Kate Kendall

Founder & CEO of @the-fetch. Writer. Led growth, digital media and community teams. BSc (Biotechnology), MB (Marketing).

Michael Shimmins

Founder and CEO of @lexim.

Jeremy Howard

Now: Singularity University; Previous: President / Chief Scientist @kaggle; Founder @FastMail (sold to Opera) and @ODG (sold to Choicepoint). Worked @McKinsey.
http://jhoward.fastmail.fm

Ben Welch-bolen

CEO/Founder of World Wide Web Hosting. Life long entrepreneur and learning to love management. 100+ remote team running 24/7 around the world.

Ivan Vanderbyl

CTO @app-io. Founded @crashlog & @testpilot • Worked at @orionvm
http://ivanvanderbyl.github.com

Tom Howard

Co-founder, @adioso. Product-designer, recruiter, hacker, writer, traveller.
http://tomhoward.co

Fenn Bailey

Co-founder & architect of @adioso. Hacker. Traveler.
http://fennb.com/

Diesel Laws

Founder & Designer @app-io. Passionate about great UI & UX.
http://diesellaws.com/

Chris Nolet

Founder @app-io • Worked at @skm-consulting, @papercloud • Studied at @university-of-melbourne, @rmit-university

Ben Hamey

Great Ape @ @bonobo. Designer of multiple #1 apps. I'm all about smashing business, design and technology into a delicious concoction.
http://www.bonobolabs.com/blog

Chris Dahl

BDM at Pin Payments, Co-founder of Nitro. Software/Product Professional with technical background.

Tim Fung

Founder and CEO @airtasker-1 • Worked at @amaysim, @macquarie-bank • Studied at @university-of-new-south-wales (B. Comm, marketing)
http://blog.airtasker.com

Andrew Birt

Co-founded @lifx and @angelcube. Mentor @500Startups.
http://andrewbirt.com

Mike Rhodes

Founded WebSavvy - Visual SEM Management

Glen Maddern

Founder of @goodfilms. Data-crunching, high-scaling background. Film-lover.

Gregory Green

Studied at @melbourne-business-school School, @university-of-evansville, 4 startups under the belt, founder of a new one on the go. Entrepreneur and getter of done.

Edward Dowling

Founder & CEO @app-io. Always creating awesome products and teams that are never boring and always exciting.

Chris Hitchen

Founder: AudienceTV.net, Getprice.com.au

M Asif Rahman

Founder CEO at A. R. Communications. Web Industry and Optimization Expert. Visionary Entrepreneur and Investor.
http://asif.im

Blake Hutchison

Founder of Good44 (pre. AgendaSelects). Previous start-up experience as Head of BD at VC backed NileGuide. Led a team of 6 as the Director BD at Lonely Planet.

Antony McGregor Dey

CMO @liveexercise | Founder @link-me-2 | Online Marketing | Aussie Entrepreneur | I'm from the internet

Leslie Barry

Founding Partner of @getviable Founded & successful exit of @exertrack, acquired by 1st round @techstars company, Gyminee, now DailyBurn.
http://www.getviable.com/?page_id=13

Anita Eglitis

Co-Founder at Techseeder Pty Ltd

Simon Jones

Founder of @promisepay. 5th Startup. Helped build a technology platform for mortgage transactions that exceeded $30 billion p/a. Two years ago achieved an MBA.

Dinesh George

Associate @adventure-capital. Lead organiser of Startup Weekend Australia.
http://tumblr.com/dineshgeorge

Andrew Armstrong

Founder @121cast | Experienced Software and Web Developer (mobile, front/back-end, servers), different, passionate, driven | Studied at @university-of-melbourne

Darren J Pollard

Mobile. Social. Gaming. Monetization. Been around long enough to know how to use a DOS shell. 5 startups. One $25M exit. Well traveled Australian. Connected.

