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Case Studies
Selected engagements across technology, AI and ventures — placing the leaders who take companies from startup through pre-IPO to global scale.
A selection of our work. The full breadth — executive searches, board appointments and team builds across sectors and regions — is in the engagement record.
Executive search for HR-tech
Culture Amp
Executive Search for HR Tech Leadership MitchelLake was appointed to deliver an executive search for HR Tech leadership for Culture Amp, one of the world’s most successful and innovative employee experience platforms. The mandate focused on appointing a Design Director, a pivotal
Read case study →Executive Search Online Software
Canva
Global Executive Search for a No-Code Design Unicorn In 2022, MitchelLake partnered with Canva, the world’s leading no-code design platform, to complete a global executive search for Canva as the company continued its rapid international expansion. The mandate was to appoint a Sy
Read case study →GM, Growth Marketing
Who Gives A Crap
Appoint a senior growth-marketing leader while the function itself was being designed in parallel — a moving brief inside an organisational restructure.
Read case study →Chair, Non-Executive Director
VeryPay
VeryPay, part of the Verysell Group, builds contactless payment infrastructure for underbanked populations across Africa, integrating with mobile operator eWallets.
Read case study →CFO
VeryPay
VeryPay, part of the Verysell Group, builds contactless payment infrastructure for underbanked populations across Africa, integrating with mobile operator eWallets.
Read case study →Fractional CTO
Academy Plus Group
Academy+ delivers training, development and wellbeing for frontline workers, and was acquired by Addition Capital, the direct investment arm of a London family office. Post-acquisition, the business needed senior technology judgement without a full-time hire.
Read case study →Sales Director, APAC
commercetools
Establish APAC commercial leadership for a global platform expanding in the region.
Read case study →Head of Product
Applied AI Lab
Applied AI Lab, part of the Verysell Group, builds tailored AI for banking, finance, insurance and retail, spanning generative AI, natural language processing and computer vision.
Read case study →Sales Leader
Applied AI Lab
Applied AI Lab, part of the Verysell Group, builds tailored AI for banking, finance, insurance and retail, spanning generative AI, natural language processing and computer vision.
Read case study →Head of Product
PAM
PAM's smart navigation platform guides visitors through some of the world's most complex venues, including LA's SoFi Stadium.
Read case study →Head of Engineering
PAM
PAM's smart navigation platform guides visitors through some of the world's most complex venues, including LA's SoFi Stadium.
Read case study →Executive General Manager, Design
Xero
Xero is the ANZ cloud accounting champion used by millions of small businesses worldwide. Across a long partnership we built out its design and data leadership: the Executive General Manager of Design, GMs across Design, Data and Design Operations, Product Design Directors including Payments, the Director of Research Operations, and the US-based GM of Data Enrichment. Depth, not one-off hires: the leadership infrastructure of a world-class product organisation.
Read case study →GM Design (Auckland/Melbourne)
Xero
Xero is the ANZ cloud accounting champion used by millions of small businesses worldwide. Across a long partnership we built out its design and data leadership: the Executive General Manager of Design, GMs across Design, Data and Design Operations, Product Design Directors including Payments, the Director of Research Operations, and the US-based GM of Data Enrichment. Depth, not one-off hires: the leadership infrastructure of a world-class product organisation.
Read case study →GM Data
Xero
Xero is the ANZ cloud accounting champion used by millions of small businesses worldwide. Across a long partnership we built out its design and data leadership: the Executive General Manager of Design, GMs across Design, Data and Design Operations, Product Design Directors including Payments, the Director of Research Operations, and the US-based GM of Data Enrichment. Depth, not one-off hires: the leadership infrastructure of a world-class product organisation.
Read case study →GM Design Operations
Xero
Xero is the ANZ cloud accounting champion used by millions of small businesses worldwide. Across a long partnership we built out its design and data leadership: the Executive General Manager of Design, GMs across Design, Data and Design Operations, Product Design Directors including Payments, the Director of Research Operations, and the US-based GM of Data Enrichment. Depth, not one-off hires: the leadership infrastructure of a world-class product organisation.
Read case study →GM Data Enrichment (USA)
Xero
Xero is the ANZ cloud accounting champion used by millions of small businesses worldwide. Across a long partnership we built out its design and data leadership: the Executive General Manager of Design, GMs across Design, Data and Design Operations, Product Design Directors including Payments, the Director of Research Operations, and the US-based GM of Data Enrichment. Depth, not one-off hires: the leadership infrastructure of a world-class product organisation.
Read case study →Product Design Directors
Xero
Xero is the ANZ cloud accounting champion used by millions of small businesses worldwide. Across a long partnership we built out its design and data leadership: the Executive General Manager of Design, GMs across Design, Data and Design Operations, Product Design Directors including Payments, the Director of Research Operations, and the US-based GM of Data Enrichment. Depth, not one-off hires: the leadership infrastructure of a world-class product organisation.
Read case study →Director of Research Operations
Xero
Xero is the ANZ cloud accounting champion used by millions of small businesses worldwide. Across a long partnership we built out its design and data leadership: the Executive General Manager of Design, GMs across Design, Data and Design Operations, Product Design Directors including Payments, the Director of Research Operations, and the US-based GM of Data Enrichment. Depth, not one-off hires: the leadership infrastructure of a world-class product organisation.
Read case study →Design Ops Lead
Xero
Xero is the ANZ cloud accounting champion used by millions of small businesses worldwide. Across a long partnership we built out its design and data leadership: the Executive General Manager of Design, GMs across Design, Data and Design Operations, Product Design Directors including Payments, the Director of Research Operations, and the US-based GM of Data Enrichment. Depth, not one-off hires: the leadership infrastructure of a world-class product organisation.
