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Nicholas Bernhardt, Managing Director
Company » GreenBizCheck
Panel » Green/Clean/In Between
Nicholas Bernhardt has held senior management positions at Nomura Securities, Standard Chartered Bank & Ameco Financial Services. He has gained extensive experience in Private Banking, Asset Management & Investment Banking in the financial centres Zurich, Tokyo, London and Hong Kong. He has also specialised in Project Management, M&A and consultancy work both in Australia and overseas.
Nicholas holds an MBA from Zurich University. He is very concerned about the ramifications of climate change and wants to apply his business skills, experience and network to do something about this potentially devastating problem.
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Rod Bourchier, Director - Founder
Company » H2Oasis Energy Pty Ltd
Panel » Green/Clean/In Between
Rob Bourchier was involved in wine consultancy and project management for over 20 years. He commenced his career under Max Schubert (Grange). Rod was Chief Winemaker for Yalumba from 1974 -1985.
Rod invented the designs that are being developed by H2Oe. Rod has an interest in 'processing' the crops produced via the irrigation matting systems - using unique production systems.
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Simon Burke, Managing Director
Company » IPscape
Panel » SaaS/In the Cloud
Simon Burke is currently the CEO of IPscape Pty Ltd, a Sydney company he co-founded in 2005. Simon was previously responsible for British Telecom's Hosted IP Contact Centre business in Asia where his team designed and installed 100's of call centre deployments. His career experience includes Deloitte Australia, Mercer Strategy Consulting (London), a founder of Deloitte & Touche in Romania and VP,Europe for Extraprise (CRM strategy). Simon is a graduate of the London Business School MBA programme and an Australian qualified Chartered Accountant.
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Rebekah Campbell, CEO
Company » Posse holdings Pty Ltd
Panel » Consumer Web
Rebekah Campbell is one of the Australian music industry's best known names - or best kept secrets. Born in Scotland and raised in New Zealand, Rebeckah enrolled at Victoria University Wellington whilst in Year 11 at high school to complete a degree in Politics and Maori Language.
After successfully turning around The Radio Network (TRN), in Auckland, to a profitable radio station at age twenty, Rebekah headed for Australia to work for the Grant Thomas Management agency in Sydney - and within three months had signed a little-known Brisbane band, 'george'. Fortuitously, Rebekah met Australian music industry legend John Woodruff at an event to celebrate george's number 1 album debut. John encouraged her to launch her own management company and offered her support, a loan and a free office to help her get started. Within a few weeks of establishing Scorpio Music, Rebekah discovered and signed the company's first client - the youthful, Evermore. Scorpio Music is now one of Australia's largest music management companies, with a reputation for innovation, hard work and a high strike rate of hits.
In 2007, while promoting a major tour for Evermore, Rebekah encountered a problem when ticket sales to the band's Perth show flagged. She decided to ask the band's Perth fans if they'd become promoters of the Evermore show at school or university, offering to pay commissions for tickets sold. It worked. The result? A sold out show and a lot of empowered young fans who now felt they were part of the music business.
And the idea arose - could there be an internet version of this, selling tickets on a secure website?
From this initial thought, Posse.com was born.
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Simon Carlile, CTO
Company » Personal Audio Pty Ltd
Panel » Digital Media
Simon Carlile is a founder and CTO of Personal Audio Pty Ltd, established in 2007 to develop a range of technologies around high fidelity 3D audio using headphones. Prior to that, Simon was a founder (2004) and currently Chair of the Board of VAST Audio which has developed innovative technologies for the hearing aids currently undergoing clinical testing with some of the world's largest hearing aid companies. Simon also holds an academic appointment in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney and leads a high profile research team in the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory.
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Ed Catherwood, CEO
Company » HEARD Systems Pty Ltd
Panel » Green/Clean/In Between
Ed Catherwood commenced as CEO for HEARD Systems Pty Ltd in January 2008. Ed has a degree in agricultural science from Massey University, and considerable experience in Sales, Marketing, Business Development, and General Management in multi-national agribusiness and FMCG firms, including NZ's leading livestock feeds company NRM, Heinz-Watties Ltd, and agritech manufacturer Tru-Test. In 2003 NRM won the Supreme NZ Marketing Award for the most successful launch of a new product. More recently Ed was General Manager of veterinary pharmaceutical company Parnell Laboratories (NZ).
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Winston Chen, Chief Executive Officer
Company » Angusta Systems Pty Limited
Panel » SaaS/In the Cloud
Winston Chen is CEO of Angusta Systems. Prior to this, Winston was executive responsible for Cash Operations at the Commonwealth Bank with over 1000 branches, 2000 remote ATMs and over 60 processing centres. From his time there, he identified cash optimisation routine problems that players across the industry were all similarly facing the world over.
