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Director of Partnerships at Sampler | Carlie Clough Aug 29, 2018

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By virtue of the film and television production grounds, Carlie gained a strong work ethic and first foray into the world of problem solving. After receiving her MBA with a specialization in marketing, Carlie joined the wonderful mad men world of advertising agencies. Thoroughly enjoying her time on a retail client, Carlie gained experience managing a team, vendors, and agency partners while strategizing and implementing annual marketing plans. Carlie joined the tech start-up community in Toronto in 2014, consulting in the ad-tech industry on a variety of facets from business development, strategy and partnerships.

Restaurants Turned into co-working spaces| Tashi Dorjee | Twospace Aug 15, 2018

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Tashi Dorjee is Chief Executive Office and Co-founder of TwoSpace, a startup founded here in Sydney which turns restaurants that are closed during the day into a network of co-working spaces. Today, TwoSpace has grown networks not only in Sydney but also in Melbourne, Perth, Canberra and across Australia; members work from gorgeous restaurants, rooftop bars, funky hotel lounges, and beachside venues with ocean views. TwoSpace is gearing up to launch a global network, with the first international co-working community growing in Hong Kong.

Ecommerce Entrepreneur | President at Curves with Purpose Nancy Yousseff Aug 04, 2018

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Nancy Yousseff is a Passionate, polyglot executive. Pioneered, facilitated and steered entry of various organizations globally. International leader, working with cross-functional teams to bring exceptional product, unique experience and world class service to global consumers.

Retail Disruptor | Founder of GroceryGetter Shawn Singh Jul 30, 2018

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GroceryGetter was founded in 2017 with a view to bringing you the cheapest groceries to your door step. Their advanced database allows you to compare prices between Supermarket chains in order to allow you to find the cheapest and most sought-after products in your local supermarket. With delivery, they now take the convenience of saving to the next level. For a low price, they can deliver the groceries to your doorstep. http://www.grocerygetter.com.au/

Global Brand Leader + Strategist | Innovation Communications + Integrated Marketing Jul 14, 2018

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Growth-minded, globally oriented communications executive known for developing powerful brand platforms and GTM strategies that quickly address complex commercial and customer needs while creating lasting value. Inventive and inspirational leader who built several high-performing communications departments and brand consultancies from scratch, empowering multicultural, cross-functional and remote teams to deliver results through periods of rapid change, on tight budgets and timelines. One of the original digital storytellers who launched some of the earliest interactive platforms, new media, and SaaS offerings in the world @AOL. Diverse experience also spans every aspect of B2B and B2C marcomms across academia, apparel manufacturing, beauty, consumer tech, digital entertainment, financial services, FMCG, luxury/lifestyle, professional services, telecommunications and women’s retail. Career has touched > 60 countries, with ~15 years in APAC and substantial, on-the-ground experience in: Brussels, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Singapore, Sydney, and Washington, DC. Specialties: *Strategic brand positioning & business transformation *Business collaboration & strategic partnerships *Client relations & VIP engagement *Content marketing & thought leadership *Engaging employees & stakeholders through change *Igniting innovation & launching new initiatives Visit http://mglobaladvisory.com/

Coca Cola Amatil | Startup Program Director at BlueChilli | Megan Flamer Jul 03, 2018

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Megan is BlueChilli’s newest Program Director, freshly returned from four years in San Francisco where she consulted on organisational development, communications and mindfulness for some of the world’s biggest tech and media companies. Prior to working in SF, Megan worked for more than a decade in the media across Australia and the Asia Pacific region, as a journalist and radio host with the ABC. Megan is also a highly regarded mindfulness consultant, having run her own yoga retreat and personal development company, creating mindfulness programs for high performance teams at Google, Facebook and HSBC, as well as working with vulnerable clients in prisons in Australia and the US. Having seen what works for startups (and moreover, what doesn’t) in the global heart of tech in San Francisco, Megan has returned to Australia to join the team at BlueChilli, hungry to contribute to the thriving Australian startup landscape - to support an ecosystem that is creative, dynamic and healthy, while creating new economies, new jobs and new ways of thinking.

Human-Centered Marketing Consultant helping tech startups Go-To-Market across APAC Jun 25, 2018

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Humanisation was born to help tech startups make a human impact in a digital world. They are Marketing & Business Consultants who help tech startups Go-To-Market across APAC. Our secret sauce is Human-Centered Marketing. They partner with SaaS, B2B, Cloud & FinTech brands to drive business growth and customer impact from Australia to South-East Asia to China and everywhere in between and operate as a member of your team from start to finish. https://www.humanisation.com/

Murat Soysal | Co-founder at Segmentify | AI based Personalization for eCommerce Jun 22, 2018

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Murat is the co-founder of Segmentify, a SaaS tool providing personalised product recommendations. Murat has spent 10 years in the information technologies sector as wide area network administrator, computer network security specialist and network traffic management engineer in National Research and Education Network (NREN) of Turkey. Main key words to define his technical background during my professional life are open-source, IPv6, CSIRTs, NetFlow. During this term, he had the chance to be involved in academic life resulting in journal papers and an Msc thesis. Find Murat here at https://www.linkedin.com/in/murat-soysal/ or visit http://www.segmentify.com

CEO @ Lampix, Managing Partner @ Block X Ventures, Blockchain Entrepreneur Jun 19, 2018

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George is presently the CEO and co-founder of Lampix, an augmented reality technology platform. He is also the founder and Editor in Chief of Lending Times, a media company in the peer-to-peer, marketplace and online lending space. Also Chairman of the Board of advisors of Gatecoin, a blockchain asset exchange and an advisor to First Blood, a blockchain based eSports platform. Learn more about George at https://www.linkedin.com/in/gapopescu/

Center for Advancing Retail & Technology |Inc. Magazine|New York Times|Yahoo Finance|Forbes May 31, 2018

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Sterling has been seen in Inc. Magazine, The New York Times, ABC Money, AlleyWatch, Yahoo Finance, Forbes and other major media outlets. Living at the intersection of in-store, online and the 4th Industrial Revolution, Sterling is actively shaping the future of commerce by helping others create and respond to innovation in a way that betters businesses, communities and the human condition. Sterling Hawkins has become a master of innovation through massive changes and obstacles he has overcome in his own life. From selling the first company he founded in 2004 to flat broke, from a broken family business to a successful one, and from fear of public speaking to keynoting at conferences around the world, Sterling’s story is a perfect example of how anyone can take any situation and create anything from it. As a business leader, entrepreneur investor and futurist, Sterling is an internationally renowned keynote speaker. As a 5th generation retailer and still very active in retail innovation, he has worked with the likes of Stanford, Cornell and the University of Texas to create the future of commerce, and today evaluates over 1,000 innovative technologies annually which are looking to dynamically transform retail and how people fulfill on their wants and needs. He has worked with countless startups, investment groups, retailers, brands and Fortune 500 companies including P&G, Mitsubishi, Zebra Technologies, Stater Bros. and more to ignite innovation and innovation thinking inside their organizations. https://www.sterlinghawkins.com/

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