Advisory, mentoring and boards
For founders, MDs and boards. Mentoring, non-executive and board-level services from someone who has sat in your chair.
“My hindsight becomes your foresight.”
Melbourne advisory group · Since 2006
Hindsight that becomes your foresight.
CommsPartner is a Melbourne advisory and investment group helping businesses buy, sell, reuse and grow, in Australia and into new markets.
Advisory
Advice from people who have built it, run it and grown it.
20 years
CommsPartner, advising and investing since 2006.
15 years
Building and leading Mazuma Mobile Australia.
Award-winning
Mobile Industry Awards, Best Recycling Service 2022.
Licensed
Second-hand dealer and pawnbroker, Victoria.
Services
Six practical ways we help.
Sanity, not vanity. Every piece of work is judged by what it changes in your business.
Buy-back and trade-in programmes
We design, launch and run buy-back and trade-in programmes for retailers, telcos and brands.
Built on 15 years leading the sector in Australia.
IntoAU market entry
IntoAU helps overseas businesses enter Australia with low risk and low investment.
Territory and channel management, market research, launch and local representation.
IT asset disposition and secure data erasure
Through trusted partners: certified data erasure, device disposal and remarketing, and IT asset audits.
Value back from equipment you no longer need.
Resilience and continuity
Security, risk and business continuity advice for businesses and key executives.
Plan for the bad day before it arrives.
eCommerce and marketplaces
Building and running online stores and marketplace channels.
Practical set-up and day-to-day operation, focused on sales.
How we work
Four steps, in the right order.
Listen and audit
Understand your business, your numbers and what you actually want.
Plan
Walk in the right direction before you run.
Launch
Put the plan to work with the right people, partners and timing.
Level up
Review what is working, refine it and grow from there.
Founder
Aid Rawlins
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
- Mobile Industry AwardsMazuma: Best Recycling Service 2022.
- Mobile News AwardsMazuma: 2014, 2015 and 2016, including Best Customer Service 2016.
- Arnold SchwarzeneggerRecognised for sustainability efforts.
- HRH King CharlesSpecial mention, as Prince of Wales, for creating wealth from perceived waste.
Our ethos
Doing good while doing business.
Good business and sustainability are not opposites. Reuse returns value from what people thought was waste.
The Japanese have a word for the regret of waste: mottainai. We build businesses that avoid it.
Our brands
Consumer brands in the group.
Cut Price Gadgets
Real gadgets, cut prices, delivered Australia-wide.
Best Case Scenario
Phone protection that doesn’t cost the earth.
More brands in the group are on the way.
In the media
From the Mazuma years.
Podcast
Talking Business with Alan Kohler
Aid Rawlins, Managing Director, Mazuma Mobile Australia.
Listen on Apple PodcastsArticle
Giving mobile phones another life
Sustainability Matters.
Read the articleTelevision
Featured on Channel 7’s Sunrise
National breakfast television.
- Emailhello@commspartner.com
- Phone+61 3 8849 0333
- PostPO Box 1005, Berwick VIC 3806