Read case study →Chief Revenue Officer
Airlock Digital
Airlock Digital is an Australian cybersecurity company whose application allowlisting platform protects enterprises from the code they never approved. By letting only trusted applications run, it closes off a whole class of attack, and it does so cleanly enough to work in the real world of remote and hybrid operations. Australian security technology, protecting critical systems worldwide.
Read case study →Chief Financial Controller
Banxa
Banxa runs a global fiat-to-crypto payments gateway from Australian roots, listed in Toronto and processing at meaningful scale across Australia, North America and Europe. Founded in 2014, it builds the plumbing that lets businesses move between traditional currencies and digital assets, the compliance and payments layer behind the scenes rather than the speculation on the surface.
Read case study →Chief Product Officer
Upflowy
Upflowy lets teams build and optimise signup flows and onboarding without engineers.
Read case study →Head of Energy, APAC
Marex
Marex is a global commodities and financial markets business with 36 offices worldwide.
Read case study →Head of OTC
Marex
Marex is a global commodities and financial markets business with 36 offices worldwide.
Read case study →Chief Marketing Officer
Global Message Services
GMS provides AI-driven messaging infrastructure to enterprises and mobile network operators worldwide from its Swiss headquarters.
Read case study →Chief Human Resources and Administration Officer
Global Message Services
GMS provides AI-driven messaging infrastructure to enterprises and mobile network operators worldwide from its Swiss headquarters.
Read case study →Legal Counsel
Global Message Services
GMS provides AI-driven messaging infrastructure to enterprises and mobile network operators worldwide from its Swiss headquarters.
Read case study →Head of eCommerce & CX
LittleOak
LittleOak makes natural goat milk infant formula from its own New Zealand dairy, palm oil free and minimally processed.
Read case study →Executive Manager, Engineering
Quantium
Quantium has been turning data into decisions since 2002, one of Australia's original data science and AI companies. Its Q platform serves retail, banking, health and telecommunications, and its joint ventures read at national scale, including CommBank iQ, built on Australia's largest aggregated transaction banking dataset, and Quantium Telstra. Woolworths took a majority stake in 2021, folding that analytics capability deeper into one of the country's largest retailers.
Read case study →Chief Product Officer
Australian Life Tech (28 by Sam Wood)
Sam Wood built 28 by Sam Wood into one of Australia's largest digital fitness businesses, with more than 400,000 participants on the programme. As the company matured from founder-led programme to technology business, we appointed both the Chief Product Officer to lead the platform and the Chief Operating Officer to run the operation behind it.
Read case study →Chief Operating Officer
Australian Life Tech (28 by Sam Wood)
Sam Wood built 28 by Sam Wood into one of Australia's largest digital fitness businesses, with more than 400,000 participants on the programme. As the company matured from founder-led programme to technology business, we appointed both the Chief Product Officer to lead the platform and the Chief Operating Officer to run the operation behind it.
Read case study →CEO of New Venture
Agriculture Victoria Services
A government-backed organisation commercialising agricultural and biotechnology research needed a chief executive to take a new venture from institutional setting to market.
Read case study →Director of Strategy and Business Development
Alcidion
Alcidion builds intelligent health informatics software that helps hospitals run better and treat better. Founded in 2000, its Miya Precision platform brings clinical decision support and real-time data together to sharpen clinical workflows and patient flow across hospital systems in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. Software that meets clinicians where the pressure actually is.
Read case study →Non-Executive Director
Alternative Income REIT
Alternative Income REIT is a London-listed trust investing in specialist UK property sectors from healthcare to logistics.
Read case study →Partner, Australia
Antler
Antler backs founders from day zero, with more than 1,300 startups in its global portfolio. For its Australian operation we appointed a Partner, a hire where investment judgement, founder empathy and local network all had to arrive in one person.
Read case study →CEO
Appellon
Founded by forensic psychologist Sue Jauncey, Appellon changes workplace culture through psychology-led method and software.
Read case study →Director of Data and Insights
Arts Centre Melbourne
Australia's largest performing arts venue wanted to understand its audiences with the rigour of a technology company.
Read case study →Marketing Director APAC
Asia Market Entry Pte Ltd
Asia Market Entry helps established technology companies expand into Asia Pacific with on-the-ground operations and market intelligence. Fittingly for a market-entry specialist, the firm engaged us to appoint its own Marketing Director for APAC.
Read case study →Chief Executive Officer
Atlas Carbon
Atlas Carbon helps Australian graziers build soil carbon into the way they already farm. The company specialises in the how of it, the practice change on the ground, backed by seven years of grazing data across more than a thousand properties showing that a commitment to better practice can deliver both carbon outcomes and stronger production. Tools, insight and support, so a grazing business can add carbon without trading away productivity.
Read case study →VP Revenue
Atlas Carbon
Atlas Carbon helps Australian graziers build soil carbon into the way they already farm. The company specialises in the how of it, the practice change on the ground, backed by seven years of grazing data across more than a thousand properties showing that a commitment to better practice can deliver both carbon outcomes and stronger production. Tools, insight and support, so a grazing business can add carbon without trading away productivity.
Read case study →Head of Product
Atlas Carbon
Atlas Carbon helps Australian graziers build soil carbon into the way they already farm. The company specialises in the how of it, the practice change on the ground, backed by seven years of grazing data across more than a thousand properties showing that a commitment to better practice can deliver both carbon outcomes and stronger production. Tools, insight and support, so a grazing business can add carbon without trading away productivity.
Read case study →Customer Success Director
Atlas Carbon
Atlas Carbon helps Australian graziers build soil carbon into the way they already farm. The company specialises in the how of it, the practice change on the ground, backed by seven years of grazing data across more than a thousand properties showing that a commitment to better practice can deliver both carbon outcomes and stronger production. Tools, insight and support, so a grazing business can add carbon without trading away productivity.
