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Peter Styles from Redbubble
Peter is an entrepreneur. But it took him a while to get there. To find his calling Peter spent seven years at university, six years in the Army and two years at Ericsson. Peter’s first start up company was Southern Innovation – a company established to commercialize land-mine detection research from The University of Melbourne. [...]
Kristina Karlsson from Kikki K
June 9th 2009 As she set about establishing her home office, Kristina struggled to find beautiful and stylish products which she had grown used to in her native Scandinavia. So she designed her own. From first identifying a gap in the home office market, Kristina’s journey included a buying trip around the world, and extensive [...]
Monique Conheady from Flexicar
May 12th 2009. Have you ever wondered: Can you make millions – and still help save the planet? Can you build an successful business – from a garage? Can you partner with the big guys – when you are only a little fish? And can you play like a girl – in a boy’s industry? [...]
Sahil Merchant from Magnation
April 21st 2009. Have you ever wondered: How do you go about building a cool consumer brand? How does it feel to have only 10 days worth of cash left in the bank and lots of bills to pay? Is it better to have smart investors, dumb investors or no investors? What do you do [...]
Brendan McKeegan from Emue
March 10th 2009. As CEO of tech startup Emue Technologies and Co-Founder of NinetyDays, Brendan is at the forefront of commercialising emerging technologies. Emue specialises in ground-breaking authentication technologies while NinetyDays provides entrepreneurial leadership and resources to emerging business ventures. Brendan has built a number of IT and consumer businesses from the ground up. He has extensive [...]
Peter Williams from Deloitte Digital
February 10th 2008. Pete Williams is recognised as a global thought leader on Innovation. A Chartered Accountant by background Pete moved into the Web space in 1993. He has a unique perspective on how business can profit from using web technology. Pete is CEO of Deloitte Digital, which is a new business that delivers professional services [...]
Phillip Weinman from Deasil
October 14th 2008. Read Nick Foster’s review of this event. In 1983, Philip co-founded HiSoft, a software/hardware solutions business, which quickly became one of Australia’s fastest growing companies, employing 400 people in five countries. Within five years HiSoft grew to become Australia’s largest privately owned computer company with a turnover in excess of $300M. In [...]
Domenic Carosa from Destra
October 14th 2008. Domenic Carosa is the founder and CEO of digital media Investment company Dominet Digital Corporation Pty Ltd. Prior to this he co-founded destra Corporation in 1993, when he was in his late teens and then listed it on the Australian Stock Exchange in May 2000. At the time, Domenic was the youngest [...]
Ryan Trainor from ninety days
September 9th 2008. Ryan Trainor started his first company, a retail security firm in 1997 at the age of 23. After three years he was servicing most major retail outlets in Australia, contracting more than 500 staff. He sold to a large multinational in 2000. Since then, Ryan has founded and grown several businesses including [...]
Paul Mathis from 100 Mile Cafe
August 12th 2008. It all began with the bustling pizzeria he opened at 23. Since then Paul Mathis has been behind a long list of popular Melbourne restaurants including Transport, Taxi, Transit, Upper House and Lower House, Chocolate Buddha, Soulmama, Blue Train Cafe and Automatic. After relinquishing Transport Hotel and other Federation Square properties (for [...]
