Ben N.

Co-Founder

Australia30 yrs 1 mo experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • First Atlassian business hire, scaling from $1M to $1B.
  • Expert in category design and product market fit.
  • 15 years of experience in sales and marketing leadership.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS marketing and growth expert with extensive leadership experience.

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Skills

Other Skills

Online MarketingDemand GenerationMarketing StrategyStrategy DevelopmentTechnology EvangelismEntrepreneurial SkillsE-commerceDigital MarketingOnline AdvertisingMarket ResearchSocial Media MarketingPublic RelationsProduct MarketingAcquisition IntegrationBlogging

About

WAS: First Atlassian biz hire, scaling ops, sales & marketing from $1M > $1B NOW: Co-Founder. Investor. Advisor. Marketer. Mentor. Dad. Husband STILL: Student. Country-kid. Environmentalist. Nerd I love investing in and advising high potential, high growth startups, helping with category design, product market fit, marketing, scaling, traction and growth, sharing my lessons learned from 1.5 decades at Atlassian. Previously spent 15 years at Atlassian, coming in as first Atlassian business hire and one of two ‘lieutenants’ to founders where I was focused on all GTM (website, inside sales, product marketing, promotion, channel program) & scaling operations (customer support, ecommerce, process automation, knowledge base, scaling technical support, NYC office expansion, EULA & pricing) to $10m. Lead sales & marketing (commerce, sales operations, customer service, renewals/success, pre-sales, acquisition integration, SF office expansion, exec team member) to $50m in Sydney. Headed Demand Generation in San Francisco to $100m. Moved to Amsterdam to run EMEA Sales & Marketing through to $300m. Returned to San Francisco to run International Marketing through to $1b. Previous experience in Management Consulting (Cambridge Technology Partners & Novell), Investment Banking (Malaysian/Chinese Family Office), Digital Production & Management (ninemsn & Village Roadshow), Web Development & Entrepreneurship (multiple projects during DotCom).

Experience

30 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
4 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
3 yrs 2 mos
Current Experience

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Co-Founder

Apr 2023Present · 3 yrs 2 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Enterprise fund

Co-Founder & General Partner

Jul 2019Present · 6 yrs 11 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Atlassian

4 roles

International Marketing Director

Promoted

Jan 2013Jul 2018 · 5 yrs 6 mos

Sales & Marketing Director (EMEA)

Aug 2010Jan 2013 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Demand Generation Director

Promoted

Aug 2008Aug 2010 · 2 yrs

Sales Director (Global)

Aug 2003Jul 2008 · 4 yrs 11 mos

Novell

Strategy & Business Development Consultant

Aug 2001Jul 2003 · 1 yr 11 mos · Sydney, Australia

Union pacific investments (asia-pacific)

Entrepreneur-In-Residence (EIR)

Feb 2000Jul 2001 · 1 yr 5 mos · Sydney, Australia

Ninemsn

Sales & Marketing Production

Jan 1999Feb 2000 · 1 yr 1 mo · Sydney, Australia

Village roadshow

Online Producer

Dec 1997Dec 1998 · 1 yr · Sydney, Australia

Fresh creations

Founder & CEO

Jan 1995Dec 1997 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Lismore, Australia

Education

Stanford University

Managing Innovation

Jan 2010Jan 2010

Financial Services Institute of Australasia (FINSIA)

Masters Of Applied Finance — Corporate Finance/Advisory

Jan 2009Jan 2010

Securities Institute of Australia (SIA)

Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance & Investment — Corporate Finance

Jan 2002Jan 2004

Southern Cross University

Bachelor of Business — Marketing & Media Communications

Jan 1995Jan 1997

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