Founder Institute Mentors

Australia Summer 2024

Founder Institute Mentors join weekly feedback sessions, host office hours, and in general provide you feedback every step of the way. In addition, through our Equity Collective, Mentors are invested in the success of your company both during and after the program.

See the list of current and past mentors for the Australia program below.

Mentors

Alex Samson

Founder & CEO, dvhb

Alex Guyer

Partner Firemark Ventures, Associate Partner Black Nova Venture Capital

Amit Verma

Senior Manager, Listings, ASX

Anna Cheng

Head of Growth Marketing, Turo Australia. Ex HealthMatch Ex Brighte Ex Spaceship

Anne Moore

Work Futurist. Creator of Now to Next: Frames for the New Way We Work, Ex-CEO, Plando

Anne Marie Elias

chief disrupter, Founder, PrimeLife Partners, innovating longevity & care

Annie Le Cavalier

Venture Partner, FI and Former GM & Community, Stone & Chalk

Ati Aziz

Growth Marketer, ClearCalcs

Ben Pecotich

Design & Innovation Director/Founder, Dynamic4

Benjamin Ranck

Principal, MacroReactor

Bill Trestrail

Venture Partner, Black Nova Venture Capital

Brendan Yell

Former Director, Twilio Startups

Caroline Lepron

CEO & Founder, Skoutli

Chris Clark

Serial Entrepreneur , Teem Inc

Christopher Krainer

Director of Hardware Engineering at Zoomo, & co-founder at rk-collective.com

Dane Eldridge

Founder & CEO, StackUp www.stackup.tech

David Kenney

Director, Start Growth Pty Limited

David Isaac

Venture Building & Growth Strategy, Causality

Dylan Mc Donnell

CEO, Foodini

Erwin Van Der Koogh

Founder/CEO, Linc

Evan Wong

CEO & Co-Founder, Checkbox.AI

Greg Campbell

entrepreneur, former Ops Director, information security specialist, Current Head of InfoSec and Compliance

Jo Ann Suchard

A/Prof, Sydney Angels & University of New South Wales

Joanne Jacobs

Co-CEO, Disruptor's Handbook

Jonathan Greechan

Co-Founder & CEO, Founder Institute

Jonathon Wilkinson

Co-founder, Equitise

Kevin Whitmore

CEO & Founder, www.getcashbucket.com

Leila Alem

Chief Innovation Officer, ArcSense

Marshall Hughes

Freight Manager, Freight Companies Australia

Matthew Browne

Co-Founder @Upflowy upflowy.com, @Donesafe donesafe.com, @Whispli, Investor @Black Nova Group etc

Maz Zaman

Managing Partner, HyperScaled

Michelle Gilmore

CEO, heyjuno.co

Nhat Nguyen

CEO, Otrafy

Oliver Ranck

Co-Founder | CMO | Exec Director, Future Neutral | MYSALE | Octomedia

Paul Wenck

Chair, Co-Founder Checkbox

Paul Grimes

CTO & Founder, OK200

Rajeev Gupta

Managing Partner, Alium Capital

Rebecca Dooley

Partner, Addisons

Roger Do

CEO, Co-Founder, Watchdog Cyber Defense

Roman Kovalenko

Chief Data Officer, Reserve Bank of Australia

Ron Hill

Managing Director, sunramp.co

Ryan Cross

Manager for Prototyping, AWS, ANZ & APAC

Sameer Babbar

Director, SVB Group

Scott Crowe

Lead Recruiter, Canva

Sean Geoghegan

Cofounder and former-CTO, Sendle, Tech and People Leader, Iconoclast.

Simon Turner

Founding Partner, Groundbreaking, Managing Director, FI Ghana

Tal Rotbart

Former Chief Technology Officer, Marketplacer (until Oct-‘23)

Tomaj Bayat

Growth, beforepay.com.au

Vanessa Ronan Pearce

Head of Growth, Wych Money

Vern Chan

Certified Startup Coach, Your Pivot

William Mc Cahey

Partner, Think & Grow, and Growth Advisor

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