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Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$5,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,500,000.00
Skills
Education
Bachelor of Mathematics
Work Experience
2019
Chief Product Officer
2019
I lead Deputy's talented design, engineering, product management teams, leading product/technical direction, and building teams to deliver on that vision. Deputy transforms businesses with shift-based workers — driving profits by saving time and wages; staying compliant with evolving labor laws, and empowering employees to work the way they want. A product-led high-growth workforce management software (SaaS) company born in Sydney, Deputy is used by millions of people, close to 400,000 workplaces across 120+ countries each day.
2019
Portfolio Advisor
2019
Advising and partnering with Whiteoak portfolio companies on strategy and growth (with focus on technology and product); analysing investments into new businesses. Whiteoak is a mid-market private equity firm that invests in high-quality, growing, Australian businesses. Portfolio companies in B2B SaaS, B2C digital subscriptions, eCommerce and Omnichannel retail industries.
2018 - 2019
Chief Product & Technology Officer
2018 - 2019
Led the 0 to 1 build of Australia’s largest fintech payments app and digital wallet, scaling to 500,000 MAUs, and now used by 1,000,000s of active MAUs. Beem is Australia's easiest, fastest, social way to pay or get paid. The company was a joint venture founded by Australia's Top 3 banks (Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, NAB), and subsequently acquired by EFTPOS, Australia's largest payment network. Responsible for product strategy, product management, engineering and design teams, driving sequential month-over-month network growth of all key metrics with highest rated finance app in Australia (4.9 star rating, 30,000+ ratings), regularly maintaining Top 25 App position in Australian App Store.
2013 - 2018
VP, Product
2013 - 2018
Lead product strategy, design, and delivery for all CBS Sports Digital products, serving 70 million monthly users as the 2nd largest sports property in the US. Businesses driven by advertising and subscription revenues. Product suite included media news site and apps, real-time data, video, live data platform, subscription fantasy sports games across all platforms (TV, web, mobile apps). Responsibility across strategy, P/L, engineering, marketing, operations, commercial partnerships. Significant multi-million $ growth of topline revenue, margins, new business creation, and key product metrics such as 12-month customer retention. Built remote teams in Sydney and Kansas City.
2005 - 2013
VP, Product
2005 - 2013
Lead product development as the business scaled from small startup to publicly listed IPO on New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:EVDY, subsequently sold to NASDAQ:JCOM) Started as Product Manager and quickly promoted to Director then VP. Product strategy, business strategy and delivery of consumer platform across multiple health categories (pregnancy, diabetes, general health, diet and fitness). Audience grew to 20m+ monthly unique users. B2C app and media business driven by both subscription and ad revenues. * Grow the business: new business line creation, P/L oversight * Product strategy * Created a human-centered product development culture, * Scaled team, technology, processes * Platform build out of multi-tenant architecture * Lead cross functional team (engineers, product managers, editorial, ux design)
2005 - 2006
Software Engineer
2005 - 2006
Wrote software (C++) for the 3G protocol stack on the Blackberry mobile smartphone.
2004 - 2005
Software Engineer
2004 - 2005
Wrote software (Java) for one of the first mobile databases, iAnywhere/Sybase.
2000 - 2004
Software Engineer
2000 - 2004
During high school and university, developed SaaS purpose-built for professional associations, trade unions, nonprofit groups, and other membership-based organisations.