Jean-Michel Lemieux

Speaker

Jean-Michel Lemieux is the VP of Engineering at Atlassian.

He is the co-author of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform book, published by Addison-Wesley. Previously, he was the chief architect of Rational Team Concert, a Jazz-based collaborative development product.

Jean-Michel has been a committer on the Eclipse Platform since its inception.

Prior to Atlassian and Eclipse, Jean-Michel built real-time SS7 monitoring systems and real-time modelling tools.

Twitter: twitter.com/jmwind
Eclipse Rich Client Platform book: http://wiki.eclipse.org/RCP_Book
Atlassian: http://atlassian.com

Bart Jellema

Speaker

Bart is a born computer wizard: at age 6 he started with computer programming on a Commodore 64. At the age of 14 he developed and implemented a complete CRM system for a large company, and ever since he’s been developing new software applications and websites. Bart was always determined to become an innovative entrepreneur and focused his career as technologist, developer, IT manager and leader to develop essential skills and experience to become a leading entrepreneur.

In 2007 Bart co-founded his first company: Tjoos (pronounced ‘choose’). The website Tjoos.com started as price comparison engine, but then specialised in online discount coupons. The site grew by 400 percent year on year to well over 1 million unique visitors in February 2010; offering over 500,000 coupons from more than 180,000 merchants. In March 2010 Tjoos.com was acquired by US based Internet Brands (NASDAQ: INET).

In January 2011 Bart founded ZEROmail taking on Outlook and GMail by creating an email client for this day and age. Bart is also the founder of Startup Australia, which organises StartupCamps to inspire and support more people to start their own tech venture.

Twitter: twitter.com/BartJellema
ZEROmail: http://zeromail.com
Startup Australia: http://www.startup-australia.org

Andrew Laurie

Speaker

A business builder at heart, Andrew has started, grown, developed and guided growing businesses across Australia, Asia and Europe. Over the last 20 years, he has worked with a wide range of businesses and industries; he’s been a Sole Trader, a Business Owner, a Consultant and has been Managing Director of a multi-billion dollar company (which he grew 4,000% in 18 months!). He’s owned businesses, led businesses, turned around businesses, consulted to and coached businesses. He is passionate about business and about helping business owners and executives to succeed.

Andrew currently owns and leads the Sydney City Franchise for the World’s leading Business and Executive Coaching Firm; their expertise lies in assisting businesses to grow and to implement the business processes and systems needed to be sustainable, efficient and profitable.

In addition to business, Andrew has a keen passion for sport and adventure and loves to spend time with his family and friends traveling, rock climbing, skiing, sailing, running or enjoying a range of other active pursuits!

Twitter: twitter.com/andrewlaurie
Action Coach Sydney City: http://www.actioncoachsydneycity.com
LinkedIn: http://au.linkedin.com/pub/andrew-laurie/0/228/834

David Ansley

Mentor

David is an entrepreneur and management consultant. After starting his career as an engineer, he completed an MBA at IMI (now IMD) in Switzerland in the mid 80s, then co-founded a startup business in the resource processing sector. As Executive Director he co-led the company through ASX listing, setting up manufacturing facilities and building market share. The company was subsequently acquired by a major US industry player.

For five years at Accenture, one of the largest global management consulting organisations, David led consulting teams to help major ANZ and Asian corporations develop strategy, improve their supply chains, build better customer interactions, and identify how to create value from IT and the internet.

Since early 2002 David has continued to assist large and small businesses as a management consultant. He has also dedicated part of his time to volunteer roles focused on the intersection of technology and business with groups including The Warren Centre for Advanced Engineering and Materials Australia.

David is also committed to helping get new technologies and business concepts off the ground. He is a lead participant in several ventures, provides functional support in some and acts as mentor/coach in others. Having seen many ventures launched and few succeed, David has developed a rigorous and creative approach to commercialisation.

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=276830

Domenic Carosa (MEI)

Mentor

Domenic Carosa is the co-founder and Executive Chairman of Internet investment Fund, Future Capital and CEO of Dominet Digital. 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 CEO of a public-listed company in Australia.

Under his direction, destra branched out from its core web hosting business (which he sold for $19million in December 2005) to become Australia’s largest independent media and entertainment company with annualised revenues over $100m in 2008. He stepped aside as destra CEO in April 2008 to start Future Capital. Domenic is the past Chairman of the Internet Industry Association and holds a Master of Entrepreneurship and Innovation from Swinburne University.

Web: www.dominet.com.au
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/pub/domenic-carosa/0/62/804
Twitter: twitter.com/dcarosa

Stephen Burke

Mentor

Stephen is a veteran Technology Executive spending much of his career working to bridge business and technology in the enterprise corporate domain.

Stephen has extensive experience in Australia, Europe Middle East & Africa, Latin American Countries and Asia Pacific within tier one international vendor and solution providers in delivering new technologies to the market and developing new markets.

Stephen’s core expertise is in sales and marketing management with a focus on establishing vendor solutions in new markets by developing market positioning and sales go to market campaigns for both vendor direct and indirect sales channels; but his passion is new and niche technology market development.

He is currently Business Development Manager at Zaptz.

Web: www.zaptz.com

Søren Harner

Mentor

Søren Harner is the Founding Director of Permaling, a software startup specialising in software for energy efficiency analytics. Prior to starting Permaling, Soren held leadership positions in startups in Sydney and San Francisco:

• From 2007 through 2009 Søren was the Vice President of Engineering for Atlassian, an innovative and fast growing Australian software company, which makes tools for software developers. Søren grew the team from 25 to 100+ developers.
• Prior to Atlassian Søren held leadership positions in data mining and search at Intraspect Software, a San Francisco based collaboration and knowledge management software company later acquire by Vignette.
• After the acquisition, Søren served as a Director of Engineering for Vignette’s collaboration products.

