Entrepreneur in Melbourne

Kate Kendall

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

Andrew Birt

Co-founded @lifx and @angelcube. Mentor @500Startups.

Jeremy Howard

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

Tom Howard

Co-founder, @adioso. Product-designer, recruiter, hacker, writer, traveller.

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.

Antony McGregor Dey

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

Jordan Green

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

Chris Hitchen

Founder: AudienceTV.net, Getprice.com.au

David Truong

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

Michael Giles

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Diesel Laws

Founder & Designer @app-io. Passionate about great UI & UX.

Ivan Vanderbyl

CTO @app-io. Founded @crashlog & @testpilot • Worked at @orionvm

Leslie Barry

Founding Partner of @getviable Founded & successful exit of @exertrack, acquired by 1st round @techstars company, Gyminee, now DailyBurn.

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.

Ned Dwyer

CEO of Tweaky.com.

Chris Rickard

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

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.

Fenn Bailey

Co-founder & architect of @adioso. Hacker. Traveler.

Andrew Apostola

Co-founder of @portable and CTO of new luxury lifestyle service @svbscription.

Alex John

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

M Asif Rahman

Founder CEO at A. R. Communications. Web Industry and Optimization Expert. Visionary Entrepreneur and Investor.

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.

Dinesh George

Associate @adventure-capital. Lead organiser of Startup Weekend Australia.

Scott Handsaker

Co-founder and CEO of @eventarc and @attendly

Neil Walter

Founder Of @random-ramble, Online Games Consulting Company. Looking to expand consulting business to over 100 clients in 2012!

Chris Nolet

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

Edward Dowling

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

Ben Hamey

Great Ape @ @bonobo. Designer of multiple #1 apps. I'm all about smashing business, design and technology into a delicious concoction.

Michael Shimmins

Founder and CEO of @lexim.

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.

Shaun Johnson

Sean Kelly

Founder CEO of @corus. Collaboration startup. Technologist.

Glen Maddern

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

Hillan Klein

CEO & Co-founder at Budge

James Spittal

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

Hany Pham

Co-founder @onetouch. Former finance guy turned tech entrepreneur

Andrew Coates

Co-founder of @moneytribe, founder @superapps . Co-founded AgentArts (acquired by Fast Search). Strategy consultant at Accenture. Hack musician.

David Wei

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

Chris Joannou

Founder @perceptar, @StartupMelb • Melbourne Director @startup-grind Studied at @swinburne-university "Top 50 Australian Startup Influencers"- Shoestring Startups

Dallas Krueger

Lover of life and successful learner. Businessman, Human Behaviorist, Big Dreamer and avid hack sacker.

Ben Sze

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

Ray Hilton

Founder @wirestorm, @hood, @emit • Worked at @sensis, @australia-post, @smesh, @heyday • Studied at @university-college-london, @open-university-london

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.

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

Ben Richardson

Aerospace Engineer & Entrepreneur

Adam Ellison

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

Tri Truong

CEO, Tru-e Technology and Media Services INC.

Bart Macdonald

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

Nicholas Birrell

Entrepreneur & Investor

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.

Vaughn Hew

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

Ben Flavel

Co-founder and CEO at CheckinLine, MBA (Entrepreneurship and Innovation), also founded innovation consultancy NeoCogs.

Aron Steg

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

Tim Fung

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

Stephanie Andrews

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

Chris Dahl

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

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

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.

Cinnamon Pollard

Studied at @university-of-sydney, @university-of-technology-sydney

Juliana Yoon

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

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.

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.

David Mclay

Founder & CEO of @xsrpm Studing Business advertising officially 1 million dollars = 1 share in @xsrpm

Alon Tamir

Founder & Director at StudioProper - boutique product design studio

Mat Holroyd

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

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.

Dallas Mayne

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

Ivan Lim

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

Phill Deresa

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

Stuart McGill

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

Mike Rhodes

Founded WebSavvy - Visual SEM Management

Lachlan Donald

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

Matthew Charles

Director | Visionary | Architect | Human

Andrew Armstrong

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

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.

