About Us

Michael Omeros

Michael is a co-founder and the Managing Director of the Company.

Michael has over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications and IT services sectors, and graduated from QUT in 1994 with a Bachelor of Engineering – Electronics (First Class Honours) and Bachelor of IT (with Distinction).

Prior to Over the Wire, Michael held a Senior Management role at GBST, worked for Zurich Insurance in the UK and founded Celentia which now forms part of Over the Wire.

Brent Paddon

Brent is a co-founder and Director of the Company.

Brent has over 20 years of experience in telecommunications and IT services sectors and graduated from QUT in 1996 with a Bachelor of IT. He also completed a Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from QUT in 2008.

Prior to Over the Wire, Brent held a senior management role at WebCentral, worked for Pipe Networks and founded Brisbane Internet Technology, which was sold to Asia Online.

Scott Smith

Scott was co-Founder of Comlinx, the Managed Service Provider acquired by Over the Wire in November 2018. Prior to establishing Comlinx, Scott held numberous senior roles in Sydney, Hong Kong and Singapore, most recently on Avaya’s Asia Pacific Leadership team as Director of Global Accounts.

Scott was appointed CEO of Over the Wire in March, 2020. He is a firm believer in building progressive and empowered teams that have customer outcomes at the core of the strategy.

Ben Melville

Ben joined Over the Wire in November 2018 as Financial Controller.

Ben was appointed Chief Financial Officer in March, 2020.

Ben is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants with over 10 years experience. Prior to joining Over the Wire, he was Audit Manager at PKF.

Gary Pittorino

Gary was appointed COO of Over the Wire in September 2018. Gary is focussing on further improving the Over the Wire customer experience and establishing scalable and sustainable systems and processes to support Over the Wire’s growth strategy.

Ben Cornish

Ben was appointed General Manager – Voice and Data in 2012, quickly taking the reigns as COO and then CTO for the Over the Wire group of companies.

He has 20 years of experience in the telecommunications sector, specifically around running data communications networks and managing 24×7 Network Operations Centres.

Prior to Over the Wire, Ben was Practice Manager for the Voice & Data business at Brennan IT and Operations Manager at Iexec.

Piers Tyler

Piers joined in mid-2019 and is focused on repeating the remarkable sales growth he helped create at Vocus. Excited by the challenger potential of Over the Wire, he’s aiming to bring focus, purpose and energy to the sales and marketing teams. He’s in the early stages of executing his new business development strategy, but watch this space because he believes we’re the next big thing in IT&T.

Rebecca Tuma

Rebecca joined Over the Wire in April 2018. Rebecca is focussing on implementing a program of work that develops our talent and builds a happy, engaged, customer focused environment that delivers business growth and creates a thriving workplace.

Jay Binks

Jay has been responsible for building Over the Wire’s voice platform, NetSIP, and has been instrumental in building this into a core solution category for the company. Having expanded his scope in 2019 with his appointment as General Manager – Products & Innovation, Jay is focussing on the strategic direction of the group’s product portfolio along with the successful implementation of new offerings to benefit Australian businesses.

Dennis Muscat

Dennis joined Over the Wire after the acquisition of Telarus where he was the CEO. Dennis is focussing on expanding the organic growth of the company through targeted marketing and sales execution of new business opportunities.