Awards
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2020 Global Techstars Portfolio Founder as CEO & Co-Founder (link) (link)
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2020 Winner #1 EdTech Start-up Global Silicon Valley Competition (link) (link)
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2019 Semi finalist SheEO™ Australia (link)
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2018 Winner #1 Founder in Asia Pacific Start Con (link) (link)
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2018 30 Under 30, SmartCompany Australia (link)
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2016 Winner, OTEC Asia, Best Lifestyle Technology prize for Elanation
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2014 Best Aus Mobile Tech Start-up, $40,000 + 90 day FMCG Immersion – Mondelez International
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2013 Top 50 of Australia's Emerging Leaders Search, The Financial Review BOSS & Sydney University
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2012 SAMSUNG 'Design that Performs 2012' Competition, awarded 2nd Place
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2011 1st Class Honors, Bachelor of Industrial Design, The University of New South Wales
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2011 Scholar of the Built Environment Faculty. 1 of 20 students in the entire UNSW faculty
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2010 International Exchange 1 year scholarship to Aalborg University, Denmark
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2008 UNSW Faculty of the Built Environment Dean’s List for achieving an overall WAM of 80/100
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2007 The UNSW $15,000p/a CO-‐OP Scholarship for Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
Speaking
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July 2024 HER4 Podcast, UK, 5000+ audience (link)
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Feb 2024 Product Leaders Podcast UK, 100+ audience (link)
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April 2021 Mentoring Founders TechReadyWomen, Australia, 250+ audience (link)
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Aug 10 2021 Australian National News TV Interview Exclusive 7 News, Australia, 1M+ audience (link)
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Oct 11 2020 Australian National TV Interview 10 News, Australia 1M+ audience (link)
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Aug 9th 2020 Australian National TV Interview 9 News, Australia 1M+ audience
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Aug 5th 2020 Victoria University Interview, Australia 1000+ audience (link)
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Jul 31st 2020 Keiretsu Forum Australasia, audience 100+ audience (link)
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Jun 25th 2020 Tennis Australia TV Interview 1000+ audience (link)
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Jun 21st 2020 AusBizTV Australia 1000+ audience (link)
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Jun 16th 2020 EdTech Pitch GSV labs, 100+ audience (link)
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Feb 16th 2020 Credit Suisse and Investible, 50+ investors audience (link)
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Mar 28th 2019 Salesforce, 100+ audience (link)
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Oct 22nd 2018 Creatable Panel, 100+ audience (link)
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Aug 29 2018 Muru D, Sydney, 100+ entrepreneurs audience (link)
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July 18 2017 KidTech Conference Silicon Valley, USA, 500+ audience (link)
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June 9th 2019 AnglePitch Panel, Australia, 100+ audience (link)
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May 23 2017 Springboard Enterprises Bootcamp, Australia, 250+ audience (link) (link)
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May 30th 2017 Amazon Web Services Summit New Zealand, 1000+ audience (link) (link)
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April 6th 2017 Amazon Web Services Summit, Australia, 5,000+ audience (link)
Specialities
Digital Technology Innovation, Product vision, product innovation, product design, team leadership, strategy, user research, product development, product marketing initiatives, product analytics and metrics, MVP, MLP, project management, product pricing, competitor analysis, north star generation, business strategy, communication.
Work Experience
HER4
Chief Product Officer
Founder
2024 - Present
https://her4.com/
Sarsen
Chief Product Officer
Partner
2022 - 2024
https://www.sarsen.com/
https://www.light.app/
WeFlex
Non-Executive Board Member
2022 - 2023
https://weflex.com.au/
Digital Creators
Chief Product Officer
2021 - 2022
Digital Creators
Chief Product Officer
2021 - 2022
https://digitalcreators.com.au/
Elanation
CEO and Co-founder
2016 - 2021
https://www.techstars.com/blog/startup-profile/elanation-keeping-kids-active-online-and-offline
Pricewaterhouse Coopers
Venture Lead
2014 - 2015
https://www.pwc.com.au/
Johannes Torpe Studios
Studio Manager
2012 - 2013
http://www.johannestorpe.com/
HER4 is a Hormone Empowerment Resource dedicated to providing women with real-time rapid diagnosis and natural wellness solutions to hormone imbalance symptoms.
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Developing algorithm for rapid diagnosis of PMS symptoms providing personalised matches to natural treatments
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Educational courses on how to optimise lifestyle with four monthly phase living
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Published HER4 podcast with weekly global expert interviews. Jul 2024 5000+ views YouTube (link)
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Design and manufacture of Seed cycling food line (link)
SARSEN™ is a technology company dedicated to expanding individual and collective consciousness to improve global mental health outcomes.
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Invention of "Mindfulness Circuits™" (link)
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Led design, build and launch of www.light.app/
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Average 60+% positive shift in user emotion post using Light
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100% retention of international B2B clients
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B Corp Certification (link)
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Clients: Google (Singapore), Accenture (USA), Pizza Hut (UK)
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$2M+ in investment raised (link)
WeFlex is the first web platform to connect people with a disability to fitness professionals at scale.
