After graduating from Sydney University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree, majoring in Psychology and Economics, Simone travelled extensively through Europe and the United Kingdom for twelve months. She returned to Australia and worked successfully in both industrial and consumer sales in business development roles for the first decade of her career.

A highlight was in the position as National Retail Account Manager, she successfully introduced and marketed a reputable retail product and grew a quality distribution base in the national retail sector. Simone regularly presented products on national morning television programmes and devised state by state promotional programmes.

During this time Simone completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management and her interest in sales training and staff motivation led her to become responsible for managing a variety of key sales teams, designing sales/product manuals and recruiting sales personnel.

Simone's interests in Psychology and Human Resource led her to join the recruitment industry in 1993. Initially she worked for Morgan & Banks within the Industrial Sales Division, she then specialised in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods sector and in 1997 she won the Consultant of the Year Award.

In July 1998 Simone recognised an enormous need for a Specialised Recruitment and Human Resource Consultancy within growing entrepreneurial business sectors such as the Australian wine industry, the direct selling/franchising sectors and the consumer/tourism/hospitality sectors. Simone set up Mondo Search in 1998, based in Sydney.

She recognised that a consultancy that offered enduring intimacy and a “wholistic service” approach to building awesome teams and identifying talent was needed within the transactional recruitment industry. A mature team of twelve industry specialised consultants now work in her team, in locations Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney, with no loss in retention for over 3 years. They have placed many key Senior Executives within the consumer goods sector, including Managing Directors, National Sales Managers, Marketing Directors, Brand Managers, Finance and Technical.

Services that Mondo Search provides not only include Executive Search and Recruitment but also Competency Profiling, Succession Planning, Outplacement and Senior Executive Coaching. In 2009 they also set up a new division called Mondo Partners – totally focused on board appointments and CEO permanent and contract roles.

Simone is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a Board member of the EO (Entrepreneurs Organisation), a member of the Wine Communicators of Australia and is formerly a board member on the School Council of Barker College, Hornsby. Simone also writes a regular column for the National Liquor News on Human Resource issues facing the Australian market place. Mostly Simone enjoys spending time with her husband and two sons (aged 7 and 9) on the beach, in the surf, reading, cooking and entertaining.