Tony Faure

Former CEO of ninemsn & first managing director for Yahoo! Australia. Active investor in growth stage digital companies.

Tony joined Pollenizer in 2011. He chairs the Pollenizer Global board and provides strategic advice, mentoring support to the CEO and management team, customer and partner introductions, and specific help for some of Pollenizer Global’s portfolio companies.

Tony is an active investor in growth stage digital companies. He is currently Chairman of Torque Data, The Sound Alliance and Stackla – and a Non-Executive Director of oOh! Media, Private Media and biNu in addition to his Pollenizer role. Previously he was the first Managing Director for Yahoo! Australia, later Regional Vice President for South Asia for Yahoo!, and CEO of ninemsn. He has also served on the boards of Seek, iSelect and AIBM (publisher of Business Spectator and Eureka Report) – and is a long time member of the Advisory Board for the Starlight Children’s Foundation.

Pru Quinlan

With more than 25 years experience, Pru is a multi-award winning consultant who has worked with well established brands, NASDAQ listed companies, industry associations and some of Australia’s most entrepreneurial start-ups.

She is the founder and CEO of Einsteinz Communications, a specialist communications consultancy creating engaging and inspiring B2B and B2C campaigns for some of the most dynamic, innovative and interesting technology organisations in our market. Launched some 16 years ago, Einsteinz Communications was one of the first PR consultancies to embrace contemporary work practices which sees many of its staff work remotely and hot desk in teams developed to ensure collaboration across employee skill sets and passions, resulting in client and staff retention rates that far exceed industry best practice.

Previously Pru was Associate Director at MACRO Communications and she worked with Text 100 in the UK when the company was but a glimmer in the founders’ eyes.

Ben Shipley

Managing Director of Spectrum Communications Group, across Sydney, Singapore and reaching out to Asia. Part of the IPMG family

Creating want through compulsive storytelling and commercial tomfoolery. Focused on better measurement and fast moving models for agencies. Currently focused on the audience for #technology

Backgammon tragic and builder of memory castles.

Lapsed cocktail and Premium Spirits blogger. Relentless tester of quality products, occasional judge.

Father of potentially the world’s cutest child. Unsurprising, perhaps, given cuteness of the wife.

Ross Dawson

Ross Dawson is globally recognized as a leading futurist, keynote speaker, entrepreneur, and authority on business strategy. He is the Founding Chairman of five companies including leading future think-tank Future Exploration Network, and the bestselling author of books including the acclaimed Living Networks. Strong global demand has seen him deliver keynote speeches in 27 countries, while frequent media appearances include CNN, Bloomberg TV, SkyNews, ABC TV, Today and Sunrise shows, Washington Post and many others.