Who we are

About Us

Welcome to Emantra

Emantra is an Australian Managed Service Provider with offices in Brisbane and Canberra and a national footprint of owned infrastructure.

Since its founding in September 2005, Emantra has grown from being one of Australia’s first and largest Microsoft Software-as-a-Service partners to now operating its services from both Sovereign and Cloud platforms across Australia and New Zealand, and playing a prominent role in hosting and cyber security.

Emantra is one of only a few businesses in Australia operating at the federal government’s PROTECTED level standard for data handling, infrastructure and services. We present a unique combination of sovereign practitioner experience, cyber-risk expertise, premium facilities and young minds and ideas.

So, welcome! Challenge us – we’re ready to hit the ground running. We promise a refreshing, open approach built on strong relationships, no corporate bureaucracy and no time wasting.

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Our Values & Experience

18 Years of Continual Improvement

Our Vision

We see a society which can confidently store, access and trust information anywhere, anytime. Emantra envisions itself having a key role in the delivery of this secure future for all Australians.

Our Mission

We protect and enable our Customers’ businesses through ensuring the Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability of their data and critical digital systems.

Our Values

• "Good enough" is not good enough - We commit 100% to quality outcomes - every person, through good times and bad.
• The cup is half full - We bring optimism, positivity and creativity to work every day, providing solutions, not excuses.
• Dream large! - We are passionate individuals who think outside the box. We see no limits to what we can achieve.
• Own it! - We take accountability and responsibility for our work and our relationships.
• Aussie, Aussie, Aussie… Oi! Oi! Oi! - Emantra is proudly 100% Australian owned and operated. We live and breathe Australian values - we are fair and competitive by nature. And yes, we are having fun.

leadership

Emantra is a challenging and rewarding place to work for bright young Australians in Australia’s best city, Brisbane. We are proud of our strong culture, our happy team and our achievements together – we think this shines through in the quality of our service and customer relationships. Emantra employs about 20 FTE technical staff and contractors, with that number growing all the time. We also have a three-person external Advisory Group comprised of Queensland business leaders and mentors.

Emantra is an Australian SME with talent, energy and ambition.

Ross Dewar

CEO, OWNER

Ross’s work has been in the financial, technology and governance disciplines. Ross founded Emantra in 2005. He is a career Australian and US public company director and CFO, recovering Chartered Accountant, and investor. He is a classic car and guitar collector.

Fender or Gibson? Fender!

Ashley Knowles

general manager

Ashley oversees the company’s technology operations and commercial arrangements. Ashley came to Emantra in 2021 with a history in consulting roles, across systems engineering, cloud platform & security architecture and integration. Ashley is currently undertaking a Master of Cyber Security and has a long list of Microsoft Certified Professional credentials. He is an avid SimRacer, and loves camping and hiking with his family.

Whisky or Wine? Whisky

Aman Grewal

Technical Services manager

Aman has a strong history in managing technical delivery and managed service teams, with a background in infrastructure management.

Helen Rogerson

HR Manager

Helen leads the people function at Emantra which covers professional development, counselling, team building and recruitment. Her passion lies in building individual leaders and team culture and she does that in an innovative and authentic way. Helen’s interests lie in horse-womanship and a semi-rural lifestyle.

Horse or buggy? Horse of course!

It's been a busy and rewarding seventeen years...

GREEN CREDENTIALS

Emantra takes its green obligations seriously. We recognise that servers and infrastructure generally are energy intensive. We take the following steps to reduce our carbon footprint:

We invest significantly in the latest technology and the most energy efficient machines available.
We use virtual servers where possible to minimise our gross power consumption.
We select sovereign data centres based on a number of criteria including security, reliability, connectivity and, importantly, power and water usage efficiency.
We require our data centre providers to disclose their PUE metrics, which are monitored to ensure their relative efficiency and continual improvement.
We require our data centre providers to commit to a carbon neutral outcome by 2030.
Currently, our major data centre provider reports that it:
- uses 100% renewable power in Canberra,
- will be carbon neutral by 2030,
- complies with environmental legislation and internationally recognised standards (including AS/NZS ISO14001:2015 Environmental Management Systems), and
- ensures that there is no water wastage across its entire operation. All cooling water is recycled.

Green Credentials