Read case study →Commercial Lead
Atlas Carbon
Atlas Carbon helps Australian graziers build soil carbon into the way they already farm. The company specialises in the how of it, the practice change on the ground, backed by seven years of grazing data across more than a thousand properties showing that a commitment to better practice can deliver both carbon outcomes and stronger production. Tools, insight and support, so a grazing business can add carbon without trading away productivity.
Read case study →Chief Commercial Officer
Avarni
Avarni applies AI to carbon accounting, reading financial and procurement data to give organisations a full view of their emissions.
Read case study →Head of Product Marketing
Backpocket
Backpocket takes the awkwardness out of group payments. Founded in Australia in 2022, it lets friends pay only their share of a group booking at checkout while the booking is secured instantly, no chasing, no app downloads, no awkward money conversations. Fintech aimed squarely at a genuinely social problem.
Read case study →Chief Technology Officer
Capability Co
Capability.Co helps organisations including Telstra, ANZ and Monash University identify and activate the human capabilities their workforces need.
Read case study →Head of Engineering
Computershare
Computershare runs share registries and governance services across more than twenty countries from its Melbourne home.
Read case study →Head of Sales, Germany
CoStar UK Limited
CoStar Group is the global leader in commercial real estate information and marketplaces. For its UK division's push into continental Europe we appointed the Head of Sales for Germany. Market-entry commercial leadership inside a listed US-headquartered business.
Read case study →Head of Product
Decidr
Decidr is building an AI-first business operating system that automates work across marketing, finance and administration.
Read case study →Director of Engineering
DoorDash
As DoorDash established its Australian market presence, we delivered senior product and engineering hires locally: the Director of Engineering and a senior Product Design Lead. Destination-market talent depth for one of the world's largest delivery platforms.
Read case study →Product Design Lead
DoorDash
As DoorDash established its Australian market presence, we delivered senior product and engineering hires locally: the Director of Engineering and a senior Product Design Lead. Destination-market talent depth for one of the world's largest delivery platforms.
Read case study →VP Engineering
Eloque
Eloque, a joint venture between Xerox's PARC and the Victorian Government, commercialised fibre-optic sensing for bridge structural health.
Read case study →COO/President (subsequently CEO)
Emesent
Emesent is an Australian deep-tech company born from a decade of CSIRO robotics research, founded in 2018 by Dr Stefan Hrabar and Dr Farid Kendoul. Its flagship, Hovermap, captures data autonomously in the places GPS cannot reach, underground mines and complex industrial sites, and has now flown more than 3,000 autonomous missions across mine sites worldwide for operators including BHP, Barrick and Newmont. Australian robotics, proven in the hardest environments on earth.
Read case study →Chief Commercial Officer (x2 engagements)
Emesent
Emesent is an Australian deep-tech company born from a decade of CSIRO robotics research, founded in 2018 by Dr Stefan Hrabar and Dr Farid Kendoul. Its flagship, Hovermap, captures data autonomously in the places GPS cannot reach, underground mines and complex industrial sites, and has now flown more than 3,000 autonomous missions across mine sites worldwide for operators including BHP, Barrick and Newmont. Australian robotics, proven in the hardest environments on earth.
Read case study →CFO
Emesent
Emesent is an Australian deep-tech company born from a decade of CSIRO robotics research, founded in 2018 by Dr Stefan Hrabar and Dr Farid Kendoul. Its flagship, Hovermap, captures data autonomously in the places GPS cannot reach, underground mines and complex industrial sites, and has now flown more than 3,000 autonomous missions across mine sites worldwide for operators including BHP, Barrick and Newmont. Australian robotics, proven in the hardest environments on earth.
Read case study →Director of Software and Analytics
Emesent
Emesent is an Australian deep-tech company born from a decade of CSIRO robotics research, founded in 2018 by Dr Stefan Hrabar and Dr Farid Kendoul. Its flagship, Hovermap, captures data autonomously in the places GPS cannot reach, underground mines and complex industrial sites, and has now flown more than 3,000 autonomous missions across mine sites worldwide for operators including BHP, Barrick and Newmont. Australian robotics, proven in the hardest environments on earth.
Read case study →Head of Engineering
Emesent
Emesent is an Australian deep-tech company born from a decade of CSIRO robotics research, founded in 2018 by Dr Stefan Hrabar and Dr Farid Kendoul. Its flagship, Hovermap, captures data autonomously in the places GPS cannot reach, underground mines and complex industrial sites, and has now flown more than 3,000 autonomous missions across mine sites worldwide for operators including BHP, Barrick and Newmont. Australian robotics, proven in the hardest environments on earth.
Read case study →VP Business Development, South East Asia
Endava (UK) Limited
Endava is a London-listed digital engineering company operating across four continents. Over a sustained partnership we delivered its expansion commercial leadership into three corridors at once: VP Business Development for South East Asia, VP Sales for Australia and Director of New Business for US retail, alongside UK sales leadership and senior consulting and architecture appointments. One client, three destination markets, one search partner.
Read case study →VP Sales, Australia
Endava (UK) Limited
Endava is a London-listed digital engineering company operating across four continents. Over a sustained partnership we delivered its expansion commercial leadership into three corridors at once: VP Business Development for South East Asia, VP Sales for Australia and Director of New Business for US retail, alongside UK sales leadership and senior consulting and architecture appointments. One client, three destination markets, one search partner.
Read case study →Director New Business, Retail, USA
Endava (UK) Limited
Endava is a London-listed digital engineering company operating across four continents. Over a sustained partnership we delivered its expansion commercial leadership into three corridors at once: VP Business Development for South East Asia, VP Sales for Australia and Director of New Business for US retail, alongside UK sales leadership and senior consulting and architecture appointments. One client, three destination markets, one search partner.
