Growth Enablement to Execution
TEAM
Sundar Iyer
Managing Director & CEO
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
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Jay Shah
Global Growth Operations
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
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Yoshio Matsunaga
IoT/M2M, AI, Digital Marketing, VR/AR, Wearables, Embedded, Digital Education
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
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Kim Giliam
Biotechnology
Experience: 20+ years commercialising biotechnology in major global markets
Education: B.Sc (Hons) (Monash) MBA (Entrepreneurship and Leadership) (QUT)
Languages: English
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Saravana Mani
Digital Retail Practice Lead /
Executive Advisor
Experience: 25 years leading innovation at Infosys, Cognizant, Future Group and Kmart Group (Kmart, Target, Catch) Australia. Saravana is the recipient of an award for Asia's top 100 Tech leaders (2020) and has authored a book “The Open Innovation Playbook."
Education: BE (Industrial Engineering) (Mysore), MBA (IIM-B), Exec Program in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Technology (MIT Sloan)
Languages: English, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi
Location: Bengaluru, India
Kalyan Dasgupta
Senior Commercial Advisor
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
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Mark Netto
Clean Energy Business Development
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
Location: Melbourne, Australia & Singapore
Sami Makelainen
Emerging Technologies
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
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Alvin Tan
Business and Partner Ecosystem Development
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
Location: KL, Malaysia
Indika (Indi) Liyanage
Oil & Gas and Energy Transitions
Business Development
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
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Mohit Dutta
Solicitor and Legal Advisor
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
Location: Perth, WA, Australia
Jez Franklin
Delivery Executive
Experience: A results-oriented Delivery GM with 25+ years delivering Business and Technology transformation outcomes across dynamic start-ups and established ASX 100 / Fortune 500 companies in the US, Europe and APAC.
Education: CPPD, SAFE SA, PMP, Prince 2, BEng (Hons) Warwick
Languages: English
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Ojas Mehta
Digital Health Practice Lead / Executive Advisor
Experience: Dr. Ojas is an Australian trained Cardiologist (FRACP), sub-specialising in Cardiac Electrophysiology. He has had experience in management consulting (Boston Consulting Group) and has completed a Master of Science in Computational Analytics (Georgia Tech). With his strong interest in big data and machine learning, he works at the intersection of AI/ML and clinical medicine.
Education: MBBS (Melb & Oxford) FRACP, Specialist Cardiologist and General Physician, MS (Analytics)(Georgia Tech)
Languages: English
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Kannan Hariharan
Global FinTech Leader
Experience: Experienced global fintech leader with over 25 years in the industry, recognized for spearheading the establishment of a payment company from inception. This venture successfully secured growth capital from a leading private equity firm and has recently filed for IPO. Angel investor in 15 global start-ups, offering expertise to start-ups on funding, partnerships, and strategies for sustainable growth. Consultant for major fintech corporations, providing guidance on capital raising, cross-border expansion, and supporting M&A endeavors.
Education: BE Mech Engg & MBA NMIMS Mumbai
Languages: English, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, & Kannada
Location: Sydney, NSW Australia