Mar 2022 – Present · 4 yrs

Mar 2022 – Feb 2023 · 11 mos · New Zealand

Jun 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 9 mos

Jun 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 9 mos

Feb 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 1 mo · Auckland, New Zealand

• Kiki.nyc , NextWork, Cotiss, ivo.ai, KiwiFibre Innovations, VXT, Polymath, HealthMatch, RingRadar, Cropsy, SugarWallet, Aquila Earth and more. This is New Zealand's future. It is a privilege to be part of their journey. Supporting incredible brave Kiwi founders charting a better world for all of us.
• PhaseOne Ventures is a New Zealand focussed venture firm. We believe that New Zealand founders are world class and with support from "been there done that" advisors can build world changing companies. We commit to founders helping them lay the foundations for truly high growth companies. We do this by helping to get to product market fit, crystallise a vision and identify growth engines. We also help with company building (people strategies) but the focus are those first three steps. We provide this support pro bono and will invest into the companies that make good progress on those first three steps. We believe that by helping these companies grow, it creates even more opportunity for all New Zealanders.
• We have a community first approach. We are an early stage founder community first and foremost.
• Our vision is an even happier New Zealand.

Nov 2020 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos · Auckland, New Zealand

• Voted one of the most valuable mentors in first cohort.

Apr 2020 – Dec 2020 · 8 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• . Contract role to partner with the CEO and worked with the board, setting up for scale
• . Oversight of all aspects of Operations - People Operations and Finance & Legal
• . Set up company Operating System - a close loop system to continuously improve People Operations and Finance & Legal
• . Manager training, feedback training, embedded OKRs into the organisation
• . Brought on board Head of Engineering, People Lead and Head of Operations - setup leadership team

Jun 2017 – May 2020 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Sydney, Australia

• . Part of executive leadership team
• . People strategy at Airtasker
• . Oversight of all aspects of People Operations - Talent Acquisition, Team Happiness (HR), Vibe (Workplace management) - built global team
• . Setting up and executing human resource procedures globally
• . Organisational change management, reorganisation, leadership training, inclusivity training, capital allocation
• . Led efforts to reach profitability, eventuating in going pubilc
• . Supporting company and product strategy

Jan 2015 – Jun 2017 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Surry Hills

• . Early leader at Canva (#25)
• . People and Ops strategy at Canva
• . Built global TA team for recruitment across all Canva functions and regions
• . Connecting employee job activity to the voice of the customer
• . Setting up and leading global People team and executing people strategy globally
• . Supporting founders as part of lead team in critical decisions across the business (product, growth)
• Make Canva the best place to work at, in the world.

Jul 2013 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos · Sydney

• Ureferjobs was a bootstrapped startup. Exited pre seed funding round.
• Ureferjobs was a job referral marketplace. Our vision was to create a world where finding talent is effortless.
• As CEO and co-founder responsible for: product ideation-development, sales, UX, finance, team, investor relations and taking out the trash. :)
• A truly wonderful and invaluable learning experience.

Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 · 2 yrs · Sydney, Australia

• Responsible for ensuring business processes were aligned with customer satiscation. Reporting directly into the CEO; this involved
• (1) owning all business processes; nationally within the organisation
• (2) audits which checked and maintained that processes were consistently optimised
• (3) board level presentations around business metrics and customer satisfaction surveys
• (4) working on critical strategy projects

Jun 2011 – Jun 2012 · 1 yr · Sydney, Australia

• Working on multiple strategy projects inculding:
• (1) Merger between two of NSW largest public sector entities; this involved creating a PMO office and steering the merger through the change program
• (2) Benchmarking and optimisation exercise for one of Australia's largest electricity companies
• (3) A variety of strategic projects across organisational design across the HR landscape in various industries and company sizes

Jun 2011 – Jan 2012 · 7 mos

Jan 2010 – Mar 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos · Sydney, New South Wales

• MBA at the Australian Graduate School of Management.
• Awarded a scholarship for the programme. Class President. Received MBA Integritas Award (AGSM's most prestigious award for students).

Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 · 1 yr

Jan 2005 – Jan 2008 · 3 yrs · Tokyo, Japan

Jun 2004 – Jul 2005 · 1 yr 1 mo · Auckland, New Zealand