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Brisbane, Qld, Au

Brisbane, Queensland, Au

At Skipper, we're turning everyday habits into a force for good, so we can all feel great about the future of our planet.Our products skip the waste, our proceeds tackle the war on waste, and our policy advocacy will prevent future waste.Since launching in January 2021 we have:- Transitioned over 280,000 homes to just-add-water consumption across AU & US- Prevented over 3.5 million plastic bottles from being consumed through our tablet alternatives- Hired an amazing team of talented and passionate staff in Australia- Turned over $1M in the first 12 months, and hit 8-figure revenues within 3 yearsOur vision is to make zero-waste easy and accessible to all. More to follow.#timeforaseachange

Sydney, Au

A hobby project started between jobs in 2018 and has ran the gauntlet since. We develop home composting consumer goods, and have helped divert organic waste from landfill for over 10,000 new households a year in the US. The sustainability focused initiative is also sustainable, at cash-flow positive and ~300%+ ROI per unit sold.

New York, Ny, Us

Career sabbatical, assisting ad-hoc from time to time with strategic finance / corp dev initiatives.

New York, Ny, Us

Currently working as a Strategy Lead for Cover Genius, the global Insurtech for embedded insurance. Our insurance distribution platform processes over 9-figures ($USD) of annual gross written premiums for some of the largest e-commerce companies globally.In 2020, Cover Genius was ranked the #1 High Growth Company in Asia-Pacific by the Financial Times (out of 1,000).My role to date has blended both strategic projects and strategic finance in the absence of a CFO. Key responsibilities include:- Capital raise and investor relations, completed US$10M Series B in 2019 as the co-lead liaison for investors with the CEO, pitching, owning the data room and associated forecasts, pitch decks and collateral.- Commenced US$70M Series C with a top-tier global investment bank prior to my sabbatical. Project was disrupted & delayed due to COVID and closed in 2021.- Distributing bi-annual budgets for the board- Establishing company and department KPIs across the business through consultative analysis- Managing resourcing planning (we have doubled headcount in the last 12 months)- Working with the founders and executives on strategic planning

I had been introduced to early-stage beauty marketplace, Glamazon by their institutional investors following a seed-bridge round.Founded in 2014, Glamazon operated Australia's largest mobile beauty marketplace, with hundreds of freelance stylists engaged to the platform and accepting at-home beauty appointments daily. The business had made promising traction with a strong brand but needed operational, financial and marketplace expertise to scale. I was hired as a GM.With limited resources, this was one of the most challenging projects to date, requiring a combination of leadership and hands-on multi-disciplinary work with broad and undefined scope. The role stretched every aspect of the business, including product and marketing.Since joining in January 2018 we tripled our monthly GMV, reduced unfulfillment rates by ~40%, stabilised legacy tech and maintained a sensible cash-burn. Whilst progress was promising, I decided to leave after 9 months to pursue interests outside early-stage ventures.UPDATE: In late 2019, Urban Company (an Indian e-commerce conglomerate) bought Glamazon's assets to accelerate their launch into the Australian home services market which includes the home beauty vertical.The beauty marketplace model (at-home or salon) remains a challenge (and opportunity) globally. Australia has no clear leader, Rocket Internet has exited all markets including South-East Asia, and well-funded (Series B+) ventures in the UK and US are yet to demonstrate longevity or sustainable marketplace growth.

Berlin, De

Vaniday is an international beauty and wellness B2B2C business, which ran Australia's largest salon bookings marketplace and also licenced a bookings management SaaS to salons and spas. The business was operating in Australia from 2015 with limited success and I was hired to streamline operations, localize our product & marketing and restore growth to secure the next round of funding.Established in 2015 having raised €15m globally, the company was backed by Rocket Internet and was operating in Singapore, United Arab Emirates and Australia with support services in Germany at the commencement of my tenure. Unfortunately seeing accelerated traction in the South East Asian market, the business underwent a major transformation only weeks into my tenure resulting in the planned closure of the Australian, UAE and German offices to consolidate resources to Singapore.In the following months we ran the business as BAU whilst negotiating a deal to sell off the Australian assets to a local e-Commerce conglomerate and eventually winding down operations in Australia.UPDATE: Vaniday continued to operate in Singapore until it announced it's closure in late-2019, unfortunately ending the Rocket Internet franchise which once operated marketplaces in Australia, Italy, UAE, Russia and Brazil.

London, Gb

I relocated to Singapore in 2017 to help companies developing world-class technologies reduce their financial risk by leveraging government assistance such as tax incentives and grant funding.This multi-disciplinary role required interpreting cutting edge technology across multiple industries and R&D related financial and tax matters such as structuring, transfer pricing and intellectual property.

London, Gb

I moved to the EY Research and Development Incentives team to help businesses access government schemes to encourage innovation and growth. This included working frequently from Brisbane’s leading tech start-up incubator (RiverCityLabs) to assist start-ups in understanding the various incentives available to them.Key highlights include:- Building the firms client portfolio with numerous Brisbane-based start-up’s- Introducing the firm to two of Brisbane's start-up communities, LittleTokyoTwo and FireStation101. This involves being a primary point of contact between both parties in addition to RiverCityLabs.- Representing EY and presenting at the 2016 Brisbane Cancer Conference during the Commercialisation panel (my topic was on R&D Tax and ESIC Investor Incentives)- Running presentations at the Johnson & Johnson / QUT Innovation facility, FireStation101 Innovation Hub and LittleTokyoTwo on the topics of R&D Tax Incentives, Government Grants and ESIC Investor Incentives.Day to day:- Managing and building client relationships- Analysing complicated technical project information to determine suitability for government incentives- Analysing financial statements to determine expenditure incurred towards specific projects- Preparing advice in relation to the above

Fortitude Valley, Queensland, Au

I started my post-graduate career as an in-house engineer at Aurizon (ASX:AZJ), which spanned technical and non-technical roles between Brisbane and Central Queensland. Key highlights include: -Peer voted on the Graduate Executive with the responsibility of building the internal and external Aurizon community through corporate events, fund raisers and charities.- Diversity Champion within Aurizon, voluntarily running diversity workshops throughout the organisation as an initiative to drive cultural change.- Working within the enterprise-wide innovation team (EDGE) on projects such as the company innovation pipeline, R&D register, development of a novel level-crossing for improved safety and assisting in the commercialisation of an automated wear detection system.- Working in various technical roles spanning high level wagon design, field maintenance and operations. Projects varied from month to month and involved designing safety modifications to freight locomotives, capturing wear data and performing analytics to determine wear rates and developing maintenance strategies to improve the reliability of rollingstock equipment.