15+ years experience creating high calibre award-winning teams and operations in Retail, Tech and Agency environments. Prior to joining Jaybro, Steffen was the CMO at Booktopia and part of the journey from privately owned to IPO. Steffen was ranked in the Top 50 People in Ecommerce in 2021, 22, 23. CMO50 2022 And awarded CEO Magazines Marketing Executive of the year in 2022.

Alison was appointed Group Human Resources Manager in June 2019. Prior to joining Jaybro Group, Alison was the Executive General Manager, Human Resources and Corporate Affairs for Port Authority of New South Wales. Alison is responsible for people, culture and safety at the Jaybro Group. Alison is passionate about aligning HR and HSEQ strategy to support business objectives though building leadership capability and engaged teams. Alison is extremely proud of Jaybro receiving certification and ranking as #4 in Australia's Best Workplaces List , as it cements and recognises the great people and teams we have here at Jaybro Group.

Michael is a passionate sales leader who joined Jaybro in 2018 bringing with him extensive experience in sales and sales management across a variety of businesses and industries including construction, hire, wholesale IT distribution and software sales Michael leads the sales organisation in developing and executing the Sales Strategy across the Group. Michael has a Bachelor’s Degree in Business (Majoring in Management and Marketing) from UTS and an Executive MBA from UNSW (AGSM).

Experienced business leader of multi-site, multi product manufacturing, and national sales and distribution enterprise. Proven entrepreneurial success and record of achievement in strategic development, delivering strong organic profit growth, organisation design, product development and change management.

Chris took an exciting opportunity in 2006 to be involved in the start-up of a new business and played a pivotal role in creating what we would call Global Synthetics today. Chris has been in the geosynthetic industry for over 18 years and spent the early part of his career working for Ten Cate. Today Chris is an integral part of the Global Synthetics Management Team. As National Sales Manager Chris is involved in large civil infrastructure projects having worked on such vital projects as Pacific Hwy Upgrade, Northconnex, Westconnex and Sydney Metro.

Experienced Executive level Operations Manager with a proven ability to positively transform large and complex operations from a Safety, Quality, Service and Operational Efficiency perspective through the continuous challenging of Business Strategies, Structures, Processes and People within a collaborative and financially focused environment.