STORMAN SOFTWARE

Meet Haydn Salvas, General Manager of Storman Software

Earlier this year, Storman Software welcomed Haydn Salvas into the role of general manager. We asked him a few questions to learn more about his experience, learnings, and future plans.

QWhat was your experience before accepting the role of Storman’s general manager?

My experience comes from roles in banking and finance. I was consulting with corporations about their software and automation and helping them optimise their business processes. Before coming to Storman I led the school finance business unit within Sentral, a software business servicing schools and education departments across Australia. At Sentral, we started out with just a handful of customers wanting change from their inefficient and dated systems to a scalable, end-toend solution – and grew the business significantly from there. I’ve been with Storman since June and enjoy the new opportunity and challenge.

QWhat key opportunities do you see for the self storage industry?

I think the broad range of different businesses, all with other customer value propositions, are looking to solve and support the customer’s needs in different ways – and I see technology and automation playing a crucial role in supporting that. I’m excited to work alongside the team at Storman, storage operators across Australasia, and the SSAA to provide a cloud-based solution that can support and empower each of these unique offerings. As part of the opportunity that technology offers for self storage, I also see the evolving and everpresent security and compliance that our industry relies on coming to the fore. From a software perspective, we’re keen to provide operators with a modern, secure and compliant platform that offers realtime visibility into areas where they can improve service, reduce cost, and automate their business.

QHow can Storman assist self storage facilities with those opportunities?

Storman is incredibly lucky to have a team with decades of hands-on storage experience, and the support and experience that comes from being a part of a Fortune 500 company. Our industry understanding and unique position leaves us firmly placed to stay on top of global market trends and to provide a unique cloud-first approach to servicing our customers. Additionally, the deep and secure payments integration we provide offers storage operators an all-inone storage management solution they can be confident in, no matter their size or structure.

QWhat’s on the roadmap for Storman in 2023 and beyond?

Storman has been incredibly successful and is privileged to be a market leader within Australia and New Zealand. We’re planning to take stock of that growth and work to deliver an even greater customer experience. We will achieve this by incorporating more feedback from the Stormanites, that love our product and have great ideas for improvements, and by introducing new features and innovations that we see emerging in future markets. From a product perspective, many exciting things are on the cards next year and beyond. We’re exploring contract management designed to allow storage facilities to quickly and easily adjust the components of the storage contract to suit their business needs. We’ll also launch integrated Eftpos payments, making it easier for end users to pay and increasing timely payments. We also have plans to expand our dashboard and portfolio reporting capabilities, giving customers a deeper insight into the performance of their facilities.

QTell us a little about yourself outside the world of Storman and self storage

Weekends are pretty busy keeping up with my two boys and pup. I enjoy diving on the wrecks offshore in Victoria or the caves in Mt Gambier, South Australia. One happy coincidence of cave diving in South Australia is that there’s a winery not too far away to have lunch or a postdive debrief. I’ve been lucky enough to dive in several places worldwide, including Bikini Atoll (a testing site for nuclear weapons), Scapa Flow (WW1 German wrecks in Scotland), Florida caves and Mexico Cenotes. If tempted, I will bore anyone with multiple albums of photos from my dive trips. l