Our Advisors
Meet The Team
Meet our exceptional team of Advisors and Superstars, where passion meets expertise, shaping the foundation of our success and driving transformative results for our valued partners and clients.
I'm passionate about helping company builders grow and create market-leading products for global audiences. I know how hard and lonely the journey can be. I had amazing advisors when I was CEO'ing, and now I aim to do that for others on the journey.
Ken Shaw
2 x CEO/Founder. B2B Software expert. Works with CEOs, Founders and Private Equity.
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Expertise:
Strategy, AI, Growth, Product & Technology, Private Equity, M&A
Bio:
Ken Shaw is an experienced entrepreneur and two-time Founder & CEO. During his 15 years in California, he built and scaled two venture and private equity-backed SaaS companies, driving them to market leadership in their respective industries.
As a Founder/CEO Ken raised $40M USD in capital, led multiple acquisitions, and played a pivotal role in the creation of two software categories: consumer cloud backup and enterprise Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS). Ken's two products have generated more than $100M in revenue, and won awards from Gartner, Forrester and others.
Ken has also worked on the buy-side in private equity and advised on multiple PE transactions, both buy-side and sell-side.
Ken now works with CEOs and Founders at both the start-up and scaleup stage helping them with strategy, product innovation, capital raising and exit planning. Ken also works with private equity, providing transaction support and invests through Shaw Investments.
I love working with startups who are bravely imaging a better future and driving towards it with technology.
Beatriz Infante
4 x CEO. Board Chair (NASDAQ listed). Works with CEOs and Private Equity.
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Expertise:
Strategy, Product & Technology, Raising Capital, Private Equity, M&A
Bio:
Award-winning Board Director and former 4X CEO specializing in leading global technology businesses to high growth and profitability. Beatriz currently sits on multiple Boards, including several Nasdaq listed companies.
Beatriz is a Silicon Valley stalwart and digital transformation expert with vast experience in enterprise software, SaaS, big data, and cybersecurity. Beatriz ran multi-billion P&L at Oracle and went on to run several successful software companies (both private and public).
Currently Chairman of BusinessExcelleration and board member of prominent companies, including Ribbon Communications and Liquidity Services. Beatriz is recognized in the industry and a trusted advisor to CEOs and Private Equity for her keen insights. She also teaches at Stanford University in the Business School.
I've been working in technology for a long time, and yet I continue to be amazed and excited at how the rate of innovation is increasing. GenAI is a prime example, its ability to reduce cost and improve outcomes at the same time is incredible.
Stephen Wu
3 x CPTO. Large-scale Software Expert. Fractional Chief Product & Technology Officer. Works with CEOs and Founders.
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Expertise:
AI, Product & Technology, People, Strategy
Bio:
Stephen Wu is a business-oriented Product & Technology leader with diverse experience in ranging from large global consulting companies to product-led startups and scaleups.
Stephen has led global engineering teams, in APAC and Europe with full P&L responsibility. His experience spans multiple industries including insurance, banking, governance, wagering, cloud storage, and cyber-security.
Stephen has a long track record of achieving exceptional product & technology results within constrained budgets. Building high-quality engineering functions in low cost markets has become an area of specialisaiton and interest for Stephen.
For example, As Chief Technology Officer at SOS Online Backup, he built a system that supported more than a million connected devices world-wide. He did this with a team in Eastern Europe that cost 80% less than it's Australian counter-part. SOS went on to win seven PC Magazine Editor's Choice awards.
Stephen is available for AI and Technology strategy engagements, and as a Fractional Chief Product & Technology Officer.
Nearly all failures and successes can be attributed to communication, and good communication is a never ending cycle of listening, learning from mistakes and doing the work to make the next step better than the last. Always improving, always innovating.
Derek Wood
2 x Head of Product. Technical and commercial Product Leadership. Works with CEOs, Founders and Product teams to design and build products customers love.
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Expertise:
AI, Growth, Product & Technology, Cyber-Security
Bio:
Derek Wood is an experienced Product Leader with a deep background in product management and product marketing. Derek has led teams on both the technical product management side as well as product marketing. With a background in secure storage, cyber-security and big-data he equal parts business strategist and technical product leader.
Derek is a seasoned Head of Product with 15 years of product leadership at various software companies in the USA.
Derek has deep experience in cyber-security, having worked at three separate cyber-related software companies helping to design and build their product set.
Derek was a core member of the team at Infrascale helping to propel Infrascale to market leadership as a start-up challenging IBM and Microsoft and instrumental in Infrascale being named Gartner Magic Quadrant "Cool Vendor" and "Leader".
CEO/President/COO of eight different tech companies spanning 25+ years. Founded, grew, and sold an Inc 500 company.
Mike Bell
3 x CEO. Deep experience in software. Works with CEOs and Founders.
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Expertise:
Strategy, Raising Capital, AI, Private Equity, M&A, Growth
Bio:
Mike Bell, a seasoned tech CEO and entrepreneur with a 25-year track record, excels in scaling tech firms for high-growth and operational efficiency. Expertise includes team building, Go-To-Market strategy, and capital management.
I grow businesses and love the challenge of doing it. I’ve have had some great success delivering measurable and sustainable growth in both start-up and established organizations, including building and successfully exiting my own business. I’ve now share my many lessons both the wins and the losses.
Davide DeVellis
Former CEO/Founder. CMO and GTM leader. Works with CEOs, Founders and established companies launching new ventures.
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Expertise:
Strategy, Growth, Demand
Bio:
Davide is a dynamic marketing and revenue leader who excels in driving growth. With 20 years of experience scaling technology companies in the USA and Australia, Davide understands which levers to pull at every stage of a venture's growth - from helping gain initial traction through to pivoting existing products into new markets.
He co-founded and sold ReviverSoft, a company focused on performance optimization for Windows end-points. Davide led PC Tools' US business and was instrumental in their $400M exit to Symantec, having earlier played a vital role in eisa's IPO on the ASX.
Davide focusses on leveraging the power of people and technology to accelerate business growth, with a strong focus on execution and accountability. He's worked across B2C, B2B and B2B2C market segments, and has working knowledge and experience in global markets including the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific.
His expertise spans go-to-market strategies, digital marketing, and global markets. Outside work, he's a triathlete, father to two very active boys and a startup advisor.
CEO at EFQM.
Management guru. Former banker. 25 yrs consulting at the highest levels.
Russell Longmuir
2 x CEO. Transformation leader. Works with CEOs, Boards and Private Equity.
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Expertise:
Strategy, M&A
Bio:
Experienced transformation leader and CEO with expertise in advising tech startups worldwide on sales, marketing, business models, and fundraising. Consulting partner with extensive experience in digital transformation, regulation, risk, and strategy across various industries. Also, a qualified executive coach and organizational consultant.
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