EXPERIENCE
Chief Operating Officer
Exocule & Winely Ltd
Biotech hardware, software, AI and IoT company. Exocule is a Precision Fermentation data-intelligence platform. Empowering alternative food and product producers with actionable insights to monitor fermentation production at industrial scale. Winely is Exocule's first commercial product to market, servicing the global Wine industry with quality, control and optimisation of their fermentation process. With customers in France, California, Australia and New Zealand. Phase: Startup-to-Highgrowth. FTEs: 20-30 across 4 territories
Head of Product
Movio Ltd (Vista Group NZX:ASX)
Movio is the global leader in marketing data analytics and campaign management solutions (CRM) for the global cinema and feature film industry. Supporting the world’s most comprehensive source of moviegoer data, through machine learning. Its products are designed specifically with the challenges of movie marketing in mind. Movio is a company within the Vista Group International Ltd (NZX/ASX:VGL), Phase: 10 years old & profitable. FTEs: 650 across 5 territories.
Director of Commercial Operations
Soul Machines Ltd
A technology, R&D and product company in the field of Artificial and Emotional Intelligence. Building Artificial Humans with cognitive systems, modelled on the human brain and nervous system, to create a human-like interface for machine-learning interaction. I was the second business hire for Soul Machines and strategised and executed all of the Commercial systems and processes for the team. Closing all commercial deals and partnerships globally with Fortune 500 companies. Phase: Startup-high-growth. FTEs: 20-200 across 8 territories
CEO & CoFounder
Trigger Happy Ltd
My initial background is 6 years in the UK music industry, followed by 7 years in the NZ Film, Television and gaming industries. Before my own startup transitioned into a technology business. Trigger Happy built a B2C gaming platform where everyone and anyone could make their own animated cartoons with world famous characters. We were an award winning NZ Hi-Tech Company and had licensing deals with Jim Henson Company, Valve Corporation, National Geographic, Bravest Warriors and more. With negotiations in progress with Disney and Warner Bros. before an exit to MEA. Phase: Startup. FTEs: 25
General Manager, Commercial Product
Datacom Ltd
Australiasia’s largest home-grown technology company offering Information Technology services, management and consulting, cloud services, ITO, data centre services, custom software development and payroll services. Phase: Established Enterprise. FTEs: 6,000 across 5 territories
Awards & Honours
NZ Hi-Tech Awards
Winner 2013, Pre-Commercialisation
NZ Innovation Awards
Winner 2013, Creative Industries
NZ Womens Entrepreneur Awards
Winner 2014, Creative Industries
Top 50 Women in Global Cinema
Named by Celluloid Junkie 2020
Customers / Partners Secured
Tech Disciplines
Machine Learning
Hardware & IoT
SaaS & HaaS
Impact Tech
B2B | B2C | B2E
Bio-tech
Gaming & Entertainment Tech
Deep Tech