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.

David Chung

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

Julia Hughan

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

Bryan Eddy

Co Founder, Exective Producer at BoxMedia Network

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.

Justin Re

Founder @ourcast

Mark Mansour

Get the Story

Phoebe Yu

CEO & Founder of @ettitude. Serial entrepreneur. eCommerce, Digital marketing

Bao-Minh Tran-Vo

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

George Radman

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

Michael Pearson

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

Denver Dale

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

James Crawford

Co-Founder @beanhunter

Jason Palmer

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

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.…

Peter Murray

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

Albert Yang

Founder & CEO at JASU

Jenny MacKinnon

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

Jerrold Poh

Cofounder and CTO of @coinjar

Matt Devlin

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

Scott Burgess

Founder & CEO @continu. Previously, Co-Founder @createone.

Andrew Hempel

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

Anita Eglitis

Co-Founder at Techseeder Pty Ltd

Harprem Doowa

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

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

Artur Daylidonis

Founder at Amectronix. BBA. Developed social network & launched iOS games to Top-3. Started first organisation at 13.

David Micallef

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

Lauren Rielly

Nick Redwood

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

Alexander Haggerty

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

Jake Lawton

Kate Dinon

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

Lucas Taulealeausumai

Founder of @choosly and an innovative innovator.

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

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.

Ash Nilkanth

Founder of @hatchvid. Entrepreneur, programmer, realist, industry veteran, MIS.

Ben

Co-founder of Lexim

Greg Furlong

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

Nick Foster

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

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.

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.

Peter Chapman

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

Simon Underwood

eCommerce & Online specialist

Thien Nguyen

Co-founder of Goldspades.

Adam Neumann

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

Celso Prado

COO fanfuel

Alan Dee

Founder @ 2Crates. 15 years IT industry; Masters in Entrepreneurship (Swinburne)

Leigh Sherman

Founded @tiip • Work at @telstra-australia • Studied at @university-of-ballarat

Lucretia de Jong

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

Rahul Jhaveri

Founder DiscoverMe - your episodes of talent

Scott Grierson

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

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!

Ilavenil A

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

Nicholas Firth-McCoy

Zuhair Naqvi

Chen Wang

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

Jon Wellman

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

Luciano Devoto

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

Matthias Peitsch

Studied at @monash-university

Peter Hare

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

Vuong Ngo

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

Zia Word

Full Stack marketer & generalist

Adrian Grayson-Widarsito

CTO and Founder at Yellloh. Science and Aerospace Engineering, programmer, nerd.

Bruno Partridge

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

Keith Pitt

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

Anthony Curtin

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

John Ngo

Founder @small-epic. Believes in idealism, entrepreneurship, user experience, Ruby, and the ‘Greater Fool’.

Peter Williams

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

Ryan St. James

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

Simon Hoeksma

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

Andy Crone

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

Brad Moore

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

Brett Allen

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

Caine Wanjau

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

Courtney DeWitt

Daniel Kirkland

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

Ollie Wallis

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

Pan Demosthenous

Technologist, product creator, ex-BSkyB mobile and interactive

Rami Jarrar

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

Richard Wilson

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

Jordy Catalano

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

Julian Cassin

Founder RapidFMS. Please visit me at Linked In.

Nathan Oliver

Director | Leader | Banker | Human

Oliver Owens

I build things. Sometimes they don't break.

Craig Miller

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

James McQueen

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

Jeff Paine

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

Lenny Tjoe

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

Mario Moeller

Founder @partystar Function Room Brokerage

Moira Dempsey

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

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

Tessa Herd Court

CEO & Founder IntelligenceBank. Profitable & Scalable. Exec Team @ Hitwise with successful exit. Springboard Enterprises Alum.

William Nuyen

Developer, Designer, Business Man