Søren enjoys writing code. He is currently cranking out copious amounts of R, Ruby and Objective C. He became passionate about how software and data mining can help us solve collaborative design problems as an artificial intelligence researcher in the Center for Design Research at Stanford University.

Twitter: twitter.com/sharner
Web: www.permaling.com
LinkedIn: au.linkedin.com/in/sharner

Enjel Phoon

Mentor

Working in-house for many years in the Virgin group and other companies has set Enjel up as uniquely qualified to service the operational needs of corporate clients. She’s drafted more contracts than you’ve had slices of pizza and can document the purchase of a private island in the Caribbean if you like (she has a precedent).

A lawyer with commercial nous is rare enough, but Enjel combines it with awesome negotiating skills and an obsession with finding the perfect takeaway coffee. We don’t buy anything without letting Enjel loose on the seller, and with her purring charm they never see her coming.

Twitter: twitter.com/enjelphoon
Web: www.marquelawyers.com.au
LinkedIn: au.linkedin.com/pub/enjel-phoon/4/415/750

Nathan Mattock

Mentor

After a string of high profile cases involving telecommunications giants and umm, adult content, Nathan would be famous enough as a major case litigator even without the three High Court cases he’s run and his appearance on TODAY where he delivered the immortal quote “It’s game over, Sony.”

Nathan’s experience encompasses telecommunications, IT, intellectual property, and a wide variety of contractual work. Clients love him because he’s commercial, confident, fast and entirely entertaining.

Twitter: twitter.com/NathanMattock
Web: www.marquelawyers.com.au
LinkedIn: au.linkedin.com/pub/nathan-mattock/19/273/74a

Venessa Paech

Mentor

Currently Lead Community Manager for Community Engine, she spent several years as Community Manager for Lonely Planet (BBC Worldwide), shaping and implementing community, customer and social media strategies across platforms (including the web’s oldest travel community, the Thorn Tree forum).

Previously she was global Editor of Arts Hub, an international creative community. Venessa holds a BFA from New York University (Deans List) and an MA in Creative Media from the University of Brighton (graduating top of her class). She is a published scholar, specialising in virtual ethnography and online community exiles. Venessa is a board member of The Awesome Foundation and a regular speaker and consultant on community building and management, social media strategy, enterprise socialisation, moderation and governance for creative, commercial and public sectors. She founded the Australian Community Managers Roundtable in 2008 and is co-organiser of SWARM (Australia’s national online community management conference).

Twitter: twitter.com/venessapaech
Web: www.communityengine.com
LinkedIn: au.linkedin.com/in/venessapaech

Ryan Bigg

Mentor

Known for his exceptional grasp of the English and Ruby languages (both of which he can speak fluently, sometimes while sleeping), Ryan has combined the two into a book called Rails 3 in Action he is co-authoring with Rails core team member Yehuda Katz. He keeps a blog at a site with his name (fancy!).

Twitter: twitter.com/ryanbigg
Rails 3 in Action: www.amazon.com/Rails-3-Action-Ryan-Bigg/dp/1935182277
Web: www.ryanbigg.com
 
 
 
 

Tim Batten

Mentor

Tim Batten is an experienced leader with a financial services and telco background and an MBA, specialising in the strategic management of technically sophisticated businesses, in Australia and overseas. His corporate leadership experience spans Telstra, National Australia Bank, KPMG Management Consulting and Westpac (where he is currently Head of Technology, Online Transformation).

Tim also has several years experience in entrepreneurial small business, leading product management and consulting for an innovative wireless data and mobile applications technology provider (Soprano Design).

Throughout his career, Tim has maintained a strong interest in the areas of online business management, financial services, payments, telecommunications, project / program management, product management and electronic / mobile commerce.

Twitter: twitter.com/tim_batten
LinkedIn: au.linkedin.com/in/timbatten

Rebekah Tucker

Mentor

Rebekah Tucker is the CEO for Sandler Training Sydney Central. Rebekah is an accomplished facilitator and keynote speaker, with a wide range of speaking experience for both large and small audiences. She draws her sales expertise from over 20 years of direct sales, sales management, and business development experience.

Rebekah’s experience is across many vertical markets including IT, Professional Services, Retail, Oil and Gas, Government, Legal, and Pharmaceutical. Rebekah specialises in helping large global IT organisations and small businesses to realise their financial goals and true potential.

At Sandler, one of Rebekah’s roles is to deliver customised corporate training for large global IT organisations. Most of her clients see a return on their annual investment within two to three months. At Lenovo, she was instrumental in increasing their sales performance by 50% over just three months. At Bighand, she helped the sales management win a top five Australian law firm as a new client. Rebekah also runs public training workshops that are made available to organisations of all sizes that have a true commitment to producing results.

Prior to Sandler, Rebekah served as VP of Sales for the UK for a new software company. She launched their solution and developed sales strategies enabling the product to become a best of breed solution where it dominated the market. With the release of a new product, Rebekah rolled out a sales strategy which resulted in market-wide adoption, including top 10 firms, within only one year.

Subsequently, she served as the Director of Sales for the Australia and New Zealand for the same company where replicated her success in the Australian market in just six months. Selling to top law firms in board level deals, she built partnership relationships and reseller channels which resulted in record-breaking results, exceeding her target by nearly 200%.

Web: www.nsw2.sandler.com