StartupAus brings on star-studded new board members as group focuses on breaking down barriers for new players

With four new talent-stacked board members, newly appointed StartupAus chair Topaz Conway says the next 12 months for Australia’s leading startup advocacy group “certainly won’t be boring”. But the group acknowledges they have their work cut out for them to make Australia as attractive as possible for both global investment and talent, with those issues […]

Dominic Powell 06 November, 2017

With four new talent-stacked board members, newly appointed StartupAus chair Topaz Conway says the next 12 months for Australia’s leading startup advocacy group “certainly won’t be boring”.

But the group acknowledges they have their work cut out for them to make Australia as attractive as possible for both global investment and talent, with those issues top of mind for the newly refreshed board.

StartupAus announced last week that Blue Sky’s Elaine Stead, ex-500 Startups lead Rachael Neumann, University of Technology Sydney vice-chancellor Attila Brungs, and Startup Catalyst chief executive Aaron Birkby would be joining the group’s board.