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Los Angeles, CA, US

Los Angeles, CA, US

d.Luxury Brands is a Los Angeles based investment and growth platform investing in and accelerating the value of digitally centric direct-to-consumer businesses.

California, US

ALIAVIA Ventures is an LA-based firm focused on early-stage venture capital investing in U.S. and Australian based female founders* building world-changing enterprise and consumer tech companies. Our team are operators and investors who have scaled tech businesses from $0-$500m, through to IPO, with a unique deal flow source and extensive global network.

I am an advisor and board member of several premium consumer-branded companies focusing on building direct-to-consumer business models including e-commerce, physical retail, and omnichannel strategy and implementation.

Founded in 2009, Banjo & Matilda is a luxury lifestyle brand initially founded in Australia, focused on making luxury cashmere sweaters more accessible and relevant to a modern lifestyle. Its core demographic are a 30+ woman. I joined my wife Belynda to help build one of the first digitally native e-commerce luxury brands in Australia.

Eight Mile Plains, Queensland, AU

Pie Face is an Australian based quick service franchised food retailer, specializing in premium Australian pies and coffee. Disrupting the traditional Australian meat-pie market, Pie Face creates premium pies and coffee using organic and premium ingredients, combined with an elevated consumer retail and brand experience. Pie Face now operates in 5.

Artist & Entertainment Group was Australia’s largest representative and manager of Australian artistic talent across the commercial, film, and television industry's. Formed and built by acquiring and merging over a dozen of Australia’s top talent agencies, AEG was eventually listed on the Australian stock exchange via an IPO. Artist & Entertainment Group.

AU

At the time I left the company in 2009, Brightstars was Australia’s largest children’s extra curricular performing arts educator. The company had nearly 10,000 students, attending classes across 50 school locations. The company’s mission was to bring confidence and self-esteem to children, and nourish their passion and interests in creative endeavors and.

Independent Australian music publisher, Fable Music has been in operation for over fifty years. Fable was created in the 1970’s to serve the publishing interests of Fable Records – one of the oldest Australian record labels. Fable Records became an icon in the Australian music industry achieving almost every industry award as well as a Guinness Book of.

Line56 Media was a publishing and events media company specializing in the e-commerce business-to-business market which was acquired and merged into another media group in 2003. Founded in 1999 while the internet tech boom was nearing its heights. Line56 grew from $0 to $20MM sales within 18 months. The company published a 100+ page magazine, held events.

MovieFone Australia was a joint venture between New York NASDAQ listed MovieFone, Inc and myself. MovieFone Inc was the largest provider of showtime and remote ticket sales to movie goers in America, with over 1/5th of all movie visits retrieving showtimes of purchasing tickets using MovieFone before each movie visit.I re-located to the US, holding the.

Voicecard is a patented interactive voice recognition and messaging system. I invented, developed and commercialized the technology in three countries before selling the business to a publicly listed Australian company in the mid 90's.