During the transition period following wholesale cash deregulation, he was also on the industry working party for the Reserve Bank that crafted the deed for regulating the retail bank cash-pool ownership in cash centres, and was also key architect of the note fitness penalty / incentive regime.
Winston has also served the financial services industry in strategy for over 15 years, beginning his career with Accenture as a management consultant. He holds a B. Electrical Engineering (IIT Chicago) and MBA (AGSM).
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Matt Clarke, Managing Director
Company » expanz Pty Ltd
Panel » Meeting the needs of the enterprise
Matt Clarke has 14 years experience in the sales and marketing industry and 10 years of those have been in technology specifically. Prior to starting Expanz, Matt started and operated a boutique beverage distribution company which was acquired by a larger publicly listed beverage company. Previously he held senior sales and marketing roles with Premiere Global Services, where he was the first person globally to build a successful channel business which turned over $18M+ in 4 years, and Cardinal Health, where upon graduating from University, he was responsible for all sales in the South Island of New Zealand. Matt has a keen understanding of the Australasian technology and FMCG markets, as well as experience starting, growing and selling a business. A keen sportsman, Matt holds a University Sports Blue from Canterbury University and has captained his country at squash and triathlon.
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Andrew Coppin, Founder and CEO
Company » PhotoArtGallery.com
Panel » Consumer Web
Andrew Coppin is the founding Director of PhotoArtGallery.com and is involved at all levels of its day to day operation and development. He has an array of experience in the financial markets, management and business development.
Whilst establishing and running numerous successful small business operations in the past, he has spent the last 15 years working as a financial Adviser and in Executive Management teams in some of Australia's leading financial services firms (Merrill Lynch, Bell Potter, Patersons). His management experience in small and large enterprises in the Maritime, Hospitality, Finance and Technology sectors covers areas as diverse as start-up, business strategy and development, marketing, analysis and operations.
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Didier Elzinga, CEO/Founder
Company » Culture Amp Pty Ltd
Panel » Meeting the needs of the enterprise
Prior to Culture Amp, Didier Elzinga spent 14 years in film visual effects at world leading visual effects company Rising Sun Pictures (RSP) as a developer, artist, supervisor and finally 5 years as CEO. He is a co-founder of visual software company Rising Sun Research (RSR) [awarded Anthill Cool Company of the Year 2007] and Non Executive Director for RSP, Slingsby Theatre Company, Brink Productions and The Atlassian Foundation. He speaks regularly on innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship.
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Jason Hopkins, Director
Company » Azure Energy
Panel » Green/Clean/In Between
Jason Hopkins is the Director of Azure Energy and holds a degree in Applied Physics and also has an MBA.
Jason's previous experience includes helping to start Dyesol, which has now become a company in the PV industry worth $111million. Jason was also responsible for scaling up production of Dye sensitized solar cells from cm^2 at 100's of m^2.
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Ralf Huuck, CTO & Founder
Company » Red Lizard Software
Panel » Meeting the needs of the enterprise
Dr Ralf Huuck has been leading the research and development of the underlying Goanna technology at NICTA, for four years. He has been responsible for transforming a unique idea into a new product.
In his earlier career, Ralf completed his PhD at the University of Kiel in the area of Software Technology. Although starting out as a theoretical computer scientist, he has been a vivid proponent of realistic applications and solving problems that matter in the real world and carrying out the idea in several projects funded by the German government and the European Union. Ralf has held several visiting researchers appointments in France, Australia, Japan and Hong Kong. He is a published author in more than 30 scientific proceedings, and has been a speaker at dozens of international conferences.
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Evan Jones, CEO
Company » 360desktop Pty Ltd
Panel » Digital Media
Evan Jones has spent his working life driving successful technology commercialisation and start-ups across Asia-Pacific, US and Europe - within markets that include manufacturing, enterprise software, 3D immersive photography, virtual tour software and a range of internet technologies.
Prior to 360desktop, as founder of IPIX in Australia, and later as co-founder and CEO of ChannelVR (www.360dof.com), Evan has driven the commercialisation of the virtual tour software market both within Australia and internationally.
Evan sits on the board and advisory board of several emerging technology companies and holds an honors degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA, both from Australia's Monash University.
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David Keane, CEO/MD
Company » BigTinCan Pty Ltd
Panel » Mobile Communications
David Keane has 20 years experience in the IT industry, specialising in the Telco sector. David has started a number of businesses including Xylan - as Regional Manager South-East Asia; Quadtel Asia - a networking and services provider based in Singapore; Veritel Wireless - grew to be Australia's largest wireless broadband provider - David sold the business to Big Air Group Ltd as part of an ASX listing; Avendi Pty Ltd - a voice and data sales and services company, and now Big Tin Can.
