Our Mentors

We are supported by the Queensland Government, City of Gold Coast and over 20 corporate and community partners, sponsors and supporters committed to driving a new digital economy on the Gold Coast.

We would like to acknowledge and thank all of you for your support and generosity.

INVESTMENT & FINANCE

Kenneth Kramme

Scrum Master

Kenneth has assisted companies in Brisbane and in the Gold Coast in dramatically improving their Agile/Scrum practices for substantially improved business results.

One company was Allianz Worldwide Partners where he provided leadership in the development of an web portal/shopping cart for International Students coming to Australia (i.e. market of over 350,000 students). The other company is the Gold Coast-based Travelsim Pty Ltd where his consultation and leadership in maturing their agile/scrum practices resulted in the CEO stating “Our change in business management is monumental” and “Our future is stronger”. Kenneth has two certifications as a Scrum Master, and two certifications as a Project & Portfolio Management Professional. He also has extensive overseas experience in Tokyo and in Singapore (i.e. as a Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Management Consulting Services), and helped grow the offices there in Tokyo from 50 to 650 consultants over 6 years and from 30-350 consultants in Singapore over 3 years.

Alex Knight

Venture Capital - Strategic CFO - Entrepreneurial Accountant

Alex is the fund manager at 42 Innovations and has a strong background in the investment industry.

MARKETING

Sam Kennedy

Certified Chair of Advisory Board Centre

Dynamic leader of Pivotel Australia, NZ & Asia Pacific. 17 year old Pivotel is a leading Australian owned & operated mobile network operator specialising in satellite technology to help people and organisations in critical, remote & maritime environments. With 26 years of industry experience across Telecommunications, Technology, Human Resources, Law and the Public Sector, I have unique expertise in business strategy, customer experience, innovation, sales, marketing, regulatory governance, compliance and reform, workplace relations, organizational change and digital revolution.

Chair of Redland’s City Council Economic Development Advisory Board and 5 other Advisory Boards as Expert in Residence for the Gold Coast Innovation Hub. Queensland’s Minister for ICT’s Advisory Board member.

David Nicolas

Wellness Enthusiast, Practitioner & Marketing Executer

Working Primarily With Wellness/ Sustainable/ Crypto Brands Seeking Resonant Messaging & Systems To Create Their Ideal Business & Communities For A Bigger Impact

A little more about me and my vision,

Apart from making sure I get enough exercise, good nutrition, rest and fun in my life, my days are spent working on figuring out with clients on how best to provide solutions that resonate and matter more.

Personally I’m really driven to contribute to the improvement of health span for all living things (humus) on this planet. So my passion primarily involves figuring out how to help brands related to this become more impactful.

I left private practice as an optometrist a few years ago now to focus on helping those brands create a more lasting impact on their communities using resonating communications strategies. These assets include websites, campaigns, offers, communities systems providing exquisite human experiences.

So whether it is a messaging, process, people, purpose, or profit issue affecting the business impact, my goal as a marketing systems agency is to work in collaboration with other like minded business growth experts to help you identify and address those roadblocks.

We offer a transformational and shared value model that generates sustainable revenue and profits for your business using sales and marketing principles that are resonant with the consumer.

Hank Kingman

Advisor, Commercialist, NED

Hank has held leadership roles at the forefront of commercial development in Media in Australia and the UK.

With a foundation in business development, advertising solutions, marketing, consumer research and analysis he has worked with start up national broadcasters in free to air and Pay TV, in direct marketing, news publishing, search marketing and began Fairfax Media’s early transition to a digital enterprise. Hank has contributed to the transformation of major media businesses in to multi platform digital concerns, run cinema JVs internationally, advised on the start up of a premium member car club, an investment business tailored to women and been the co founder of Australian beverages brand – Nudie. drinks.

COMMERCIALISATION

Ana Alexander

Advisor and Mentor

Areas of expertise include:
– corporate governance,
– business optimisation,
– operations management,
– risk management,
– strategic planning and implementation of strategy,
– corporate restructuring and insolvency,
– asset management and asset recovery,
– management of cash flow and liquidity,
– working capital analysis.

John Driscol

Advisor

Chartered Accounting professional with experience in start up and commercialisations.

TECH

Paul Jensen

Research and Development at Anonyome Labs

Paul leads worldwide user support teams across Salt Lake City and Gold Coast, Australia. Having been with Anonyome Labs since inception as a founding member, Paul has played numerous product development leadership roles in growing the company. He has over 25 years’ experience in software development, with the last 20 dedicated to security technologies, specifically access management, identity management, privacy, and mobile security. Before joining Anonyome, Paul worked for IBM in senior management roles across product development, support, services, customer advocacy, and special projects.

Kelvin Ross

Chief Technology Officer of Datarwe

Dr Kelvin Ross has over 30 years of experience in software engineering and enterprise IT applications. Kelvin started his IT career in defence, and completed PhD in safety critical systems engineering. He has worked in the commercial sector for the past 20 years, across many domains, including significant projects in healthcare. Kelvin is director of IntelliHQ, a non-profit developing the ecosystem for AI innovation in healthcare. Kelvin is founder and non-exec Chairman of KJR, an specialist IT advisory firm with over 100 consultants in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Institute for Intelligent and Integrated Systems, Griffith University. He is a Director of AIkademi, an organiser for the Young Women Leaders in AI program, an organiser for the Gold Coast AI and Machine Learning meetup group, and has held several roles in national technical working groups (NATA and ACS), and held several board positions.

Kane Sajdak

Co-Founder & CEO at HomeGuardian

Kane Sajdak is a passionate business and technology expert, and cofounder of the multi-award winning IT firm, BITS Technology Group. Through his drive to improve businesses through smart technology choice, and ensuring that the “people” element of technology is at the forefront of every engagement, BITS Technology Group has grown to include national and international office, and work with some of Australia’s leading organisations. Kane has an extensive career in IT, and most recently has been crowned Young Entrepreneur of the Year for the second year in a row.

Law

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