Spotlight: Australia

Spotlight Interview: Gordon Logan

Gordon Logan - Sport Clips

Gordon talks about Sport Clips and the success of the franchise model he built.

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Spotlight Interview: David Allen

David Allen - Getting Things Done

David talks about GTD and how it can help you, your business, and your success.

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Spotlight Interview: Chris Babel

Chris Babel - TRUSTe

Chris provides great information about online privacy and what you can do for your business.

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Sep20

Ivan Lim
Ivan Lim
Vinspi
Founder & Managing Director

Vinspi is an online retailer of custom tailored clothing for men. Instead of going on long shopping mall trips trying to find off the rack clothes that fit right, Vinspi allows men to purchase personally tailored clothing that fits their individual shape from the comfort of home.

MO: How has your background and experience contributed to the vision and development of Vinspi so far?

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Sep11

Mary Brittain White
Mary Brittain-White
Retriever Communications
Founder

Retriever Communications was founded in 1996 by Mary Brittain-White to be a company solely focused on wireless field automation technology. The company was able to attract significant institutional funds for intellectual property development and today has ING, Venture Capital Partners, Momentum Fund and ADI amongst its shareholders. [1].

With success secured in Australia, Retriever and its partner network moved to market their wireless field automation solutions around the globe with current offices in Milan Italy, Houston Texas & Sydney Australia.

MO: Where did the idea for Retriever come from? Can you talk about the process from having the initial idea to developing it into a proven platform for your clients?

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Jan21

Modi Song & Melissa Lee
Joe Button Pty Ltd.
Modi Song & Melissa Lee
Co-Founders

Modi Song is a founder of Joe Button and heads up the team’s marketing and website usability. Prior to starting Joe Button, Modi spent six years in Corporate Finance at Deloitte as well as specializing in Financial Services Assurance & Advisory at KPMG. Modi has a degree from the University of New South Wales and is a compulsive globetrotter, having lived and studied at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas in Austin and Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Melissa Lee is also a founder of Joe Button and looks after all the numbers as well as ensuring Joe Button customers get exactly what they want. Melissa has a degree from the University of New South Wales and is a qualified Chartered Accountant having previously worked at Deloitte Corporate Finance. Prior to starting Joe Button, Melissa depleted most of her seed capital travelling extensively throughout Eastern Europe.

Joe Button is a custom dress shirt company that allows both men and women to create their own custom shirts & shirtdresses online and it have it tailored to their exact body measurements. Customers can mix and match all the different elements of a shirt e.g. fabrics, collars, cuffs etc and watch as the 3D model on the site changes in real time.

MO: What inspired you to start Joe Button?

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Jan2

John Persico
John Persico
Vumero
Co-founder &Chief Executive Officer

John is Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Vumero. He holds degrees in Commerce and Law (Hons). John has worked in mergers and acquisitions, private equity and management consulting. He also works together with not-for-profit organizations, including Sudanese Assisted Integrated Learning Program (SAIL) and NEXUS Foundation.

Vumero enables businesses and entrepreneurs to outsource projects and exchange quality templates with Finance professionals, freelancers and advisers from around the world. Vumero addresses a major global problem – that many small businesses and entrepreneurs often lack the time, knowledge and in-house capabilities to understand complex business problems and plan for the future.

MO: Your services allow businesses and entrepreneurs to outsource tasks and exchange templates with finance professionals, freelancers and advisers from around the world. Is Vumero the first company to tackle business issues by combining crowdsourcing with the professional services world? What initially inspired this model?

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May30

jameswester-mo
James Wester

James Wester is a Texan who is now proud to call Australia home.

Over the past 3 years, James and his business partner have invested heavily in the Aussie domain market via their company Pacific Octane. They believe they are now on the cusp of reaping great rewards from their business model.

Today James shares with us their background – and more importantly, where they’re heading to!

Pacific Octane

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May23

netfleet
Mark Lye

Today we talk candidly with Mark Lye, the CEO of Netfleet, Australia’s largest domain name marketplace.

The domain name market in Australia is growing from strength to strength. In terms of maturity, the market is many years behind the “.com” – but all that means is that there are still lots of opportunities!

netfleet

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