Chris Rickard

Co-founder, thinker, & hacker at Setkick. Previously tech lead at @portable, speaker & judge at Hong Kong mobile film festival 2011.
http://debugging.me

Sean Kelly

Founder CEO of @corus. Collaboration startup. Technologist.
http://blog.corus-share.com/2010/06/team-profile-1/

Michael Giles

Follow me on Twitter

David Truong

Head of Business Development @app-io, Founder @broccol-e-games. Comp Sci and Law degrees from @flinders-university-of-south-australia
http://blog.feedmybrain.info

Ash Conway

Founder Make'n Movies, Smokin Apps (sold). Working on 5th venture. 1st company at 19. Internet entrepreneur Dell, BusinessObjects, SAP, Cisco, IronPort. Designer by trade.
http://ashconway.com

Andrew Apostola

Co-founder of @portable and CTO of new luxury lifestyle service @svbscription.
http://portable.tv

Scott Handsaker

Co-founder and CEO of @eventarc and @attendly

Cris Pearson

CEO & Product/graphic/UI/UX designer @ Skitch.com Prior to Skitch: Co-founded & ran plasq. Designed UI for Award winning software, Comic Life.
http://atariboy.com

Hillan Klein

CEO & Co-founder at Budge

Jie Zhou

Front-end engineer @kinnek • Former tech attorney @fenwick-and-west with a penchant for coding • Studied at @yale-university, @university-of-california-berkeley

Ben Sze

Founder @tutor-on-demand • Past high school tutor • Worked @goldman-sachs @kpmg • Volunteer at Baan Dada • Studied @university-of-melbourne & CFA Institute

James Crawford

Co-Founder @beanhunter

Neil Walter

Founder Of @random-ramble, Online Games Consulting Company. Looking to expand consulting business to over 100 clients in 2012!
http://www.neilwalter.me

Pete Meehan

Founder/CEO of CafePeople. Product guy, Aussie entrepreneur in the Valley behind a platform for coffee lovers to share interests, Social TV, meet amazing people
http://petemeehan.com

Matt Devlin

Founder noWorriesHire; Started first Civil Construction Company 3 years ago. B.E. Civil Engineer. Strong industry background, 15 years plus.

Tri Truong

CEO, Tru-e Technology and Media Services INC.

Ivan Lim

Head of Marketing @tweaky-com • Founder of Vinspi • @angelcube-2 class of 2012 • Worked at OZHut, 69th Fastest Growing Australian Startup 2011
http://www.ivanmelvin.com/

Chris Joannou

Founder @perceptar, @StartupMelb • Melbourne Director @startup-grind Studied at @swinburne-university "Top 50 Australian Startup Influencers"- Shoestring Startups
http://www.startupmelbourne.com

Keith Pitt

Founder, Buildbox • Worked at @pin-payments, @the-frontier-group @desks-near-me-1

Kunal Kalro

Founder @outtrippin. Speaks 4 languages. Lived on 4 continents. 2 time travel-tech entrepreneur. Former mgmt consultant. Travel nerd with a business background.
http://kckal.tumblr.com

Alex John

Changing the way people buy media. Experience: Sara Lee, Roche, L'Oreal, Simplot, KPMG Web MAD since '93

Stephanie Andrews

Founder @fabbit • Worked at @pixar, @university-of-washington-1 • Studied at @university-of-washington, @school-of-the-art-institute-of-chicago

Hany Pham

Co-founder @onetouch. Former finance guy turned tech entrepreneur
http://hanypham.tumblr.com

Shaun Johnson

João Valente

Founder & CTO @outtrippin. Previously Tech-Lead at schooools.com and Project Manager / Information Architect at doist.io. Bridging the gap between computers and people.
http://joaovalente.com/blog

Jordan Green

Founder @melbourne-angels-inc, @australian-association-of-angel-investors-ltd, successful VC, Angel and serial entrepreneur MBS (MBA) BEng (Electronics) RMIT

Peter Murray

CTO and co-founder of Tweaky.com; former Consultant Developer at ThoughtWorks

Justin Re

Founder @ourcast

Ned Dwyer

CEO of Tweaky.com.

James Spittal

Digital Marketing. PHP Programmer. Sales/Biz Dev guy. Online Marketing and #leanstartup background. Studied at @rmit-university, @swinburne-university.

Harprem Doowa

Co-Founder & COO @whatsnew, Strong business background (Analyst and Broker @FNSYRUS), Monash University BBC, Sasin University MBA

Ben Flavel

Co-founder and CEO at CheckinLine, MBA (Entrepreneurship and Innovation), also founded innovation consultancy NeoCogs.
http://www.neocogs.com.au/blog

David Wei

Founder/MD of @venuemob. Previously started @crowdmass, one of Australia's first group-buying sites and acquired by @groupon in 2011.

Nick Foster

Founder and COO of Cinergix and Creately. Love being independent and an entrepreneur. Always looking to grow and zoom. Master of IT.

Bao-Minh Tran-Vo

Passionate about sports and technology. Founder of @c8apps-1.

