Growth Enablement to Execution
TEAM
Sundar Iyer
Managing Director & CEO
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Experience: Founder, MD & CEO of Emertel. 25+ years commercialising emerging technology / data / cloud / AI / IoT solutions from Nokia, HPE and Telstra in Asia-Pacific with > $1B in value creation and 2 exits.
Education: B.E(EEE)(1st Hons) (Auck) MBA (Exec) (Dist) UNSW)
Languages: English, French, Tamil
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
Jay Shah
Global Growth Operations
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Experience: 15+ years as an agile program/project manager/scrum-master across multiple verticals (Bupa, AusNet, Telstra) in the USA, India and Australia.
Education: Bachelor of Engineering (Gujarat University) MBA (MBS)
Languages: English, Gujarati, Hindi
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
Chris Panopoulos
Energy, IoT, Business Development &
End to End (E2E) Product Development
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Experience: 15 years + experience in Industrial engineering, product development and business development in energy, manufacturing, IoT and B2B offerings for Energy Australia, Itron, Virta and Porsche.
Education: Masters degree from Central Saint Martin UAL London in Industrial Engineering
Languages: English & Greek
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Sang Soo Jeong
Telecommunications, Electronics Manufacturing, Edge Computing, NFV/SDN
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Experience: 25+ years leading teams in Communication, Entertainment Solutions, Sales Management, Telecommunication and Device Manufacture and Business Strategy at HPE.
Education: Masters Engineering (Computer Science)
HanYang University, Seoul
Languages: Korean, English
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Location: South Korea (Seoul)
Yoshio Matsunaga
IoT/M2M, AI, Digital Marketing, VR/AR, Wearables, Embedded, Digital Education
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Experience: Helped >10+ high-tech start-ups successfully enter the Japanese market.
Education: Double major in Entrepreneurship and Industrial Organizational Psychology, City University of New York
Languages: English & Japanese
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Location: Tokyo, Japan
Kim Giliam
Biotechnology
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Experience: 20+ years commercialising biotechnology in major global markets
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Education: B.Sc (Hons) (Monash) MBA (Entrepreneurship and Leadership) (QUT)
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Languages: English
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Location: Brisbane, Australia
Raj Ramanujam
Customer Experience Management
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Experience: 25+ years in customer experience management and contact center strategy to execution, team leadership
Education: Bachelor of Engineering (Industrial)(Pune) MBA (Massey, NZ)
Languages: English, Hindi, Tamil & Marathi
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Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Kalyan Dasgupta
Senior Commercial Advisor
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Experience: 28 years’ experience in both financial and management accounting, with strong commercial acumen to drive business growth and strategic pursuit leadership. Total deal signings of >$2.5 billion in Australia/NZ region over the last 14 years.
Education: CA (Aus), FCCA, ACMA, CGMA, CPA, BBus(Acc) Com
Languages: English, Bengali
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
Mark Netto
Clean Energy Business Development
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Experience: 23+ years in Sales, Business development and Entrepreneurship, with the last 15 years working in the Energy Sector across Europe, EMEA, Asia and Australia.
Education: B.E(Mech)(1st Hons), SCEM
Languages: English
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Location: Melbourne, Australia & Singapore
Sami Makelainen
Emerging Technologies
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Experience: 25+ years in emerging technologies and Horizon 2/3 trends from Finland, United States and Australia.
Education: MSc Computer Science (University of Helsinki)
Languages: English, Finnish
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
Alvin Tan
Business and Partner Ecosystem Development
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Experience: 10+ years in business and partner ecosystem development for platform companies in the logistics, healthcare, privacy management and cloud domains.
Education: BBA (Marketing, Entrepreneurship)
(University of Missouri)
Languages: English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Malay
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Location: KL, Malaysia
Indika (Indi) Liyanage
Oil & Gas and Energy Transitions
Business Development
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Experience: 23+ years in engineering, sales and business development in Oil & Gas / LNG, Petrochemical, Power and Energy Transitions in Australia, NZ, PNG and South East Asia.
Education: B.Eng (Electrical & Electronic) (Hons), B.Com (Operations Management)
Languages: English, Sinhalese
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Location: Brisbane, Australia
Ilya Joel-Pitcher
Digital transformation leader and cloud technologist
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Experience: Experienced leader with 25+ years in technology industry, specializing in technology-enabled transformation. Demonstrable track record for delivering results across sales, product management, advisory and services delivery at Infosys, Wipro, DXC and HP.
Education: BSc (Physics)(Melb)
Languages: English
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
Raji Aiyer
Innovator and Entrepreneur in Residence
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Experience: With a deep passion for technology and a strong entrepreneurial spirit, I am committed to driving innovation and transforming the way people interact with the world around them via digital experiences in COO, CFO and Co-Founder roles.
Education: Masters Mgmt (Monash) Entrepreneurship (Stanford)
Languages: English, Tamil
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
Mohit Dutta
Solicitor and Legal Advisor​
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Experience: 4+ years as a Lawyer helping businesses with legal matters related to corporate, commercial, data, and technology operations.20+ years in IT as a Senior Architect and Technology Strategist leading the implementation of enterprise solutions for HPE, IBM, Telstra, Medtronic, NAB Bank, ANZ Bank, and the Australian government sector.
Education: Juris Doctor (UNE)(NSW)
Languages: English
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Location: Perth, WA, Australia