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Antony McGregor Dey, CEO
Company » QMCodes
Panel » Mobile Communications
Antony McGregor Dey is a recognised pioneer and leader in the Australian mobile industry. With over 10 years experience in mobile he sits on the advisory committee for the state governments Mobility Vic industry cluster, is an advisor to the Mobile Enterprise Growth Alliance and is a founder of Mobile Monday Melbourne. Antony was also listed in Smart Company's "Hot 30 under 30".
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Geoff McQueen, Managing Director
Company » Hiive Systems
Panel » Meeting the needs of the enterprise
Geoff McQueen is the founder and Managing Director of Hiive Systems. Spun out in late 2008 from his first venture, the Google Technology Partner Internetrix, Hiive Systems is growing rapidly thanks to the demand for Affinity, its web-based client and service tracking application product.
Outside his work interests, Geoff has just completed his MBA, and is a qualified pilot. Geoff is also on the Board of the Wollongong Hawks, the Illawarra ICT Cluster, Regional Development Australia, and is heavily involved in technology industry initiatives such as CeBIT, Silicon Beach Australia and Startup Camp events.
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Sasha Merzliakov, Partner & Business Director
Company » DDX.com.au
Panel » Digital Media
Sasha Merzliakov is co-founder and business director for DDX, a specialist rich internet applications development firm based in Sydney Australia who are behind the GLU Platform.
Sasha has been responsible for the Business Development and Account Management of more than 500+ interactive, rich internet application and digital projects across, Asia-Pacific, Europe and the United States over 6 years since DDX's launch in 2003.
Sasha previously worked in financial services, e-learning, and printing industries before moving into interactive media, and has experience across both production and management roles, providing him with a strong customer relationship and solutions based approach to business.
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Bob Quodling, CEO
Company » Simmersion
Panel » Saas/In the Cloud
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Slade Sherman, CEO and Founder
Company » Myzerr Pty Limited
Panel » Consumer Web
Slade Sherman is the CEO and Founder of Myzerr.com. Slade is co-founder and previous Head of Marketing and Strategy for The Rewards Factory, one of Australia's largest full service membership, loyalty, reward and incentive marketing companies. He is responsible for developing My Rewards, an Australian membership discount program with over 1,000,000 members. Slade has specialist skills in Marketing Strategy, Membership and Loyalty, Small Business Marketing, Web2.0, SEO and Mobile Media.
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Andrew Simms, Founder
Company » Tagmotion
Panel » SaaS/In the Cloud
Andrew Simms is the Founder & CEO of Tagmotion. Andrew self-funded the acquisition of the IP from previous partners and then upgraded the prototype (built previously with $250K Telstra grant) to a web app. He won a COMET grant and established the online video stock market report, JV. The patent for this is pending in US & Australia.
Andrew's previous experience includes; Marketing Communications Manager - Digital Equipment Corp, Toshiba; Founder of integrated marketing agency - da Vinci Marketing Solutions; Account Executive & Account Director - McCann Erickson, DDB, Magnus Nankervis & Curl for which clients included Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, IBM in Adelaide, Bangkok and Sydney.
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Richard Slatter, General Manager
Company » Wotnews Pty Ltd - We Are Hunted
Panel » Digital Media
Richard Slatter is General Manager of Wotnews and WeAreHunted. He has 15 years experience working across web, IT and advertising starting out in 1995 as a designer for a small games developer in Vancouver, backed by EA, and working through the dotCom years as GM of Brisbane-based web agency, f5. Prior to his current role, he was a senior manager at Deloitte's Online Practice.
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Simon van Wyk, Managing Director
Company » Regional Media Networks
Panel » Consumer Web
Simon van Wyk has been in the interactive communications business for 16 years and is founder of HotHouse, OurPatch and Zazoo.
Simon has been involved with web consulting and strategy for many of Australia's biggest organisations. Simon orchestrated McDonalds and Coca-Cola's first websites in Australia and has engineered Austrade's internet debut. He has also led the team that built Telstra BigPond, and has created original and innovative ideas for a range of businesses including Vodafone, Deloittes, sanofi-aventis, Optus and eBay. He is currently strategically involved in developing original and innovative ideas for companies like Toyota, News Ltd, MYOB and HCF.
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Frank Will, CEO
Company » Ino8 Pty Ltd
Panel » Green/Clean/In Between
CEO and founder Frank Will (MBA, MSc), has over 18 years experience at Ford Motor Company in Australia and Germany. He initiated product changes resulting in lifetime fuel savings of over 150 million litres per year production volume and he improved productivity in several product development organisations by more than 100%. During his management, the Advanced Centre for Automotive Research and Testing (ACART) was established; a collaboration between Ford of Australia and University of Melbourne, supported by the Victorian Government. He is also Senior Lecturer at Deakin University where he is teaching Automotive Drive Trains, Product Development and Heat Transfer.
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