Matthew Charles

Director | Visionary | Architect | Human

Bart Macdonald

Founder Notesy • Worked at @lend-lease • Studied at @macquarie-university

Juliana Yoon

Founder of fLinked (exclusive social club soon to be online). Worked in business/corporate strategy @anz-banking-group @accenture and @pwc-1.

Aron Steg

Founder @zaq, @explainers-1, @sms-diagnostics, @bulksms, @sms-central, @sniip, @streetwyse • BEng (Software) from The @university-of-melbourne

Phoebe Yu

CEO & Founder of @ettitude. Serial entrepreneur. eCommerce, Digital marketing
http://blog.ettitude.com/

Kelsey Schwenk

Founder of Atlasa. Strong digital strategy background through agency work (Huge, Flint, Frog Design). Wharton UG'06. Has stepped foot on all 7 continents.
http://atlasablog.tumblr.com

Caine Wanjau

Co-founder of FlashCast. Founder member of the *iHub_ Robotics Initiative, worked in Banking, studied at Strathmore University and Monash University

David Chung

Founder & CEO of etaskr - the task marketplace for enterprise. AngelCube (accelerator) 2013 startup. Enterprise background, KPMG. BCom/LLB.
http://www.etaskr.com/blog

Ray Hilton

Founder @wirestorm, @hood, @emit • Worked at @sensis, @australia-post, @smesh, @heyday • Studied at @university-college-london, @open-university-london
http://rayh.com.au

Adam Neumann

Founder of @giftless, Co-founder of @indexmedia. Worked at @iris-data-services. 1st Class Honours in Comp Sci from UWA.
http://noizwaves.tumblr.com

Andrew Ward

Andrew Ward B.Ec (Syd Uni), is the founder and Managing Director of SelfWealth Ltd. 20 years experience in the financial services industry globally
http://www.selfwealth.com.au/blog

Marissa Di Pasquale

CEO@Cashtivity. 3rd major product build and 2nd startup. Strong operational & business background, lawyer & grad scientist. Launched e-procurement venture for a telco during web1.0 days. Ministerial appointment to 2 boards including one in education. Colu

Andrew Coates

Co-founder of @moneytribe, founder @superapps . Co-founded AgentArts (acquired by Fast Search). Strategy consultant at Accenture. Hack musician.
http://www.moneytribe.com.au/category/blog/

Mat Holroyd

Lead engineer at @the-fetch and web developer experienced in search, virtual currencies, gaming, languages, travel and disruptive technologies. BEng (Software).

Peter Chapman

Founder @ediply, MA Grad • @ebs-oestrich-winkel, @hku @rmit-university. Varied Business background. Globally orientated.

Ryan St. James

Co-founded @visionary-igaming, a live online casino provider, in 2008.

Jason Palmer

Project Manager University of NSW Faculty of Engineering Web Project. Founder & CEO @life-s-project

Lachlan Donald

Web technologist, CTO of @99designs, San Francisco.

Nicholas Birrell

Entrepreneur & Investor

Peter Hare

Director at @beanhunter; 1st employee at TinyMe.com; Developer.

Phill Deresa

Tech Consultant • Works at @accenture • Studied at @monash-university #teamSaaS

Artur Daylidonis

Founder at Amectronix. BBA. Developed social network & launched iOS games to Top-3. Started first organisation at 13.
http://www.daylidonis.com

Adam Ellison

Founder @modbot , @lkbk-com • Worked at @general-motors • Studied at @swinburne-university, @rmit-university

Alon Tamir

Founder & Director at StudioProper - boutique product design studio

Stuart McGill

Marketer, incl via social media. 3 startups over 20 yrs. Specialised in profit sharing, sustainability, selling, industrial relations. PhD (Econ). Law degree.
http://www.profitsharz.com

Cyril Gaillard

CEO and founder of Fyrebox, former co-founder of Broccol-e-games, founder of Melvia. Studied at INSA, RIT. Worked at ALTRAN, RIT, EADS, GE.

James McQueen

Founder Atlas Capital • Studied at @melbourne-business-school, @university-of-melbourne

Cinnamon Pollard

Studied at @university-of-sydney, @university-of-technology-sydney
http://cinnamonpollard.com/blog/

Jenny MacKinnon

Writer, Editor, Publisher, Entrepreneur. Founder, Report Machine: http://reportmachine.com.au Twitter @ReportMachine Swin MEI, UniMelb IP Law, RMIT Journalism

Denver Dale

Worked at @goldman-sachs • Studied at @oxford-university, @university-of-queensland

Marc Harrison

CEO and Founder of Listium. Successful fund manager who left to follow the dream of building a startup. A generalist, with a passion for constantly learning.
http://www.marcharrison.net

Joel Macdonald

CEO of Liquorun. 3rd start up out of high school. Ex-AFL footballer. Extensive commercial experience in start ups, investment & sales. B.Bus at Monash University

Lucas Taulealeausumai

Founder of @choosly and an innovative innovator.

