Simon Quirk Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Next level legal and reg tech powered by generative AI to make managing regulatory change continuous and easy.Our team uses decades of academic and industry leadership in AI, law and compliance, as well as deep industry understanding and connections, to solve the most pressing compliance issues for corporates and their advisers.Located in Melbourne and London.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Argos is helping superannuation trustees stay on top of complex and dynamic regulatory change.Argos' solution is a platform designed to track, understand and communicate the impacts of regulatory change in a collaborative way and partners with leading industry experts as content contributors.Co-Founder now Board Adviser.

Melbourne, Australia

Fourth Line uses data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI), augmented with human review, to provide the most comprehensive risk management solution available for financial advice compliance.Fourth Line was founded in response to the financial advice issues highlighted by the Banking Royal Commission. Leaders from the financial advice industry, financial advice law and enforcement and AI came together to address those issue and provide peace of mind for financial advice groups.Co-founded the business, pulled together the board and key team members and partners, helped raise capital and acted as interim CTO to lead the build of the AI platform.Co-Founder now Board Adviser.

Melbourne, Australia

Adviser and mentor to the Mills Oakley Legal Tech Accelerator program: the first legal services start-up accelerator in Asia Pacific and one of the first anywhere in the world.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Broad Radio has created Australia's first radio station for women, by women. Broad Radio currently streams live on Facebook and Youtube, featuring conversation about everything from comedy, sport, leadership, politics, health, entertainment and gender equality. Aimed specifically at women over 35, because we want women to live a limitless life, at every stage of life.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Brane encompasses Brane Crowds and Community as a Service, a collection of SaaS tools building community for organisations and brands world wide.

Guest Lecturer in the Masters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the Faculty of Business and Enterprise on strategy, start ups, innovation, leadership and culture.

Melbourne, Australia

Settle Easy is transforming the conveyancing experience.Conveyancing is changing rapidly with the advent of digital settlement but there has still been little change in the steps in the conveyancing process leading up to digital settlement. It's essentially the same as it has been for decades. Settle Easy is using technology to change the way that the entire conveyancing process is conducted so that it is faster, more consistent and, above all, a superior experience for buyers and sellers. Co-founded the business and helped build the team and key partnerships.

Melbourne Area, Australia

Quirk Advisory is an independent advisory firm.Provide solutions in strategy, business model design and innovation to start ups and start up accelerators, professional and financial services firms and senior exec teams in leading corporates and government:*Design and facilitate planning processes and off sites to enable important strategic choices and alignment. *Using my experience in founding and building multiple start ups and accelerator programs, I build and manage corporate innovation programs and manage and mentor accelerators. *Formulate vision, values and strategy and develop comprehensive business and implementation plans, including through the use of the Strategy Fusion system (of which I was a co-founder).*Assist start ups with business model validation and scaling (I sit on a number of start up advisory boards).Client base includes corporates such as Telstra, NAB, ANZ, BASF and MMG Mining, large private companies, all types of professional services firms (including Mills Oakley, a long standing client, that is now the fastest growing law firm in Australia), financial services firms, start ups and start up accelerators through to associations such as Rowing Victoria and Family Business Australia and government departments (such as South East Water).

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Drawing on my experience as a corporate lawyer in leading international firms, as the head of in house legal departments both in Australia and overseas and as a business owner and founder, I advise business owners and founders on commercial matters including: - early stage business- private capital raising- private mergers and acquisitions- commercial agreements.A key point of difference from other lawyers is that as I am also a multiple business owner and founder and strategy consultant so I have been in the shoes of my clients and intimately understand the issues and the outcomes they need. Therefore, I provide holistic business advice rather than just legal advice.

Geelong

I was very proud to be a foundation Director and mentor of Runway, which is building regional start up ecosystems. Runway's accelerators and start up programs are designed to substantially grow the number of successful start-ups launched and scaled in regional Victoria – and act as a major catalyst for transforming the regions into a start-up and technology destination.

Melbourne, Australia

VidVersity transforms online learning.It takes passive video learning and transforms it into the learning medium of the future: interactive video. VidVersity also has the highest levels of security, it tracks learner activity and, above all, learners love it!And because it’s fast and very easy to use, now anyone (not just online experts) can produce interactive video learning and keep it up to date.Co-founded, developed the product and market, raised capital and then sold my stake in 2022

I was Co-Founder aof Strategy Fusion.I managed the development of the solution and business model through the early stages and secured and implemented two $500K rounds of venture capital.I also secured an acquirer for the business and sourced and managed the asset sale of the business in early 2019.Strategy Fusion represents a step change in strategic business planning. Strategy Fusion is the most integrated and comprehensive cloud based software (SaaS) platform to develop marketing, operational, financial or full strategic plans in a fraction of the time and cost than has been possible using traditional approaches. All this leads to better business outcomes, new revenue streams and deeper, ongoing relationships with customers.Developed by holders of PhDs in business and strategy and experienced executives and entrepreneurs, the Strategy Fusion platform is built on genuine academic rigour and thought leadership in business strategy and embodies a series of unique algorithms that, when applied to real world business situations, build competitive advantage and mitigates risk in the complex and volatile trading environments that businesses now have to negotiate.

Melbourne, Australia

ASX listed wealth advice and management company.During a high growth and scale phase for the company I was responsible for Legal and Compliance and group operations including Finance, Governance, Company Secretarial, Insurance, Strategic Planning, IT, Back Office and HR. Achievements include:*Restructured and consolidated group operations after rapid acquisition phase and built high performance operational teams and capability to support growth.*Implemented strategic planning and governance processes with Board and across the company. *Developed industry leading culture and staff engagement levels.*Managed takeover of Snowball by Shadforth Financial Group.

Melbourne, Australia

Short term contract appointment upon return to Australia from London to manage the legal and corporate aspects of a takeover.

London, United Kingdom

Established and quickly scaled a high performing in house legal function to support a period of extreme growth, consolidation and moving form NASDAQ to Wall St listing. Achievements include:* Legal was most respected team at Getty Images based on surveys on internal service functions.* European In House Team of the Year finalist.* Managed a series of key acquisitions and Wall St listing requirements. * Identified that when pursuing parties that infringe image licence terms is a sales opportunity and set up a team that now generates several million USD annually.

Melbourne, Australia And London, United Kingdom

Built from inception an house legal function that was recognised by internal awards as a leading department. Also managed the risk and insurance program.

Melbourne, Australia

Corporate, commercial, mergers & acquisitions and private equity

Melbourne, Australia

Corporate, commercial, mergers & acquisitions and private equity

Bachelor Of Laws - Llb, Major In Commercial Law

Activities and Societies: Rowing Club (Club Captain) Full Blue for Rowing PC Dane Award for Excellence in Sport and Academics

Bachelor Of Arts, Double Major In Psychology And Biology

Activities and Societies: Rowing Club (Club Captain) Full Blue for Rowing PC Dane Award for Excellence in Sport and Academics

Graduate Diploma Of Applied Finance, (Corporate Finance)

Comapny Secretarial Practice (Rio Tinto Prize For Top Student)

Foreign Lawyers Bar Exam (Distinction), Law, Distinction

Education record

Activities and Societies: Captain of Boats, School Officer