Read case study →Director of Sales, Supply Chain, UK
Endava (UK) Limited
Endava is a London-listed digital engineering company operating across four continents. Over a sustained partnership we delivered its expansion commercial leadership into three corridors at once: VP Business Development for South East Asia, VP Sales for Australia and Director of New Business for US retail, alongside UK sales leadership and senior consulting and architecture appointments. One client, three destination markets, one search partner.
Read case study →Senior Principal Consultant
Endava (UK) Limited
Endava is a London-listed digital engineering company operating across four continents. Over a sustained partnership we delivered its expansion commercial leadership into three corridors at once: VP Business Development for South East Asia, VP Sales for Australia and Director of New Business for US retail, alongside UK sales leadership and senior consulting and architecture appointments. One client, three destination markets, one search partner.
Read case study →Senior Infrastructure Architect
Endava (UK) Limited
Endava is a London-listed digital engineering company operating across four continents. Over a sustained partnership we delivered its expansion commercial leadership into three corridors at once: VP Business Development for South East Asia, VP Sales for Australia and Director of New Business for US retail, alongside UK sales leadership and senior consulting and architecture appointments. One client, three destination markets, one search partner.
Read case study →Senior Industry Consultant, Payments
Endava (UK) Limited
Endava is a London-listed digital engineering company operating across four continents. Over a sustained partnership we delivered its expansion commercial leadership into three corridors at once: VP Business Development for South East Asia, VP Sales for Australia and Director of New Business for US retail, alongside UK sales leadership and senior consulting and architecture appointments. One client, three destination markets, one search partner.
Read case study →Senior UX Leader
Endava (UK) Limited
Endava is a London-listed digital engineering company operating across four continents. Over a sustained partnership we delivered its expansion commercial leadership into three corridors at once: VP Business Development for South East Asia, VP Sales for Australia and Director of New Business for US retail, alongside UK sales leadership and senior consulting and architecture appointments. One client, three destination markets, one search partner.
Read case study →CEO
enviroDNA
enviroDNA reads the DNA traces species leave in water and soil to monitor biodiversity without disturbing it.
Read case study →Cyber & Cloud Partner, EMEIA
Big Four Advisory Firm
A Big Four professional services firm, operating globally across audit, tax, consulting and advisory. Our engagements ran across its cyber and cloud practice in EMEIA, its finance transformation practice in ASEAN, and its global digital and product organisation, from cloud and digital engineering leadership to the leadership of an AI-powered workforce skills platform. Senior appointments inside one of the largest advisory networks in the world, delivered across three regions.
Read case study →Senior Director, Financial Transformation, ASEAN
Big Four Advisory Firm
A Big Four professional services firm, operating globally across audit, tax, consulting and advisory. Our engagements ran across its cyber and cloud practice in EMEIA, its finance transformation practice in ASEAN, and its global digital and product organisation, from cloud and digital engineering leadership to the leadership of an AI-powered workforce skills platform. Senior appointments inside one of the largest advisory networks in the world, delivered across three regions.
Read case study →Global Digital Engineering Lead
Big Four Advisory Firm
A Big Four professional services firm, operating globally across audit, tax, consulting and advisory. Our engagements ran across its cyber and cloud practice in EMEIA, its finance transformation practice in ASEAN, and its global digital and product organisation, from cloud and digital engineering leadership to the leadership of an AI-powered workforce skills platform. Senior appointments inside one of the largest advisory networks in the world, delivered across three regions.
Read case study →Chief Product Officer
Big Four Advisory Firm
A Big Four professional services firm, operating globally across audit, tax, consulting and advisory. Our engagements ran across its cyber and cloud practice in EMEIA, its finance transformation practice in ASEAN, and its global digital and product organisation, from cloud and digital engineering leadership to the leadership of an AI-powered workforce skills platform. Senior appointments inside one of the largest advisory networks in the world, delivered across three regions.
Read case study →Product Director
Big Four Advisory Firm
A Big Four professional services firm, operating globally across audit, tax, consulting and advisory. Our engagements ran across its cyber and cloud practice in EMEIA, its finance transformation practice in ASEAN, and its global digital and product organisation, from cloud and digital engineering leadership to the leadership of an AI-powered workforce skills platform. Senior appointments inside one of the largest advisory networks in the world, delivered across three regions.
Read case study →Cloud Leader, Americas
Big Four Advisory Firm
A Big Four professional services firm, operating globally across audit, tax, consulting and advisory. Our engagements ran across its cyber and cloud practice in EMEIA, its finance transformation practice in ASEAN, and its global digital and product organisation, from cloud and digital engineering leadership to the leadership of an AI-powered workforce skills platform. Senior appointments inside one of the largest advisory networks in the world, delivered across three regions.
Read case study →Luminary Board Advisors (Technology, Product, Web3)
Big Four Advisory Firm
A Big Four professional services firm, operating globally across audit, tax, consulting and advisory. Our engagements ran across its cyber and cloud practice in EMEIA, its finance transformation practice in ASEAN, and its global digital and product organisation, from cloud and digital engineering leadership to the leadership of an AI-powered workforce skills platform. Senior appointments inside one of the largest advisory networks in the world, delivered across three regions.
Read case study →Skills Platform Chief Product Officer
Big Four Advisory Firm
A Big Four professional services firm, operating globally across audit, tax, consulting and advisory. Our engagements ran across its cyber and cloud practice in EMEIA, its finance transformation practice in ASEAN, and its global digital and product organisation, from cloud and digital engineering leadership to the leadership of an AI-powered workforce skills platform. Senior appointments inside one of the largest advisory networks in the world, delivered across three regions.
