Executive Director | Strategy | Funds Management
Dave believes the finance industry has the power and potential to have an awesome impact on society. He blends his background in financial services strategy and innovation with a passion for understanding how humans work together to deliver measurable outcomes. He has worked in fintechs, global management consultancies and regulators. Now he does the same with a global institutional fund manager.
Successful founder | CEO | Entrepreneur-In-Residence
Jamie's passion lies in helping ambitious leaders embrace disruptive innovation—especially artificial intelligence—to transform their workforces, design agile organisations, and fully unlock their innovation potential.
Senior Advisor | Board Member | Governance
John is a highly influential leader experienced at leading, growing and innovating business on a global stage. He has deep cross-industry expertise in strategy, risk, finance, technology impact, innovation, geopolitics and governance and excels at developing people and building strong relationships. During John’s time as Deloitte’s Global CSO, Deputy Chair of the Global Board and Asia Pacific CSO, Deloitte became the largest professional services firm in the world. It continuously outgrew all global competitors with a CAGR of approximately 10%, revenues of US$50Billion and 330,000 people.
Exited Founder | IPO | Mentor
Entrepreneur, Founder & Chief Executive Officer in online retail. Skills in negotiation, leadership, sales, forecasting, bootstrapping, PR, empowerment, managing an executive team, public speaking and innovation. A background in recruitment, programming, business development, selling, SEO and internet marketing.
Founder | Investor | Advisor
An experienced Board Member, Director, CEO and entrepreneur with over a decade of board level experience and a proven track record in building and growing global Fintech and services companies. Experienced in implementing organic and acquisition growth strategies, developing a sales and business development focus, and creating strong organisational culture to deliver quality outcomes to customers. An active investor with a key interest and focus on impact and sustainability (ESG).
Former Bank Executive | NED | Advisor
Mark is a retail and commercial banking CEO and consultant advising organisations on the megatrends shaping the new reality for banks around the world, including digital transformation, Banking as a Service, generative AI, and delivering technology-centred experiences for customers.
Creative Strategy & Design | Innovation
Stef has a commitment to impact rooted in a philosophy that marries business strategy with human-centric principles. The transition from enhancing customer experiences at 7-Eleven Australia to spearheading strategic design initiatives at Fabric represents a continuous journey of empowering teams and igniting enterprise innovation through a blend of creativity and analytical rigor.
Brand & Proposition Strategist
Nicola is pioneering how customer-led thinking informs strategy, proposition, brand and GTM experience to drive business growth. Nicola launched TheDesignThinkers to guarantee growth using her Tier 1 experience in deep partnership with clients. Nicola knows that in this hyper-competitive business environment, differentiation is critical to assuring premiumisation and mitigating commoditisation. She uses the business strategy to design a differentiated proposition as the base for brand as an operating system that informs every touchpoint.
AI | Technology Strategy
Over 25 years business and technology consulting experience providing technical and business transformation advisory and large-scale program and solution implementation services to C-suite clients across Australia and Europe. Now working with startups looking to scale.
AI | Blockchain | Emerging technology
Nick works with startups and scaleups to unlock the power of emerging technologies—particularly artificial intelligence, blockchain, and decentralised systems—to solve real-world problems and build scalable, resilient solutions.
Strategy & Operations | Startup Operator Experience
Hubert brings years of strategy, commercial and digital consulting experience to help businesses and organisations to explore and achieve their ambition. Hubert is particularly interested in realising and maximising the value delivered for the ecosystem, beyond purely the financial equation.
Community Builder | Content Creator | Story Teller
Lach build communities and connects people to get things done quickly. A relationship builder and networker of the highest order.
Founder | Podcast Host | Agile Practitioner
Rob is a transformation specialist and certified agile practitioner, working passionately across the Australian VC and startup ecosystem. Well connected and always looking to bring people together to build sustainable businesses.
Executive Coach | Mentoring
Brad Barr is a seasoned leadership coach with over 30 years of experience in leadership roles and coaching across diverse industries and geographies, including Australia, the US, UK, and PNG. His focus is on equipping leaders and teams in fast-growing businesses to thrive amidst complexity and scale effectively.
Executive Coaching | High Performance Team Development
An expert leadership and performance development professional with experience across multiple premier sporting organisations such as the Western Bulldogs (AFL), Scottish Rugby and the All Blacks (Rugby Union) and many complex ASX 50 organisations.