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Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Urban is Australia's largest online marketplace dedicated to brand new property.In July 2018 we acquired the urban.melbourne platform and merged with our First Chance brand to create Urban.com.au. Since then, Urban has grown from 360k annual users to 3M. Home buyers on average viewed a new property development every 9 seconds in 2021.On the industry side, more than 3500 off the plan developments are being marketed and managed via our back end platform and is used by developers such as Lendlease, Stockland, Mirvac & Frasers.In 2020 we successfully acquired and integrated Property Observer, one of Australia’s leading real estate news websites. This empowered Urban’s users with an archive of 35,000 property articles while tripling the size of our content and editorial insights team.Our mission is to improve the quality of new homes being built in Australia.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

We acquired urban.melbourne in 2018 and relaunched as Urban.com.au - a two-sided marketplace for homebuyers to connect with property developers.Our mission is to improve the quality of new homes being built in Australia.

Abbotsford, Victoria, Au

We acquired online home builder marketplace Homeshelf in December 2023. We have applied our growth model and it’s a rocket on both the consumer and home builders side of the platform.We are excited to help millions of home buyers and thousands of home builders get better outcomes.

Abbotsford, Victoria, Au

I sit on the board and support my business partner and Social Garden’s CEO, George Glover, as he leads the business through our next phase of growth.

Abbotsford, Victoria, Au

I co-founded Social Garden in 2013 with George Glover & Andrew Archibald. Today I’m proud to lead an exceptional team of 55 strategy execs, social marketers and marketing automation engineers across Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, New York & our distributed teams in SE Asia.At Social Garden we believe marketers have never had a more critical role to play for businesses of all shapes and sizes. We help forward-thinking marketing leaders leverage enterprise marketing automation technology and performance social marketing to scale their revenue and improve their customer's experience.We specialise in the property development and education sectors. Key services include; paid social, search, Australian based phone sales/conversion, content production & distribution, digital design, conversion rate optimization, marketing automation/cloud, CRM design & technical development (specialising in Salesforce.com), systems integration, customer journey design & analytics.Deloitte Tech Fast 50 2016 & 2017JobAdvisor Top 5 Coolest EmployersSnapchat’s 1st Certified Partner In AustraliaFacebook Certified PartnerSalesforce Certified PartnerGoogle Premier Certified PartnerMarketo Certified PartnerWe often work collaboratively with a range of partners (consulting, private equity, creative/agency) to deliver exceptional outcomes for our clients, feel free to get in touch if you want to team up on a project.

Balaclava, Victoria, Au

I’m honoured to be on the board of this incredible charity that is led by Jane Tewson AO CBE and has a tremendous positive impact on the lives of some of the bravest people in our communitiesAbout Igniting Change:We are a purposely small organisation that's passionate about sparking big, positive change with people doing it tough in our communities. We are moved by the humanity and courage of the people we are privileged to work with. We listen, we remain open-minded, we uncover what's hidden from everyday eyes, we're guided by the people who experience the issues, we connect unlikely experts to create new thinking and above all we strive to give a voice to people experiencing injustice and inequality. Solid governance and independent funding enable us to take risks when backing outstanding people and organisations, cutting-edge investments that have a real chance of catalysing social change. We call this 'igniting change' and we love what we do.If you're interested in getting involved with Igniting Change, please don't hesitate to reach out via direct message.

Irving, Texas, Us

I’m a member of the ExCo for YPO Melbourne and am responsible for the mentoring program.

Irving, Texas, Us

YPO is the premier global leadership organization for more than 27,000 chief executives in over 130 countries and the global platform for them to engage, learn and grow. YPO members harness the knowledge, influence and trust of the world’s most influential and innovative business leaders to inspire business, personal, family and community impact.Today, YPO member-run companies, diversified among industries and types of businesses, employ more than 22 million people globally and generate USD9 trillion in annual revenues.

Melbourne, Au

Student Garden is a specialist marketing agency that works with Australia's best Universities, TAFE and private training providers to attract their ideal students to study at their institutions.We deliver marketing strategies, digital advertising, and automation to empower innovative marketing leaders to drive exceptional results.

New York, New York, Us

Social Garden & Snaplistings now CEO, Erica Sachse, completed the acquisition of Snaplistings in 2018.Snaplistings was founded in 2017 and began its life as a NYC millennial-focused real estate and lifestyle media channel on Snapchat and Instagram TV (IGTV). The firm now provides a lead subscription product to connect home buyers with US property development firms.

New York, Ny, Us

Coinformation AI uses advanced machine learning to create proprietary data analysis and insights across the cryptocurrency market. Supporting the founders achieve their goal of helping investors participate successfully in the crypto/blockchain technology market and avoid dud projects.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Gummi 2020 is a luxury pet accessories brand run by Nat Asseraf.At Gummi, a deep understanding exists as to how pets quickly become beloved family members - to the extent that an owner and a pet can, in themselves, create a family. Passionate about the way that dogs enhance our human lives, we're here to deliver dogs all of the elements that enhance theirs. Committed to the legacy Gummi hallmarks of durability, quality and fantastic value and imbued with a set of new hallmarks including community, design and pet wellness - our new collection ‘Parkward Bound’ is just the start of the fun we’ll have!

Sydney, Au

Early stage investor in Australia’s #1 nano gifting fintech platform, Shouta! My job is to support the founders as they build Shouta into one of Australia’s most loved consumer fintech products 🦄

firstchance.com.au is an online marketplace connecting property buyers with our property development network. This business was merged with our acquisition of urban.melbourne and was subsequently rebranded to urban.com.au

Cremorne, Victoria, Au

The Natives is a digital product development and optimisation agency. I invested in the business in 2016 and was a non-exec director for two years and now support the CEO as an advisor.

Working in business development at Arkadin, a global software & communications business. I learnt new skills and was coached by some excellent executives during that time.

Launched BTC/crypto marketplace in October 2012 and was acquired for a small sum shortly after by bitcoin.com.au (now BANXA).

Running music events and pub crawls across New Zealand while studying at University of Otago.

Youpick was a technology startup based out of Wellington, NZ. This company connected graphic designers to businesses via an online marketplace. The business unfortunately didn't make it. The experience taught me some painful but valuable lessons about building companies.

Viaduct was a disruptive point of sale provider.I worked here in the sales team while developing my start up company at the time, youpick.

Bachelor Of Commerce, Marketing

Disruptive Strategy

Education record