Read case study →Skills Platform Product Director
Big Four Advisory Firm
A Big Four professional services firm, operating globally across audit, tax, consulting and advisory. Our engagements ran across its cyber and cloud practice in EMEIA, its finance transformation practice in ASEAN, and its global digital and product organisation, from cloud and digital engineering leadership to the leadership of an AI-powered workforce skills platform. Senior appointments inside one of the largest advisory networks in the world, delivered across three regions.
Read case study →Chief Technology Officer
Farmbot
Farmbot is an Australian agtech company, founded in 2014, that keeps watch over the water remote farms depend on. Its connected devices read tank levels, usage trends and infrastructure status in real time, then turn that into timely alerts and clear reporting, so a grazier can check the water from the homestead rather than driving the property to do it. Less time on tank runs, more certainty about the resource a farming business runs on.
Read case study →Head of Sales
ixDF
The Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF) is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to democratizing design education. Founded in 2002, IxDF offers a comprehensive range of online courses, textbooks, and resources in areas such as user experience (UX) design, interaction design, and human-computer interaction. Their mission is to make high-quality design education accessible to anyone, anywhere, by providing free and affordable learning materials. The platform features professional and academic textbooks, online courses, video lectures, and local chapters in over 150 countries. Notably, the organization has collaborated with industry experts and professors to develop its curriculum, including contributions from Harvard professor Clayton Christensen and New York Times bestselling author Robert Spence. IxDF's commitment to open access education has garnered support from various sponsors, including the German software company SAP.
Read case study →Board Appoinment
IxDF FZE
The Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF) is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to democratizing design education. Founded in 2002, IxDF offers a comprehensive range of online courses, textbooks, and resources in areas such as user experience (UX) design, interaction design, and human-computer interaction. Their mission is to make high-quality design education accessible to anyone, anywhere, by providing free and affordable learning materials. The platform features professional and academic textbooks, online courses, video lectures, and local chapters in over 150 countries. Notably, the organization has collaborated with industry experts and professors to develop its curriculum, including contributions from Harvard professor Clayton Christensen and New York Times bestselling author Robert Spence. IxDF's commitment to open access education has garnered support from various sponsors, including the German software company SAP.
Read case study →CEO
Linius
Linius virtualises video, turning files into searchable data that powers personalised experiences for sport and media partners.
Read case study →Advisory Board
Linius
Linius virtualises video, turning files into searchable data that powers personalised experiences for sport and media partners.
Read case study →Head of North America
Livewire Group
Livewire is an Australian gametech and gaming marketing company reaching gaming audiences for brands worldwide. In a single expansion programme we appointed its entire international leadership layer: Head of North America, Head of Europe/UK, Head of Japan and the Global Head of Media Monetisation. One Australian company, three destination markets, four leaders. The definitive modern example of expansion leadership built as a system rather than a hire.
Read case study →Head of Europe/UK
Livewire Group
Livewire is an Australian gametech and gaming marketing company reaching gaming audiences for brands worldwide. In a single expansion programme we appointed its entire international leadership layer: Head of North America, Head of Europe/UK, Head of Japan and the Global Head of Media Monetisation. One Australian company, three destination markets, four leaders. The definitive modern example of expansion leadership built as a system rather than a hire.
Read case study →Head of Japan
Livewire Group
Livewire is an Australian gametech and gaming marketing company reaching gaming audiences for brands worldwide. In a single expansion programme we appointed its entire international leadership layer: Head of North America, Head of Europe/UK, Head of Japan and the Global Head of Media Monetisation. One Australian company, three destination markets, four leaders. The definitive modern example of expansion leadership built as a system rather than a hire.
Read case study →Global Head of Media Monetisation
Livewire Group
Livewire is an Australian gametech and gaming marketing company reaching gaming audiences for brands worldwide. In a single expansion programme we appointed its entire international leadership layer: Head of North America, Head of Europe/UK, Head of Japan and the Global Head of Media Monetisation. One Australian company, three destination markets, four leaders. The definitive modern example of expansion leadership built as a system rather than a hire.
Read case study →historical Country Manager appointments (UK, Japan)
Livewire Group
Livewire is an Australian gametech and gaming marketing company reaching gaming audiences for brands worldwide. In a single expansion programme we appointed its entire international leadership layer: Head of North America, Head of Europe/UK, Head of Japan and the Global Head of Media Monetisation. One Australian company, three destination markets, four leaders. The definitive modern example of expansion leadership built as a system rather than a hire.
Read case study →Head of Sales
me\&u
me&u put QR ordering on the tables of thousands of venues across Australia, New Zealand, the UK and the US.
Read case study →GM Delivery
MECCA Beauty
MECCA is Australia's defining beauty retailer, more than one hundred stores and an online business curating over two hundred global brands.
Read case study →European Sales Leader
Mutual Mobile
Mutual Mobile, the Texas-founded digital product consultancy that built for Google, Audi and Under Armour, needed commercial leadership for its European push.
Read case study →VP/CEO for Venture (SF)
Pilot44
Pilot44 builds ventures and drives innovation for major corporations from San Francisco.
Read case study →GTM Director
Pilot44
Pilot44 builds ventures and drives innovation for major corporations from San Francisco.
Read case study →Ventures Directors x2
Pilot44
Pilot44 builds ventures and drives innovation for major corporations from San Francisco.
Read case study →Head of / VP People
Plotlogic
Plotlogic's OreSense reads ore in real time with hyperspectral imaging and LiDAR, precision that changes mining economics and environmental outcomes. Following its Series B we appointed the company's people leadership.
Read case study →Product Director
Pulsant
Pulsant runs twelve edge data centres reaching 95 per cent of the UK population.
Read case study →Venture CEO
Rainmaking Innovation (SG) Pte. Ltd.
