CSA’s New Managing Director is Rob Kurz

Rob has a degree in Electronic Engineering from Curtin University in WA. Rob started his career in the mining/rail industry in Australia and pioneered much of the work done in developing instrumentation & data logging equipment to understand long train dynamics & diesel electric locomotive performance. Rob spent the first nine years of his working life with Rio Tinto Corporation before relocating to the then world leader in rail system data acquisition, Hasler Ltd. in Switzerland. After several years as a technical and project manager, Rob moved into a Sales Management role to manage a range of public and private customers throughout the United Kingdom and North America .

In the mid nineties, Rob moved into the telecom industry and held several senior sales and management operations roles in Europe and the Americas with Ascom Transmission, a Swiss based telecommunications products group. When Ascom was subsequently acquired by Keymile, Rob successfully took on the role of Managing Director of the startup company Keymile Brazil Ltda, and was based in Rio de Janeiro . From 2008 – 2010, Rob rounded out his North American career back in the rail industry with UGL Rail, managing the sales and business development operations in North America.

Given Rob’s extensive experience in data acquisition, telecommunications, sales, product management , and business operations, the Board of CSA is excited at the prospect of having Rob lead our company to new heights. We welcome Rob, his wife Audrey and their two teenage children to Townsville. Having spent their family life in Switzerland, the USA and Brazil, they are no strangers to moving abroad or to living in warm climates. Rob and his family moved to Townsville early January from the United States, and despite these past experiences , it was a still quite an adventure for the family to sit through Cyclone Yasi after only a short time in Australia.