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Assisting executive directors and acting in the interest of the company stakeholders
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Advising in Product related developments
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80% growth in clients (happy active matches) = more people with disability getting active and improving their quality of life. (link)
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65% growth in active trainers = more fitness professionals educated and proactively helping the fitness industry become more inclusive (link)
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84% faster speed of service = reduced waiting time to match, so families and service providers can get started quicker and easier. (link)
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Went from operating from 0 to 4 out of 6 states in Australia (link)
A venture studio building several different innovative companies in rapid succession. We help develop the ideas while simultaneously investing capital and leading the design and build of final products.
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As CPO my role includes leadings teams of engineers, designers and project managers to design and build new products across a range of industries.
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Select ventures include;
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Sixth Element - A carbon credit exchange
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WeFlex - A portal matching people with a disability to fitness professionals
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Light - A new operating system for consciousness
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A SaaS mobile application with connected sports watch.
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Raised $US1,5000,000 from international investors (link) (link)
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Led product team and strategy;
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310% quarterly revenue growth, Oct 2020
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82% of subscribers renewed at the end of their monthly billing period, iOS, Nov 2020.
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65% free trial to paid subscriber conversion rate, iOS, Oct 2020.
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Ranked top 10 apps for Kids aged 9-11years in 10 countries including USA and Australia.
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Negotiate and secure partnership deals with corporations, influencers, employees and contractors.
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Secured most decorated USA Athlete, Dara Torres as Brand Ambassador and managed USA satellite media tour spanning 30+ USA National TV and radio stations resulting in 1+million impressions in 4 days. (link)
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Led corporate governance with monthly investor reports, chair quarterly board meetings, annual financial reviews.
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Secured Elanation as a global Techstars Portfolio company (less than 1% of start-ups globally are selected) (link) (link)
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Won 7 International awards including #1 EdTech Start-up, Global Silicon Valley Competition, USA, Feb 2020 (link) (link)
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Secured National retail distribution deal with Rebel Sport, retailing company hardware in 150 retail stores, generating $250,000 in year 1.
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Amazon Web Services Keynote speaker, 5,000 audience members 2017 (link) (link) (link)
The second largest professional services network in the world.
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Lead workshops in defining Problems Worth Solving for clients to inspire transformation. Clients include Commonwealth Bank Australia, NRMA.
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Curate the PwC ‘Disruption in Health’ Forum 2015
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Conceptualise and drive Fintech Fortnight, a two-week program to catalyse the development of globally competitive financial technology solutions in Sydney. Includes project management of all stakeholders, develop communication strategies for various sponsors i.e CBA, Westpac, ABA, ASX, etc. Lead team weekly WIPS’s and monthly acceleration presentations to keep vision and strategy aligned across departments.
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Surface innovative venture ideas for PwC Ventures.
A multi-disciplinary design studio based in Copenhagen, Denmark. At the time, Johannes Torpe was the Creative Director of Bang & Olufsen.
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Managed the studio team through the successful design and build of Bang & Olufsen's most technologically advanced flagship store in Beijing, China.
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Contributed to defining a product vision and strategy for Bang & Olufsen's new B&O PLAY sub brand.
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Improved employee work efficiency rates and quality of deliverables.
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Key communicator between client, engineers, and manufacturers to ensure project briefs were being followed.
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Successfully facilitated the demerger of JTS, working with lawyers and accountants to establish the new legal company, bank accounts and resource lists.
Education
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL
Executive Education
2024
TECHSTARS
Accelerator
2020 - 2021
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA
Bachelor of Industrial Design
2007 - 2011
AALBORG UNIVERSITY,
DENMARK
International Study Exchange
2010 - 2011
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
2006 - 2007
Executive Education: Health & Wellness Designing a Sustainable Nutrition Plan. Evidence-based understanding of nutrition, lifestyle medicine and behaviour change for sustained wellness.
Techstars is an American seed accelerator founded in Boulder, Colorado. As of 2019, the company had accepted over 1,600 companies into its programs with a combined market capitalization of $18.2bn USD. Fewer than 1% of applicants are accepted.
Elanation was one of ten international companies selected to participate in the globally acclaimed TECHSTARS Accelerator program.
The Techstars SportsTech Melbourne Accelerator focused on early-stage sports technology companies that aimed to disrupt and drive innovation in high performance sport, grassroots participation, as well as event and media technology.
Achieved First Class Honours.
Placed on the UNSW Faculty of the Built Environment Dean’s List for achieving an overall WAM of 80/100.
In this degree Katherine learned design process, visual communication, technology and materials, market research, ergonomics, research methods and professional practice.
Elective subjects chosen were in innovation and entrepreneurship.
Katherine was the first International undergraduate student ever accepted to attend this acclaimed university in engineering and design.
Major Subjects: Product Service Systems, Integrated Product Design, Design Construction, Biomimicry
Two semester exchange. Classes were taught in Danish, Katherine learn't the language simultaneously while taking the above subjects.
Awarded the UNSW $15,000 p/a CO-OP Scholarship for both Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering
Presented with the Graham Painton First Prize for Cost Effective Manufacturing. This prize was awarded for a Steel Hydraulic Pump designed by Katherine and three fellow students.
Major subjects included:
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Computing - Distinction
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Introduction to Engineering Design and Innovation - High Distinction
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Mathematics 1A - Credit
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Physics 1A - Pass
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Mathematics 1B - Pass
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Engineering Materials and Chemistry - Credit
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Design and Manufacturing - Distinction
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Engineering Mechanics - Pass