Rainmaking co-creates ventures with global corporations from Copenhagen across forty markets. For its Singapore operation we appointed a Venture CEO to lead a corporate-backed build.
Read case study →Lead Product Designer
Redbubble
Redbubble's marketplace connects 700,000 independent artists with customers worldwide. Across several engagements we delivered its senior product and design bench, including product management for eCommerce and SEO and senior design talent.
Read case study →Senior Product Designers
Redbubble
Redbubble's marketplace connects 700,000 independent artists with customers worldwide. Across several engagements we delivered its senior product and design bench, including product management for eCommerce and SEO and senior design talent.
Read case study →Senior Product Managers (eCommerce, SEO)
Redbubble
Redbubble's marketplace connects 700,000 independent artists with customers worldwide. Across several engagements we delivered its senior product and design bench, including product management for eCommerce and SEO and senior design talent.
Read case study →CTO Asia
Seek
SEEK's Asian marketplaces, JobStreet and JobsDB, connect candidates and employers across six markets.
Read case study →Chief Technology Officer
Selfwealth
SelfWealth pioneered flat-fee investing in Australia, with more than $10 billion under administration for over 129,000 investors.
Read case study →Chief Experience Officer
Selfwealth
SelfWealth pioneered flat-fee investing in Australia, with more than $10 billion under administration for over 129,000 investors.
Read case study →Chief Customer Officer
Sharesight
Sharesight grew from a New Zealand father and son wanting a better way to follow their own investments into a platform used by more than 400,000 investors across 150 countries. Built for self-directed investors, accountants and advisers, it tracks trades, dividends and corporate actions automatically and turns them into complete performance and tax reporting, retiring the spreadsheet. A Wellington founding story, now global.
Read case study →Director of Customer Success
Sharesight
Sharesight grew from a New Zealand father and son wanting a better way to follow their own investments into a platform used by more than 400,000 investors across 150 countries. Built for self-directed investors, accountants and advisers, it tracks trades, dividends and corporate actions automatically and turns them into complete performance and tax reporting, retiring the spreadsheet. A Wellington founding story, now global.
Read case study →Director of Ecosystems
Sharesight
Sharesight grew from a New Zealand father and son wanting a better way to follow their own investments into a platform used by more than 400,000 investors across 150 countries. Built for self-directed investors, accountants and advisers, it tracks trades, dividends and corporate actions automatically and turns them into complete performance and tax reporting, retiring the spreadsheet. A Wellington founding story, now global.
Read case study →Director of Partnerships
Sharesight
Sharesight grew from a New Zealand father and son wanting a better way to follow their own investments into a platform used by more than 400,000 investors across 150 countries. Built for self-directed investors, accountants and advisers, it tracks trades, dividends and corporate actions automatically and turns them into complete performance and tax reporting, retiring the spreadsheet. A Wellington founding story, now global.
Read case study →Chief Operating Officer
Sidekicker
Sidekicker, the SEEK-backed on-demand staffing platform, has filled more than 1.5 million shifts across Australia and New Zealand.
Read case study →Chief Technology Officer
SJ Mobile Labs (Habitto)
Habitto is rebuilding how young Japanese savers engage with money, combining savings, advice and insurance in one app, with a QED-led Series A behind it.
Read case study →Head of Japan
SolChicks Limited
SolChicks built one of Solana's largest gaming communities, over 700,000 members, inside the Catheon Gaming ecosystem.
Read case study →Head of North America Sales
Splitit
Splitit lets shoppers pay in instalments on the credit cards they already hold, an ASX-listed payments company competing in the US market.
Read case study →VP of Product
Splitit
Splitit lets shoppers pay in instalments on the credit cards they already hold, an ASX-listed payments company competing in the US market.
Read case study →VP of People
Splitit
Splitit lets shoppers pay in instalments on the credit cards they already hold, an ASX-listed payments company competing in the US market.
Read case study →Financial Planning & Analysis Director
Splitit
Splitit lets shoppers pay in instalments on the credit cards they already hold, an ASX-listed payments company competing in the US market.
Read case study →Head of Implementation
Splitit
Splitit lets shoppers pay in instalments on the credit cards they already hold, an ASX-listed payments company competing in the US market.
Read case study →Banking Sales Lead
SPS Global
For SPS we delivered successive senior commercial appointments in the UK, including banking sales leadership, through 2024. (Entity description to be confirmed with JT before publication.)
Read case study →VP Sales
Sypht
Sypht, born from BPAY Group and BCG Digital Ventures, reads documents with AI so organisations don't have to, and was acquired by Paymerang in 2023.
Read case study →Head of Sales
Sypht
Sypht, born from BPAY Group and BCG Digital Ventures, reads documents with AI so organisations don't have to, and was acquired by Paymerang in 2023.
Read case study →Chief Product Officer
Tally
Tally Group's cloud-native billing and analytics platform serves utilities across multiple countries.
Read case study →eCommerce Director
The Beauty Chef
Carla Oates built The Beauty Chef on a simple idea: beauty begins in the belly.
Read case study →Digital Growth Marketing
The Beauty Chef
Carla Oates built The Beauty Chef on a simple idea: beauty begins in the belly.
Read case study →General Manager
The Creature Technology Company Pty Ltd
The animatronic dinosaurs of Walking with Dinosaurs and the ape of King Kong: The Musical came out of one Melbourne workshop.
Read case study →VP Sales, USA
WINR Corporation Pty Ltd
WINR's identity graph helps AdTech and FinTech businesses navigate signal loss and tightening privacy rules, built in North Sydney on thirty years of data experience. As the company took its platform to America we appointed the VP Sales for the USA. Australian data technology, US revenue leadership.
Read case study →Portfolio GM
X15
x15ventures builds and backs ventures with the reach of Commonwealth Bank behind them.