Dallas Krueger

Lover of life and successful learner. Businessman, Human Behaviorist, Big Dreamer and avid hack sacker.
http://dallasmkrueger.tumblr.com/

Andrew Hempel

Courtney DeWitt

http://thisiscourtneyd.tumblr.com

Scott Grierson

Founder of AquaTrophic - experience in algae biotech, consulting engineering, research commercialisation and sustainability, with a PhD in biomass processing.

Anthony Curtin

Founder @propdocs, @melbourne-christmas-trees • Worked at @ashurst, @effective-measure-international

George Radman

Founder cAlert • Worked at @ibm, @telstra @datacom • Studied at @Deakin @Swinburne University of Technology

Vaughn Hew

Co-Founder @whogotstuff. Developer (Elec Engineering, Comp Sci, Systems Engineering, Cyber Security). Street photography, Taichi, cooking.
http://blog.whogotstuff.com

Celso Prado

COO fanfuel

Chen Wang

Founder foodinger • Worked at @jp-morgan • Studied at @university-of-new-south-wales

Alexander Haggerty

Entrepreneur with an interest in Product Development, eCommerce and Digital Strategy.

Mark Mansour

Get the Story
http://agilebench.com/blog

Albert Yang

Founder & CEO at JASU

Tessa Herd Court

CEO & Founder IntelligenceBank. Profitable & Scalable. Exec Team @ Hitwise with successful exit. Springboard Enterprises Alum.
http://www.intelligencebank.com/blog

Bryan Eddy

Co Founder, Exective Producer at BoxMedia Network

David Mclay

Founder & CEO of @xsrpm Studing Business advertising officially 1 million dollars = 1 share in @xsrpm
http://direct.xsrpm.com

Alan Dee

Founder @ 2Crates. 15 years IT industry; Masters in Entrepreneurship (Swinburne)
http://deealpost.blogspot.com

Ilavenil A

Founder @zaq, @Mobileroo, @Delux, @gtext

Kate Dinon

co-founded @pearlPRAUS and @dainesinger. strategy director for @portable

Michael Pearson

CTO@CloudSpark, founder of BipIO, distributed system specialist with an e-commerce background. I love complex systems and building product.

Ben

Co-founder of Lexim

Jerrold Poh

Cofounder and CTO of @coinjar
http://twicetwice.net

David Micallef

Cofounder and Developer of StomachSmart; Studied at @swinburne-university Uni though still learning everyday.

Nicholas Firth-McCoy

http://streaming.nfm.id.au

Lauren Rielly

http://EntrepreneurNews.com.au

Cameron Rambert

Digital strategy and growth specialist. Agency Marketer working with tier 1 brands for more than 7 years and founder of Melbourne based tech incubator, GENIAUS.
http://www.cameronrambert.com

Rahul Jhaveri

Founder DiscoverMe - your episodes of talent

Paul Pallaghy

CEO/Founder in|out. Inventor Voice Logistics System 2012 & world's 1st app store 2002. Systems engineer $1M plant roll-outs. Univ of Melbourne PhD.
http://www.antarapa.com

Mario Moeller

Founder @partystar Function Room Brokerage

John Ngo

Founder @small-epic. Believes in idealism, entrepreneurship, user experience, Ruby, and the ‘Greater Fool’.
http://nonprofiteer.com.au/

Luke

CEO and Founder of Gouniq. Worked at @betfair UK and Betfair AUS in Marketing and Operations roles. Studied at @University of Victoria in Marketing and IT.

Richard Wilson

Founder of MathsPathway. Background in software entrepreneurship, IT and management consulting (LiTMUS Group), joined teaching via Teach for Australia.

Ben Richardson

Aerospace Engineer & Entrepreneur

Jordy Catalano

Co-Founder of Wise Guides. Background in Commerce (Entrepreneurship and Innovation).

Luciano Devoto

Founder/Ex-Director @pocha-leather (Sold), Customer-centred focus passionate about ideas & businesses.

Craig Miller

Founder On The Door • Studied at @university-of-melbourne

Nick Redwood

Entrepreneur taking @seeksolve from inception through design & development to @launch and beyond. Love data & design, form & function and exponential growth.

