Mark Davis
CEO and Founder of Keyvision
Mark commenced his working career in the construction industry in 1981 as a carpenter and qualified builder in the inner suburbs of Melbourne. Over the past 40 years Mark’s development and building group of companies provided a range of services which included Town Planning, Project Feasibilities, Architecture, Construction and Property Development.
His Stonehenge Group of companies designed and built over 1000 projects which included, land divisions, masterplan communities, apartment and townhouse developments, Aged Care & Retirement developments, High End Residential Custom Homes and Renovations.
Mark established an International Division of the Stonehenge Group in one of the world’s most demanding markets, Japan. The company successfully completed over 40 projects using Australian Labor and materials which included designing and building the award-winning Australian Consul General’s residence in Kobe in 1997.
With a reputation for excellence, the Stonehenge Group received over 60 National Housing awards including the HIA Australian Quality Builder of the year award. Mark also successfully launched and establishment the “Action Indoor Sports” Brand company in 1999 with Japan’s largest health and fitness operator Konami Corporation which licensed the business management systems and software.
Enter Keyvision
A sliding door moment came when Mark was invited to visit the famous Xerox PARC at Palo Alto in 1995 when he had a chance meeting with a prominent fellow Aussie Dr Craig Mudge, at a Comdex Conference in the USA. Craig was the director of the legendary Computer Science Lab in the nineties and nurtured the next generation Internet Protocol. Craig later founded the Macquarie Institute for Innovation at Macquarie University where he was Professor of Innovation.
This was the inspiration that led Mark to launch Australia’s first “Online Community Portal” in 1999 using one of his building development projects as the case study. The project was awarded a Federal and State innovation grant to study how the internet would impact and affect building projects of the future. Mark and his team collaborated with Dr Michael Arnold Professor of Professor of Historical and Philosophical Studies and his students undertaking their thesis.
Keyvision became a pioneer and leading consultant to many prominent developers around Australia during the early 2000’s and this became the core learning foundation of the services and solutions that Keyvision are providing companies, property developers, facility and community managers today.
In 2014 Mark also partnered with an entrepreneurial US based company “ENPLUG” and is supporting his son Nathan (CEO of ENPLUG) to deliver this disruptive online digital signage software in all sectors of industry in Australia, New Zealand and Japan.
Mark continues to innovate, collaborate and expand his knowledge and network with many international Property Technology partners and is proud of his young and talented innovative loyal team developing the Keyvision Brand, product, platform and service offerings.