GALILEO - Key Persons
Andrew is a multi-time founder, most recently co-founding Zeetings (sold to Canva) and HubSpan (sold to Liaison Technologies). He's an expert on key technology and product decisions.
Job Titles:
- Director at Samsara
- Program Coach
Austin is a Site Director at Samsara, leading sales for one of the fastest growing IoT companies globally. Previously, Austin led sales at Dedrone and Meraki (exited to Cisco) for Asia Pacific where he grew the business from $3m to over $120m in 5 years. Austin brings deep enterprise sales expertise to our teams.
Job Titles:
- Investments & Program Coach
David is part of our investments team and was previously founding Manager at Uber Australia and New Zealand (IPO NSYE) and investor at Draper Fisher Jurvetson (San Francisco) where he advised 17 startups.
Job Titles:
- CEO and Founder of Persollo
- Program Coach
Olga is CEO and founder of Persollo, a leading social ecommerce and analytics platform with customers across 16 countries. Olga brings her expertise in building effective global and remote teams, sales and marketing automation, and fundraising experience to our teams.
Job Titles:
- Founder of Exodus Wear
- Program Coach
Elyse is the founder of Exodus Wear, a leading custom apparel company (sold in 2018). She brings deep expertise in sales, manufacturing and global operations to our startups.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder of LaunchLink
Felicia is the co-founder of LaunchLink, a tech focussed PR firm based across Australia and the US. She has strong media relations in the Australian business and technology sectors and has represented some of the most innovative startups and respected technology companies including Dropbox, Eventbrite, Square, Airtasker, Invoice2go and many more.
Hugh is a builder and co-founder of Galileo. Previously, he founded Sked Social, a marketing platform with over 10,000 customers globally. Hugh has consulted on go-to-market strategy across government, startups and top global brands.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder
- General Partner
James is the Co-founder of Galileo and has supported over 200 founders launch tech startups across various industries since 2012. Previously he founded INCUBATE, a leading university accelerator and worked in global software startups.
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- Co - Founder and CEO at Artesian Alternative Investments
- Fund Advisor
Jeremy the Co-founder and CEO at Artesian Alternative Investments and has over 20 years capital markets experience. He advises Team Galileo on our fund and continued growth in the Asia region.
Jo is the leadership coach for our founders, guiding and supporting their personal success to become better management leaders within their growing teams. Previously Jo was a Director at INCUBATE, growing the team, operations and supporting the founders.
Julia was an early employee at WhatsApp (exited to Facebook) and has worked with hundreds of startups in Silicon Valley including Dropbox and Atlassian. She is brings operational, biz dev, marketing and PR experience to our teams.
Job Titles:
- Head of Platform and Community
Luddy brings her experience helping scale some of Australia's most pivotal startups, Shoes of Prey, Koala and recently global VC Antler, to Galileo's platform offering for founders. Ludweenah specialises in scaling early-stage operations, building high performing teams, and cultivating thriving founder communities.
Luke is part of our investments team and helps with our companies follow-on opportunities. He has led over 400 investments, deploying over $150m in capital across APAC.
Martin is a multi-time founder including founding Playcraft Labs (exited to MinoGames) and advising founders and CTOs. He has helped raise over $200m across Australia and the USA and assisted with 10 acquisitions, to acquirers like Facebook, Zynga and AOL.
Shane has over 20 years experience in leadersship and enterprise technology sales with iconic US vendors, systems integrators, scale-outs and startups (including his own!). He specialises in negotiations of large, complex software sales involving multifuncitonal teams. He also mentors Irish tech startups launching in ANZ.
Zac is a multi-time founder, most recently founding LoungeBuddy, a leading travel app (recently exited to American Express). Zac brings his CTO experience to our teams, including building and leading software teams across San Francisco and Sydney.