Josh Stuart

Zoop Founder; former Web Team Lead and Web Strategist at Nitro PDF (Melb and San Francisco); Founded and built killyourstereo.com whilst in University
http://crimsonronin.tumblr.com/

Simon Underwood

eCommerce & Online specialist

Peter Williams

Founder @localz • Worked at @kpmg, @national-australia-bank

Andy Crone

Founder & CXO @yellloh | Strategic Design (Hons) @university-of-otago | UI/UX, Growth, Business Strategy, Beer

Thien Nguyen

Co-founder of Goldspades.

Scott Burgess

Founder & CEO @continu. Previously, Co-Founder @createone.
http://scottburgess.co

Nathan Oliver

Director | Leader | Banker | Human

Jeff Paine

Founder ShutterClass • Works at @pwc-1 • Pro photographer, cinematographer and compulsive problem solver

Oliver Owens

I build things. Sometimes they don't break.

Brian Reaves

With 10+ yrs of digital & software experience, Brian prides himself in product ideation, offering a wide range of disciplines from a mosaic of former positions.

Jon Wellman

Founder & CEO @yellloh • Studied Science (mathematics) @monash-university University • Previous Financial Planner @Plan4Wealth.

Julia Hughan

UX/social media/digital strategy. Studied at @monash-university-1, BA (Honours). Previous at @deloitte-digital. E3 eligible.
http://juliahughan.com

Pan Demosthenous

Technologist, product creator, ex-BSkyB mobile and interactive

Greg Furlong

Founder and Director at @channelpace • Extensive business experience. Worked at @ibm, @lenovo, @toshiba in sales and management positions over 25 years.
http://channelpace.com/perspectives

Brett Allen

SME Business professional with a successful 20+ years track record of profitable small to medium business ownership

Brad Moore

Worked at @moodswing • Studied at @la-trobe-university

Ollie Wallis

Sports trader, founding Director of Limehouse (Australia's fastest growing 3D agency) and investor.

Matthias Peitsch

Studied at @monash-university
http://myopinion.matthiaspeitsch.com

Adrian Grayson-Widarsito

CTO and Founder at Yellloh. Science and Aerospace Engineering, programmer, nerd.
http://adoado.dx.am/

Peter

Entrepreneur since age 15 and equipped with knowledge well beyond my years. I'm the hungry for success entrepreneur that big businesses should be afraid of.

Vuong Ngo

Student & Passionate entrepreneur building trustworthy environment that brings Joy and Satisfaction through collaboration on realizing great idea.

Andrew Cunningham

Founder and CEO at Zarfo People Communities. Working with beta members from over 100 countries around the world is both exciting and challenging!
http://arifromoz.blogspot.com.au/

Bruno Partridge

Founder & CEO of @reach: Whats your poison?.

Daniel Kirkland

nonprofit management, business startups, and developing solution of integrating the whole person with ecological sustainability and organic living.

Reuben So

Bootstrap Entrepreneur and Professional Product Manager. Strong diverse background in both Business Strategy and Software Engineering.

Shane Bardsley

Owner/Organiser of Central Sun Trance Festival 2013, Melbourne, Australia

Rami Jarrar

Founder @grout-2. Experience building web & mobile applications.

Ash Nilkanth

Founder of @hatchvid. Entrepreneur, programmer, realist, industry veteran, MIS.
http://www.nilkanth.com

Zia Word

Full Stack marketer & generalist

Leigh Sherman

Founded @tiip • Work at @telstra-australia • Studied at @university-of-ballarat
http://LeighSherman.com

William Nuyen

Developer, Designer, Business Man

Simon Hoeksma

Founder of babiinet. Entrepreneur and stay at home dad with a strong finance background.

Julian Cassin

Founder RapidFMS. Please visit me at Linked In.
http://clould.com.au/

Lenny Tjoe

Founder of Wink & Winn. Living and working in China for the past 10 years.

Jake Lawton

Lucretia de Jong

Founder WizeOwl, successfully developed and brought to market media technologies contracted internationally by McDonalds, 7eleven. Innovator of media marketing solutions, philanthropy and social responsibility.

Moira Dempsey

Studied at International Learning Centres. Sole Proprietor, Kinesiology Instructor/Consultant. Senior instructor RMT International.

Zuhair Naqvi

Dallas Mayne

Founder @windsale-marketing, @fossil-energy, @Mayne Tank Rentals