Advisory Board
Rebecca Morgan
Advisory Board Member
Rebecca is an experienced investment sales professional with 20 years financial services experience within funds management. Rebecca is currently the Head of Intermediary...Distribution at Cooper Investors and has held senior sales distribution roles across several boutique managers including Perennial, Pengana Capital, PM Capital and Ausbil Investment Management.
Rebecca is passionate about providing best in breed investment solutions to financial advisers, investment platforms, research houses and asset consultants and engaging with investors to understand their needs and building long term relationships with clients.
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Alan Jones
Advisory Board Member
Founder coach and startup investor, Alan has advised hundreds of Australian startups and invested in many of the best. He is currently serving as interim CEO of tech startup community Fishburners. ...Originally a tech journalist and then a content operations producer for Microsoft Sidewalk, Alan was Yahoo!’s first product hire in Australia and went on to become Product Director, South Asia for Yahoo! Inc.
He then was a co-founder and head of content and product development for home entertainment tech startup HomeScreen Entertainment, backed by the Packer family’s CPH, acquired by Quickflix.
Alan was a founding investor in Pollenizer, Startmate and Blackbird Ventures. His startup services agency The New Agency built AAP MediaNet, Autogenie and EmploymentHero before being acquired by BlueChilli in 2012.
His previous investments include Aussie Angels, BindiMaps, Biteable, Bridge, Brieft, Bugcrowd, Buzzy, Canva, Cardly, Edapt, Elevio, Future Super, GeoSnapshot, GOTERRA, HappyCo, Heaps Normal, HEX, Josef Legal, Litecard, Music Health, Muso, Outread, Propeller Aero, Prsnl.ai, Psylo, Rainstick, ResusRight, SimConverse, Tilliter, Workyard, and UpGuard.
Alan has coached founders in startup accelerators including Atto, BlueChilli, Catalysr, Collider, CyRise, Monash University, Moonshot, muru-D, QUT, Remarkable, Startmate, Sydney School of Entrepreneurship, UNSW and UTS.
Most recently, Alan co-hosts The Advisory Board, an advice show for startups, on Disrupt Radio via DAB+ and in your podcast player, with Megan Flamer. Alan is also a general partner with M8 Ventures, a senior advisor with Third Hemisphere, and the chair of Catalysr, an entrepreneurship program focused on marginalised migrants and refugees. He’s also a regular conference speaker, technology guest for News Tonight on ABC2 and Ausbiz has been a contributor to AFR, The Australian, InnovationAus, SmartCompany and StartupDaily.
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Ant Millet
Advisory Board Member
Anthony is a Global Partner at Antler, one of the world's most active early-stage Venture Capital firms, operating out of 28 cities and making c.500 new investments per year. ...Anthony spends most of his time working strategically with Antler’s LPs including Sovereign Wealth Funds, Institutions, Family Offices, Corporates, Wealth Managers and UHNW. In addition, Anthony co-led the establishment of the Australia/NZ operation, operating out of Sydney in 2019, and has backed c. 220 entrepreneurs across more than 100 companies in the region.
Prior to Antler, Anthony was CEO of the Fintech, BrickX. BrickX allows all Australians to easily invest in direct residential real estate by providing proprietary technology and fintech solutions making investments accessible and affordable. Anthony successfully launched the business, raising Series A funding, scaling to over 12,000 investors, and exciting the business in December 2019.
Prior to BrickX and prior to arriving in Australia in 2015, Anthony was the co-founder of European eCommerce company ActivInstinct, which rapidly scaled over 5 years, launching into 9 countries and was acquired by JD Sports Fashion PLC in 2013.
Anthony started his career at UBS Investment Bank London, where he held roles across Investment Banking and Equity Capital Markets divisions.
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Guy Biran
Advisory Board Member
Guy brings more than 28 years of accounting experience to the business and a passion for connecting with some of the most successful people, families and companies in Australia. ...Together, he proudly leads his team of 20 to provide a highly educated and experienced approach to solve a range of matters, with special expertise in complex tax matters and strategies, business development, entity structure and opportunities.
Across his 28 years, Guy has been involved in many high-level and high-profile deals and transactions. His clients include publicly listed ASX companies and he has been involved in above 1.25 billion-dollar mergers and acquisitions along with complex international tax matters.
He is especially proud to work with small to medium clients, including a number of family offices and companies that entrust him to manage high level conflict resolution, due to his trust, integrity and discretion.
Professionally, Guy has spent the last 15 years on a range of business committees, including as director for one of the largest e-commerce groups in Australia. He particularly enjoys working with some of the most future-forward, dynamic and agile businesses and their ways of thinking.
Over his career, Guy is proud to have provided employment and education for more than 140 accountants. For now, work satisfaction comes in the form of looking after his current team of great people and having clients working with him for decades.
Qualifications
• Bachelor of Business Accounting (Monash University)
• Certified Practicing Accountant (CPA)
• Chartered Accountant (CA)
• Master in Taxation - MTax (Monash University)
• Registered Tax Agent (RTA)
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