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A tech-savvy charted accountant who has worked globally. He is a FinTech founder who raised capital from local and international VCs. Prior to this, he launched and ran a UK-based scale-up in Australia as Country Manager, achieving the fastest ever country launch for the business. Byron started his career at EY, working in Johannesburg, New York and Sydney.  Byron has a deep empathy for founders and is passionate about product development and go-to-market approaches with a unique ability to assist with financial modelling, M&A and capital raising.

Sandi has over 25 years finance sector experience across multiple asset classes. She is an active non-executive director with organisations including Active Super, Pengana International Equities Ltd, ACT Treasury & CFA Societies Sydney. Sandi is passionate about innovation, diversity and inclusion and is the current Chair of the National Diversity Council of CFA Australia Society. Sandi was previously Head of Private Markets Australia for Willis Towers Watson and a Director and Chair NSW of Women in Super.

Hugh is a leading member in Australia’s technology industry building and working with some of Australia’s most successful companies. Hugh was a co-founder / COO of the Volante Group, which was Australia’s leading ASX listed IT solutions provider. He is currently COO of CloudWave, an Australian Cloud Contact Centre / Customer experience software as a service provider. Hugh has a wealth of early-stage venture experience, previously as the Global CIO for Investible, and currently as a venture partner with Vulpes Ventures.

Brone has experience as both an investor and senior executive at technology companies. Brone currently manages the strategy and investment process for a sovereign wealth fund backed business and alternative property roll-up while also originating investment opportunities for family offices and various independent advisory roles. He is an Investment Director at Tasman Capital Partners and Jaga Group. He was previously CFO at ASX-listed Skyfii and VP Finance of Freelancer. Brone started his career at KPMG Corporate Finance.

Usman is a systems entrepreneur with 10 years of diverse experiences in for-profits and not-for-profits. His purpose lies in doing his bit to solve two major wicked problems - global warming, and the global refugee crisis through out-of-the-sphere solutions. He was named 2018 Commonwealth Young Person of the Year amongst 1.4 billion young people in the Commonwealth by HRH Prince Harry in 2018. He is currently co-founder and CEO of Catalyser, a pre-accelerator for migrants and refugees, which has helped create over 600 businesses.

Nicole has over 15 years of experience across venture capital, investment banking and strategy consulting. Most recently, Nicole worked for 4 years as the Investment Director, and voting IC member at Rampersand, an early stage focussed venture capital investor. Nicole's previous experience includes roles at Seek in product strategy, PwC in strategy consulting and Rothschild in investment banking. She is passionate about helping founders scale their businesses and delivering exceptional returns to investors.

Kay is a serial entrepreneur and has developed qualified expertise on the interlink between finance, engineering, and sports. He has 12 years managerial experience, which includes successful set up, turnaround management, and streamlining of international organizations. His previous experience includes supporting the Volkswagen Group board of directors & board of management. Kay is currently co-founder / CFO of Headsafe, a concussion management device and a Partner at BeingIconic, a technology company scale-up specialist program.

Chris is an experienced fintech entrepreneur with experience advising and investing into technology startups. Chris was previously Co-Founder and and Managing Director of Equitise, the first syndicated venture capital and equity crowdfunding platform in Asia-Pacific, managing over $100m. He was previously an advisor on inorganic growth strategy for one of the largest eCommerce businesses in China and he is currently an Entrepreneur in Residence at Portfolio T, a Venture Studio for a global technology company in Silicon Valley.