Read case study →Head of Portfolio
X15
x15ventures builds and backs ventures with the reach of Commonwealth Bank behind them.
Read case study →Fractional COO
X15
x15ventures builds and backs ventures with the reach of Commonwealth Bank behind them.
Read case study →Managing Director APAC (first hire in region) / Country Manager
SurveyMonkey
SurveyMonkey (now Momentive) is a US-headquartered SaaS company providing online survey, forms and experience-management software used by businesses and individuals worldwide.
Read case study →Managing Director, Australia + Asia (MD APAC)
Etsy
Etsy is a US-headquartered global online marketplace for handmade, vintage and craft goods, connecting independent sellers with buyers worldwide.
Read case study →Managing Director, Australia & New Zealand (first hire in region)
Pandora Radio
Pandora is a US-based music and audio streaming service offering personalised internet radio and on-demand listening.
Read case study →APAC Managing Director (first hire in region)
TeamViewer
TeamViewer is a German-headquartered provider of remote connectivity, remote access and support software used by businesses and consumers globally.
Read case study →Country Manager, Australia
WeWork
WeWork is a US-headquartered provider of flexible workspace and co-working office solutions, leasing and operating shared workspaces in cities worldwide.
Read case study →US Sales Lead - first full-time hire in the United States, spearheading US market entry
Traffio
Traffio is an Australian SaaS company providing a full-stack ERP and workforce-management platform for the traffic control and roadworks industry, covering crew scheduling, payroll, equipment tracking, compliance and invoicing.
Read case study →General Manager ANZ / GM Marketing AU (first hire in region)
ASOS
ASOS is a UK-headquartered global online fashion retailer for young adults, selling its own and branded apparel worldwide.
Read case study →Australia launch team / go-to-market sales team
Groupon
Groupon is a US-headquartered e-commerce marketplace connecting consumers with local merchants through deals, discounts and experiences.
Read case study →Country Director
Thumbtack
Thumbtack is a US-headquartered online services marketplace connecting customers with local professionals for home and personal projects.
Read case study →Sales Lead, ASEAN
OneTrust
OneTrust is a US-headquartered SaaS provider of privacy, security, data governance and GRC management software.
Read case study →Country Manager
Procore
Procore is a US-headquartered provider of cloud-based construction project-management software used by contractors and owners worldwide.
Read case study →US market-entry leadership build-out
99designs
Global online marketplace connecting businesses with freelance designers.
Read case study →Chief Technology Officer
Adventus
Adventus runs an AI-driven education marketplace connecting students with institutions worldwide.
Read case study →Group Lead / General Manager, Print
Canva
Canva is one of the most valuable software companies ever built in Australia. Founded in Sydney in 2012 by Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht and Cameron Adams to empower the world to design, it now serves more than 170 million monthly users across 190-plus countries, who have created over 15 billion designs, and generates more than $2 billion in annual revenue at a valuation around $26 billion. One of the very few global product companies to have scaled from Australia to the world.
Read case study →VP Product
Culture Amp
Culture Amp is the employee experience platform trusted by more than 6,500 companies including Salesforce and McDonald's. Across successive engagements we appointed five members of its product and technology executive: VP Product, VP Engineering, VP Data & AI, VP of Design and Chief Designer, and VP People Science. Few firms anywhere have built more of a single scaleup's product leadership.
Read case study →VP Engineering
Culture Amp
Culture Amp is the employee experience platform trusted by more than 6,500 companies including Salesforce and McDonald's. Across successive engagements we appointed five members of its product and technology executive: VP Product, VP Engineering, VP Data & AI, VP of Design and Chief Designer, and VP People Science. Few firms anywhere have built more of a single scaleup's product leadership.
Read case study →VP Data & AI
Culture Amp
Culture Amp is the employee experience platform trusted by more than 6,500 companies including Salesforce and McDonald's. Across successive engagements we appointed five members of its product and technology executive: VP Product, VP Engineering, VP Data & AI, VP of Design and Chief Designer, and VP People Science. Few firms anywhere have built more of a single scaleup's product leadership.
Read case study →VP of Design and Chief Designer
Culture Amp
Culture Amp is the employee experience platform trusted by more than 6,500 companies including Salesforce and McDonald's. Across successive engagements we appointed five members of its product and technology executive: VP Product, VP Engineering, VP Data & AI, VP of Design and Chief Designer, and VP People Science. Few firms anywhere have built more of a single scaleup's product leadership.
Read case study →VP People Science
Culture Amp
Culture Amp is the employee experience platform trusted by more than 6,500 companies including Salesforce and McDonald's. Across successive engagements we appointed five members of its product and technology executive: VP Product, VP Engineering, VP Data & AI, VP of Design and Chief Designer, and VP People Science. Few firms anywhere have built more of a single scaleup's product leadership.
Read case study →Chief Operating Officer
Immutable
Immutable is a Sydney-founded blockchain company building the leading platform for web3 gaming. Founded in 2018, it is best known for Immutable X, its Ethereum layer-2 for fast, low-cost NFT transactions, and for games like Gods Unchained and Guild of Guardians where players genuinely own what they earn. A $200 million Series C in 2022 put it among the defining companies of the category, built out of Australia.
Read case study →Chief Growth Officer
Immutable
Immutable is a Sydney-founded blockchain company building the leading platform for web3 gaming. Founded in 2018, it is best known for Immutable X, its Ethereum layer-2 for fast, low-cost NFT transactions, and for games like Gods Unchained and Guild of Guardians where players genuinely own what they earn. A $200 million Series C in 2022 put it among the defining companies of the category, built out of Australia.
