Melbourne based · Globally connected · Advisory group · Since 2006
CommsPartner is a Melbourne based, global advisory and investment group helping businesses buy, sell, reuse and grow, in Australia and into new markets.
Why us
“Our hindsight becomes your foresight.”
CommsPartner, advising and investing since 2006.
Building and leading Mazuma Mobile Australia.
Winning team behind brand growth and sector recognition, year after year.
Second-hand dealer and pawnbroker, Victoria.
Advisory and services
One usually needs the other. Sanity, not vanity: every piece of work is judged by what it changes in your business.
Mentoring, non-executive and board-level support for founders and MDs.
Working through growing pains, judgement calls and exit strategies.
Investor advisory, target audits, due diligence and negotiation.
Six Sigma, Ansoff and RACI (who is Responsible, Accountable, Consulted and Informed), applied plainly.
Market research, early adopters, in-territory compliance and executive board members.
Media training, conflict mediation, keynote and interview speakers.
Development, testing, accreditation and compliance.
Building and running online stores and marketplace channels.
Protecting people, brands, assets and the bottom line.
Designed, launched and run for retailers, telcos and brands.
Certified data erasure, disposal, remarketing and audits, through trusted partners.
Extended warranty and lifecycle programmes that keep products earning for longer.
How we work
Understand your business, your numbers and what you actually want.
Walk in the right direction before you run.
Put the plan to work with the right people, partners and timing.
Review what is working, refine it and grow from there.
Founder
Founder, CommsPartner
Aid founded CommsPartner in 2006. From 2009 to 2024 he built, launched and led Mazuma Mobile Australia, pioneering phone buy-back in Australia and taking the business to market leadership.
Earlier, as a director of GEOS Alliance, he helped build an international emergency response coordination centre, later acquired by Garmin. Today he works as a mentor, non-executive and investor across technology, reuse and eCommerce businesses.
“Act like, operate like and look like a bigger, more organised business, and one day you’ll look over your shoulder and find you are one.”
Aid Rawlins
Our ethos
Good business and sustainability are not opposites.
Mottainai (もったいない) is a Japanese expression meaning “What a waste!” or “Waste not, want not”. It carries a real regret at wasting, misusing or failing to appreciate the full value of resources, objects, time or talent.
It is the thinking behind everything we do: find the value others overlook, and put it back to work.
Group brands
Visit Cut Price Gadgets and Best Case Scenario.
In the media
Podcast
Aid Rawlins, Managing Director, Mazuma Mobile Australia.
Listen on Apple PodcastsArticle
Sustainability Matters.
Read the articleTelevision
National breakfast television.