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Chair | Entrepreneur, Investor & CEO, Saniel Ventures
Leigh Jasper
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Mr Leigh Jasper is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Firmable, CEO of Saniel Ventures, Chair and Co-Founder of Second Quarter Ventures and a non-executive director of SEEK Ltd, Buildxact and Matrak. He was the co-founder and CEO of Aconex between May 2000 and August 2019. Aconex is the world’s largest provider of online collaboration solutions for the construction and engineering industries.
As Aconex CEO, Mr Jasper led global growth for Aconex, expanding the business into Asia, North America, South America, the Middle East and Europe.
In September 2008, Aconex secured a A$109.5 million funding deal and one of the largest private capital raisings by an Australian technology company. In 2014 the company listed on the ASX. In 2018 Oracle acquired Aconex for $1.6 billion in Australia’s largest technology M&A transaction.
Leigh joined the LaunchVic Board on 1 July 2020.
Special Responsibilities
— Chair of the Board, Member of the Audit, Finance & Risk Sub-Committee and People Sub-Committee
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Managing Director, Government Australia & New Zealand, Aurecon
Aneetha de Silva (MAICD)
Ms Aneetha de Silva is a senior infrastructure executive with over 25 years’ of experience across the government and private sectors in Australia, South Africa and the Asia Pacific. She has particular expertise as an advisor, developer and manager of large infrastructure assets and services, especially in transport, telecommunications and property.
Aneetha is currently Managing Director, Government ANZ for Aurecon Group and a member of Aurecon’s global board. She is also President of Roads Australia and sits on the Boards of LaunchVic, the Melbourne Arts Precinct Corporation and the North East Link State Tolling Corporation.
An active angel investor, she is passionate about innovation, particularly the potential for new technologies to meet emerging customer needs and transform access to community services.
— Chair of the Investment Review Committee and Member of the Alice Anderson Fund Investment Committee.
CEO & Co-Founder, shilo.people | CEO & Founder, pivotnow
Ilona Charles
– Ms Ilona Charles is an experienced executive with an extensive career in human resources, transformation and change across a range of industries.
Ilona has held executive roles with the CSIRO, Aconex, Telstra, Medibank and NAB and is currently the CEO and co-founder of ShiloPeople (shilo.), providing world-class on-demand HR talent and consulting solutions across Australia.
She also founded pivotnow, providing strategic people advice to Founders, CEO’s and Boards of organisations going through significant transition or scaling up.
– Chair of the People Sub-Committee
CEO
Kate Cornick
CFO
Amanda Collins
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COO (Acting)
Peter Goldsworthy
Company Secretary
Shane Morris
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Events Manager
Bronwyn Betro
CivVic Program Coordinator
Jack Charles
Communications Lead
Holly Clark
Executive Officer
Penny Coutts
GM, Research, Evaluation and Reporting
Kat Franks
GM, Communications & Marketing
Kate Gittings
Marketing Campaigns Manager
Mark Knobel
Head of Startup Success
Josh Lipscombe
Startup Programs Manager
Mark Newman
Social Media Lead
Catheryn Pangallo
Grants & Procurement Manager
Rebecca Peart
Administration Lead
Grace Spaulding
Operations Manager
Elena Toh
Data Analyst
Erique Truong
Investment Manager, The Alice Anderson Fund
Michelle Vu
Michelle is Investment Manager for the Alice Anderson Fund
