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Socialite, our creative wing, is revolutionising the video production landscape. Presently evolving into a cutting-edge marketplace, Socialite aims to seamlessly connect brands with visionary creators for high-impact video content that is efficient, swift, and cost-effective, available anytime and across the globe.
Concurrently, Up & Gro, our tech-savvy arm, excels in web and application design and development, crafting digital solutions that empower our clients' online presence. Due to my passion for creating great web and application products, you can expect to hear from me often as I also manage client relationships for Up & Gro directly.
Nexist
Up & Gro, the tech-driven arm of Nexist, thrives in the "software design & engineering" space, constantly innovating and growing. They excel in:
Web Design and Development: Up & Gro crafts cutting-edge digital solutions that empower clients to establish a strong and impactful online presence.
Application Design and Development: Their expertise extends to mobile apps, creating user-friendly and engaging tools to enhance brand interaction.
Client Focus: Driven by the founder's passion for great digital products, Up & Gro fosters close client relationships, ensuring projects align with specific needs and goals.
Up & Gro operates seamlessly alongside Socialite, the creative wing of Nexist, fostering a collaborative environment that brings both creative vision and technical expertise to every project. This unique synergy allows Nexist to offer clients a comprehensive solution for their online presence and video content needs.
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🧭 Charles Sturt
Charles Sturt built The Grange in 1840 and lived there with his wife Charlotte and their children until the family's return to England in 1853. Already known for expeditions through the inland river systems, he departed from this home for his 1844 Central Australian expedition. The house later gave its name to the surrounding suburb and now operates as a museum. The house preserves a family setting behind the expeditions through which the city's namesake became widely known.
🏭 Geoff Gerard
Geoff Gerard helped turn the family’s Bowden manufacturing works into a major producer of electrical fittings and moulded plastics. New premises opened in 1936; wartime demand and later investment brought further expansion. As managing director and then chairman, Geoff combined commercial ambition with his brother Ken’s technical expertise. The Clipsal name described fittings that clipped to metal conduit, while new plastics processes broadened the business. By his retirement in 1976, the Bowden plant covered ten thousand square metres and employed six hundred staff. The local connection is sustained industrial work, with factory buildings and jobs behind a familiar trade name.
🔧 Ken Gerard
Ken Gerard brought electrical engineering and plastics expertise to the Gerard family’s Bowden factory. As factory manager and a company director, he helped develop manufacturing capacity alongside his brother Geoff’s commercial leadership. Expansion into plastic moulding and later PVC became important parts of the enterprise behind Clipsal fittings. His work extended beyond the factory: he lectured in plastics, led professional organisations and represented manufacturers in electrical approvals and standards work for more than thirty years. Bowden’s connection is practical production and management, linking a large local workplace with the less visible task of improving materials, methods and technical standards.
⛪ Tom Reed
Tom Reed served at St Michael and All Angels, Henley Beach, from 1936 to 1944, first as priest-in-charge and later as rector. His subsequent responsibilities included army chaplaincy, cathedral leadership and, eventually, the Anglican archbishopric of Adelaide. Reed was also a literary scholar whose study of Henry Kendall led to two books. He valued traditional forms of worship and could be resistant to change, but his interests extended to comic verse, painting, genealogy and golf. The Henley Beach parish records a sustained local ministry before the larger administrative demands of leading a diocese.