Read case study →Chief Commercial Officer
Immutable
Immutable is a Sydney-founded blockchain company building the leading platform for web3 gaming. Founded in 2018, it is best known for Immutable X, its Ethereum layer-2 for fast, low-cost NFT transactions, and for games like Gods Unchained and Guild of Guardians where players genuinely own what they earn. A $200 million Series C in 2022 put it among the defining companies of the category, built out of Australia.
Read case study →Chief People Officer
Immutable
Immutable is a Sydney-founded blockchain company building the leading platform for web3 gaming. Founded in 2018, it is best known for Immutable X, its Ethereum layer-2 for fast, low-cost NFT transactions, and for games like Gods Unchained and Guild of Guardians where players genuinely own what they earn. A $200 million Series C in 2022 put it among the defining companies of the category, built out of Australia.
Read case study →SVP Commercial
Immutable
Immutable is a Sydney-founded blockchain company building the leading platform for web3 gaming. Founded in 2018, it is best known for Immutable X, its Ethereum layer-2 for fast, low-cost NFT transactions, and for games like Gods Unchained and Guild of Guardians where players genuinely own what they earn. A $200 million Series C in 2022 put it among the defining companies of the category, built out of Australia.
Read case study →VP Product Partnerships
Immutable
Immutable is a Sydney-founded blockchain company building the leading platform for web3 gaming. Founded in 2018, it is best known for Immutable X, its Ethereum layer-2 for fast, low-cost NFT transactions, and for games like Gods Unchained and Guild of Guardians where players genuinely own what they earn. A $200 million Series C in 2022 put it among the defining companies of the category, built out of Australia.
Read case study →GM of Studio
Immutable
Immutable is a Sydney-founded blockchain company building the leading platform for web3 gaming. Founded in 2018, it is best known for Immutable X, its Ethereum layer-2 for fast, low-cost NFT transactions, and for games like Gods Unchained and Guild of Guardians where players genuinely own what they earn. A $200 million Series C in 2022 put it among the defining companies of the category, built out of Australia.
Read case study →Executive Producer
Immutable
Immutable is a Sydney-founded blockchain company building the leading platform for web3 gaming. Founded in 2018, it is best known for Immutable X, its Ethereum layer-2 for fast, low-cost NFT transactions, and for games like Gods Unchained and Guild of Guardians where players genuinely own what they earn. A $200 million Series C in 2022 put it among the defining companies of the category, built out of Australia.
Read case study →Head of Sales (USA)
Interaction Design Foundation
The Interaction Design Foundation has democratised design education across 150 countries since 2002.
Read case study →Board appointment
Interaction Design Foundation
The Interaction Design Foundation has democratised design education across 150 countries since 2002.
Read case study →Group Manager, Sales Operations and Enablement
MYOB
MYOB is the business management platform behind a large share of Australian and New Zealand SMEs. Across multiple engagements we delivered its commercial operating leadership: Head of Sales, Head of Services, Support and Success, and group management across sales operations and enablement.
Read case study →Head of Sales
MYOB
MYOB is the business management platform behind a large share of Australian and New Zealand SMEs. Across multiple engagements we delivered its commercial operating leadership: Head of Sales, Head of Services, Support and Success, and group management across sales operations and enablement.
Read case study →Head of Services, Support and Success
MYOB
MYOB is the business management platform behind a large share of Australian and New Zealand SMEs. Across multiple engagements we delivered its commercial operating leadership: Head of Sales, Head of Services, Support and Success, and group management across sales operations and enablement.
Read case study →Group Manager Operations
MYOB
MYOB is the business management platform behind a large share of Australian and New Zealand SMEs. Across multiple engagements we delivered its commercial operating leadership: Head of Sales, Head of Services, Support and Success, and group management across sales operations and enablement.
Read case study →VP of Engineering
Myriota
Myriota connects IoT devices directly to its nanosatellite constellation, bringing data back from places terrestrial networks never reach.
Read case study →Head of Product
Rome2Rio
Rome2Rio answers one question better than anyone: how do I get from here to there, anywhere on earth. Following its acquisition by Omio we appointed the Head of Product and the company's commercial leadership.
Read case study →Head of Commercial / Head of Advertising
Rome2Rio
Rome2Rio answers one question better than anyone: how do I get from here to there, anywhere on earth. Following its acquisition by Omio we appointed the Head of Product and the company's commercial leadership.
Read case study →Chief Product Officer
Spenmo
Spenmo's spend management platform raised an $85 million Series B led by Tiger Global.
Read case study →Global SVP Sales & Marketing
SiteMinder
SiteMinder is an Australian hotel commerce platform, connecting accommodation providers with the online channels their guests book through.
Read case study →CEO + Director of Growth Marketing
Genbook
Genbook is an online booking and scheduling platform for appointment-based service businesses.
Read case study →Chief Revenue Officer
6Clicks
6Clicks is an Australian governance, risk and compliance software company serving enterprises and advisory firms internationally.
Read case study →Chief Executive Officer (Global)
Education Perfect
Education Perfect is a New Zealand founded education technology company providing online teaching and learning tools to schools internationally.
Read case study →Chief Executive Officer (Global)
Tribe
Tribe is an Australian founded influencer marketing platform connecting brands with content creators.
Read case study →Chief Executive Officer
Oneflare
Oneflare is an Australian online marketplace connecting customers with local service businesses.
Read case study →Chief Operating Officer
Hireup
Hireup is an Australian online platform connecting people with disability to support workers of their choosing.
Read case study →Chief Executive Officer
Fergus
Fergus is a New Zealand founded job management software company serving trade and field service businesses.
Read case study →Chief Information Security Officer
Yapstone
Yapstone is a US payments company processing rent and marketplace transactions at scale, where a security failure is a business failure.
Read case study →Vice President, Technical Operations
Duo Security
Duo Security built two-factor authentication into a product that enterprises actually used, and was later acquired by Cisco.
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