We are very excited to present our first-ever Global Tech program. This program serves as the on-ramp into our alumnae network: a global community of world-class entrepreneurs, investors and business development professionals committed to supporting entrepreneurial businesses and the women who lead them.
The program kicks off in March 2022 with a group of ten talented women founders. We are looking forward to supporting them as they take their business to the next level.
Carly ShamgarCEO and Co-Founder of Shouta
Carly is a serial entrepreneur having worked in the tech start-up space for a decade as a co-founder, business leader, and investor. She has had extensive experience managing and growing both sales and marketing teams, been involved in several successful product launches and was part of the founding team of a retail tech start-up from pre-launch through to a successful exit in the US.
Shouta is a nano-gifting™ app that lets you shout someone coffee, drinks or anything else as a token of your thoughts. When you send a shout, your recipient gets instant access to a prepaid, digital Shouta™ Mastercard so they can tap and pay for their shout wherever they like - anywhere Mastercard is accepted. Shouts are the perfect way to celebrate or commiserate life’s mini moments and are perfect for saying “thanks”, “congrats”, “I'm sorry”, “I miss you” and more. |
Laura HallCEO and Co-founder of Helio
Laura is the Co-Founder of Helio, an advertising marketplace that connects buyers and sellers, making the complex process of booking ad space easy. Whatever the size, Helio instantly connects buyers to a wide network of advertising options at a price and location that suits
Laura brings 16+ years of experience representing media owners in the advertising industry, and a wealth of strategic insight into how the advertising world works.
A passionate leader and entrepreneur, she was instrumental in taking her co-founded sales representation agency MediaSeed from start-up to acquisition in 2016 and is now on a mission to democratise media levelling the playing field to help all businesses grow. |
Laura BellCEO and Founder of SafeStack Academy
With over a decade of experience in software development and information security, Laura Bell specialise in bringing security into organisations of every shape and size.
She is the founder and CEO of SafeStack Academy, an online education platform offering flexible, high-quality, and people-focused secure development training for fast-moving companies, with a focus on building security skills, practices, and culture across the entire engineering team.
Laura is an experienced conference speaker, trainer, and regular panel member, and has spoken at a range of events such as BlackHat USA, Velocity, and OSCON on the subjects of privacy, covert communications, agile security, and security mindset.
She is also the co-author of Agile Application Security and Security for Everyone. |
Jacqueline (Jax) GarrettCEO and Founder of GGWP Academy
Over 20 years of experience in a variety of leadership and high-pressure roles across Project management, communications, training facilitation and a first startup that was acquired within 18 months.
GGWP Academy is an E-learning and creator/brand marketplace platform for gamers globally. We educate and deliver best in class content creators and then provide them with opportunities to work with brands on marketing campaigns. |
Rachael GreavesCEO of Castlepoint Systems
Rachael Greaves is a records and information management thought leader, who designed the Castlepoint command and control product. Rachael has consulted on large-scale records, security and audit projects in government and regulated industries with complex integrated environments, and developed Castlepoint in response to the tension seen in organisations between compliance, usability, sustainability and cost. Rachael is a Certified Information Professional (CIP), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Data Privacy Systems Engineer (CDPSE), and is certified in project, change, and records management.
With a cultural anthropology and linguistics background, Rachael brings ethical, global and sustainable practices to the sector. Her innovative technology concept has transformed the compliance and risk management outcomes of multiple organisations, by automating the application of complex and multi-layered regulatory obligations to their data holdings. Rachael’s mission is to improve outcomes for citizens and stakeholders by helping governments and organisations to provide better, more accountable services. |
Cate HullCEO and Founder of FreightExchange
Cate Hull is CEO of FreightExchange, since launching in April 2015 FreightExchange has shipped for tens of thousands of businesses, integrated with 100s of carriers globally and created offices in Australia, LA, Singapore, Hong Kong and Manila. Prior to founding FreightExchange. Cate led the APAC Forensic Data Analytics Practice and Ernst & Young and built data science teams for companies like Commbank & Citibank.
FreightExchange puts traders back control by providing visibility, choice & flexibility over their entire operations fast, reducing costs by 25%. Unlike competitors like SAP and Netsuite, enterprises can buy and implement FreightExchange anywhere in the world in days, not months or even years! |
Anna WrightCEO and Co-Founder of BindiMaps
Anna is a recognised leader in the startup ecosystem, lighting a path for non-technical founders to start and build tech companies that can change the world. It is her passion for impact that Anna has been nominated and listed as one of the top 10 Australian Entrepreneurs to watch in 2019, top 5 female Australian Entrepreneurs 2019, top 10 dynamic Australian entrepreneurs for 2020 and 2020 NSW Pearcey Entrepreneur of the Year Award finalist.
Launched in January 2017, BindiMaps is an award-winning smart cities technology startup, bringing accessibility to people and places currently out of bounds for people who are vision-impaired. By providing a navigation tool that works where traditional GPS does not - inside major public precincts such as university campuses, airports, shopping malls and office buildings - BindiMaps offers increased convenience for most, while fundamentally changing the lives of people with a vision impairment, allowing them to navigate public spaces independently and safely. |
Jeanette CheahCEO and Founder of HEX
Jeanette Cheah is the founder and CEO of HEX, an award-winning edtech company delivering internationally recognised, immersive innovation and entrepreneurship programs to university students and the next generation of talent. A globally in-demand corporate keynote speaker and panelist, she is also a guest lecturer and mentor at universities around Australia and an advocate for tech inclusion and diversity in business worldwide.
Jeanette has represented Australia at the G20 Young Entrepreneurs Alliance in Argentina, was a Telstra Business Women’s Awards finalist, and in 2021 was named a 40 Under 40 Most Influential Asian-Australian and category winner for Entrepreneurship. |
Lucinda HartleyFounding Director of Neighbourlytics
Urban designer turned entrepreneur, Lucinda Hartley uses big data to measure the quality of life and wellbeing of neighbourhoods. She is a co-founder of Neighbourlytics, an innovative data analytics company that uncovers rich insights about human behaviour and activity in neighbourhoods, allowing decision makers to make more effective choices about how cities and neighbourhoods are planned, managed and improved. Lucinda was recently named as one of 100 Women of Influence by the Australian Financial Review and one of Melbourne's Top 100 most influential people by The Age.
With over a decade of experience, Lucinda was a Myer Innovation Fellow, Westpac Social Change Fellow, and was previously co-founder and CEO of award-winning placemaking consultancy, CoDesign Studio. Prior to this her insights contributed to defining UN Sustainable Development Goal 11 (Cities). A designer turned tech-founder, Lucinda is alumni of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Singularity University. Lucinda doesn’t separate work and personal life: first we shape our cities, then they shape us. |
Jessica Christiansen-FranksFounding Director of Neighbourlytics
Jessica Christiansen-Franks is an urban designer and social entrepreneur who has dedicated her career to understanding the social dynamics of urbanisation. Passionate about creating neighbourhoods people love and feel connected to, Jessica is a thought leader in innovative citizen participation, and particularly the value of ‘placemaking’ as a tool for collaboration and inspiring active citizenship. With experience across Australia, as well as the UK, Canada, India, Vietnam and the Philippines, Jessica has been fortunate enough to advise the public and private sectors, along with major international aid agencies. A champion for the citizen voice, Jessica is Vice Chair of the Smart Cities Council’s (AusNZ) Centre for Civic Innovation. |