Cogent Ventures invests in technology-centric startups with a goal to affect positive change in the world.Portfolio highlights include:Successful divestment of Chargefox, an electric vehicle charging network and software management platform. Sold July 2022 in a deal valued at $56m to the Australian Motoring Services. Chargefox had become Australia's largest electric vehicle (EV) charging network, powering more than 14 million carbon-free kms and operating more than half a million charging sessions across Australia and New Zealand.Successful exit of Oculo, a connected platform for effective eye care. Sold March 2022 to Revenio, a Finnish health tech company. Continued investment in Fresho, a tech platform automating food ordering and improving efficiency in the multi-billion dollar wholesale fresh food marketplace.

Culture Amp’s HR platform gives organisations rich insight into their people, and the ability to mobilise leaders to drive increased business impact. Responsible for product, design, research, people science and analytics, who in partnership with the CTO and engineering organisation drove Culture Amp’s product strategy and development. Highlights:Significant transformation of the product organisation with focus on strategic planning, ways of working, and renovating the existing product stack - including a full rebuild of the Performance, Goals and Conversations products to facilitate more rapid innovation and drive future revenue growth.Multiple new product lines and strategic partnerships in market including people development and recognition products, with strong early revenue/user growth.

Accountable for strategy, growth and execution across Culture Amp's product portfolio, as a planned succession move by co-founder and former CPO Rod Hamilton.

Co-founder and Board Member at Cogent, a company that develops remarkable software products.Cogent was successfully acquired by Block, Inc in April 2022 (NYSE: SQ).

Cogent is a product development agency that offers a blend of product strategy, design and development to create and also invest in digital businesses. Cogent's customer base included most of Melbourne's top product companies alongside many VC-funded startups. Led Cogent through key early growth stage and rebrand, pivoting from a small software engineering consultancy to a valued product development agency. Accountable for sales, growing a new client base of startups and top-tier enterprises to design and build new products for. Provided product leadership and strategic direction to several early-stage businesses, including a social learning system for Melbourne Business School; a healthcare platform to streamline the creation of systematic reviews; and a building management startup.

Part of executive team that delivered record-setting growth, including audience, revenue, and profit. Pivoted core business model from at-risk product line to sustainable new mix, setting the company up for future growth. Achieved revenue growth in FY21 of 36%.Outpaced #1 competitor audience growth for 17 months straight (Comscore data); increased audience size ~70% and achieved 100m+ users. Renovated product organization, increasing engagement by 60% and building high calibre team. Began to diversify portfolio with key investment in new markets.

Product leadership of the buyer experience for Realtor.com’s enormous consumer audience, to drive frequency, transactions and revenue growth within a highly competitive market.

Responsible for incepting and growing the Leads & Branding business within REA Group, helping real estate agents to promote their services and win new clients. Successfully launched several new products in quick succession, and created incremental lead volume of over 2000% in a new market. This underpinned investor confidence in REA Group's medium term growth. After 24 months, the new leads business processed transactions with a market value of $6B, supporting $100M in agent commissions.

REA Group is a global digital media company who operates several property marketplaces including their flagship, realestate.com.au. Responsible for maximising a $500m+ product line and developing new revenue streams to support company growth. Delivered strong year-over-year revenue growth. Rebuilt stronger team, while nearly doubling employee engagement.

Qantas Hotels is a rapidly growing global hotels and short-stays business within the Qantas Group, powering the hotel booking experience for Qantas and Jetstar travellers.Responsible for leading the product, design and engineering teams that develop and support the hotels platform, driving growth in audience, conversion and revenue.

The World Mosquito Program (https://www.worldmosquitoprogram.org/) is a global initiative helping to protect the world from mosquito-borne disease. It was founded as an international research collaboration led by Monash University and co-funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.Responsible for operational leadership across 350+ research and field staff in global trial sites including Australia, Southeast Asia and South America, to unlock successful and scalable methods for mosquito release.

Consultant to World Vision Australia for Sydney agency Razorfish to drive increased supporter engagement, growing income to help global communities in need.

Sensis operates some of the most well-known directory marketplaces in Australia, including Yellow Pages, White Pages, Citysearch, and mapping site Whereis.com. Led the consumer experience across a range of online, voice, mobile and print products, from daily operations through to strategic development. Primary focus of growing usage and traffic to each product, and aligning this to deliver compelling value to advertisers.

Responsible for the operations and strategic development of online and interactive voice response platforms for New Zealand's largest telecommunications company. Key success measures of increasing volumes of digital sales and service transactions, in turn reducing costs across the business. Leadership of a cross-functional team spanning engineering, content, experience design, marketing, call centre operations and performance analytics.